{"id":20695,"date":"2025-06-08T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=20695"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:08:42","slug":"no-smartphones-before-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/no-smartphones-before-14\/","title":{"rendered":"no smartphones before 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-indieblocks-like\"><div class=\"u-like-of h-cite\"><p><i>Likes <a class=\"u-url p-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jun\/07\/jonathan-haidt-anxious-generation-smartphones\">\u2018No smartphones before 14; no social media until 16\u2019: The Anxious Generation author on how to fight back against big tech<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/div><div class=\"e-content\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Give them a flip phone, a brick phone, a dumb phone. The key is you want your kids to be able to communicate with their friends, but you don&#8217;t want to give them over to <strong>for-profit companies<\/strong> [whose] goal is to hook your child.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My emphasis, I\u2019ve no real idea if  keeping kids away from smartphones is possible, but I do wonder if alternatives to for-profit companies could be created?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder too if it might be even more important to keep parents of pre schoolers away from their smartphones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give them a flip phone, a brick phone, a dumb phone. The key is you want your kids to be able to communicate with their friends, but you don&#8217;t want to give them over to for-profit companies [whose] goal is to hook your child. My emphasis, I\u2019ve no real idea if keeping kids away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/114646479757800702","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3lr3cizygeq2p"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953],"tags":[1056,1154,1968],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-20695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-childhood","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-smartphones","10":"post_format-post-format-status","11":"kind-article","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5nN","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20696,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions\/20696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20695"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=20695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}