{"id":3044,"date":"2025-08-16T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:39:47","slug":"smartphones-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones and Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in teen suicide, juvenile crime and child anxiety can be traced (at least in part) to the use of smartphones. I have heard child psychiatrists acquaint giving a smartphone to a child  with giving them a heroin needle. So why would a loving parent get one for their kid? The answer, of course, is peer pressure, and a contest of wills between parent and child.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/phones-waiting-parent-groups-jonathan-haidt-awkwardness.html\">\u2018My Fellow Parents Have Betrayed Me\u2019 How it feels when your allies in the fight for a phone-free childhood buy one for their fifth-grader.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The answer, must be legislation. Give parents a break and allow kids to only have &#8220;dumb phones&#8221; until eighth grade. Only if we do this as a culture, do we have a chance at saving out kids. Ohio just passed and is implementing a &#8220;no phones&#8221; in school policy. We will see how that works. If behavior and academics improve, then I see no reason to not implement a kid smart phone ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise in teen suicide, juvenile crime and child anxiety can be traced (at least in part) to the use of smartphones. I have heard child psychiatrists acquaint giving a smartphone to a child with giving them a heroin needle. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3044\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society","category-technology"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}