{"id":17197,"date":"2025-01-10T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/lets-teach-teenagers-how-to-use-smartphones-responsibly-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:37:44","slug":"lets-teach-teenagers-how-to-use-smartphones-responsibly-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/lets-teach-teenagers-how-to-use-smartphones-responsibly-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s teach teenagers how to use smartphones responsibly | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shawna Kay Williams-Pinnock <\/strong>calls for lessons about harmful content and social media literacy,<strong> <\/strong>plus letters from<strong> Stuart Harrington <\/strong>and <strong>Cyndy Etler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/03\/psychiatrist-children-smartphones-mental-health-harm\">As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids\u2019 mental health \u2013 and it\u2019s terrifying, 3 January<\/a>), Dr Emily Sehmer, a UK-based psychiatrist, expressed concerns about the deleterious effects of smartphone use on children. She hopes to keep her children away from such devices and social media until they are 16 years old. She suggests other parents do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Her \u201csheltering\u201d approach may be counterproductive. Some children could source alternative devices and secretly engage with social media. After all, the forbidden is often more enticing. Moreover, a 16-year-old may still be woefully unprepared to navigate online spaces responsibly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/10\/lets-teach-teenagers-how-to-use-smartphones-responsibly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1a724f850d907efb55b86d641302973a6e83de40\/0_189_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f35d1265c2451a9f0447b9a9b3226b1d\" title=\"Let\u2019s teach teenagers how to use smartphones responsibly | Letters\" \/>Shawna Kay Williams-Pinnock calls for lessons about harmful content and social media literacy, plus letters from Stuart Harrington and Cyndy Etler<br \/>\nIn the article (As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids\u2019 mental health \u2013 and it\u2019s terrifying, 3 January), Dr Emily Sehmer, a UK-based psychiatrist, expressed concerns about the deleterious effects of smartphone use on children. She hopes to keep her children away from such devices and social media until they are 16 years old. She suggests other parents do the same.<br \/>\nHer \u201csheltering\u201d approach may be counterproductive. Some children could source alternative devices and secretly engage with social media. After all, the forbidden is often more enticing. Moreover, a 16-year-old may still be woefully unprepared to navigate online spaces responsibly. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawna Kay Williams-Pinnock calls for lessons about harmful content and social media literacy, plus letters from Stuart Harrington and Cyndy Etler In the article (As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids\u2019 mental health \u2013 and it\u2019s terrifying, 3 January), Dr Emily Sehmer, a UK-based psychiatrist, expressed concerns about the deleterious &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/lets-teach-teenagers-how-to-use-smartphones-responsibly-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let\u2019s teach teenagers how to use smartphones responsibly | Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}