Smartphones
Technology
Mobile phones
Children
Society
New research reveals how app usage affects grades, adding to parents’ worries
about mental health
First, the good news. We middle-aged Brits are no longer condemned to the
conversation- and soul-destroying monomania of debating house prices.
Less good is what has displaced it – an epidemic of angst about when to allow
teenagers a mobile, and what kind. I’m in the “very late and a brick” camp, but
parents end up discussing the options for a smartphone-free childhood,
inevitably, on WhatsApp.
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