{"id":824972,"date":"2024-06-22T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=824972"},"modified":"2024-06-22T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:15:32","slug":"should-young-kids-have-smartphones-these-parents-in-europe-linked-arms-and-said-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/22\/should-young-kids-have-smartphones-these-parents-in-europe-linked-arms-and-said-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Should young kids have smartphones? These parents in Europe linked arms and said no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BARCELONA, Spain: Try saying &#8220;no&#8221; when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: &#8220;Everyone has one. Why can&#8217;t I?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But what if no preteen in sight has one &#8211; and what if having a smartphone was weird? That&#8217;s the endgame of an increasing number of parents across Europe who are concerned by evidence that smartphone use among young kids jeopardizes their safety and mental health &#8211; and share the conviction that there&#8217;s strength in numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARCELONA, Spain: Try saying &#8220;no&#8221; when a child asks for a smartphone. What comes after, parents everywhere can attest, begins with some variation of: &#8220;Everyone has one. Why can&#8217;t I?&#8221; But what if no preteen in sight has one &#8211; and what if having a smartphone was weird? That&#8217;s the endgame of an increasing number of parents across Europe who are concerned by evidence that smartphone use among young kids jeopardizes their safety and mental health &#8211; and share the conviction that there&#8217;s strength in numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}