Smartphones have fundamentally changed the way all of us live our lives, but they are also having an increasing impact on the way children grow up – and a new movement is looking to change that.
It is now commonplace for adults to be seen 'glued' to their smartphone screen, be it while walking down the street or 'watching' the TV, it's the first thing most check when they wake up and the last thing they'll look at before they go to sleep at night.
It is not all about what we look at online, a significant part of the shift has been in the way we communicate, with the constant access to social media shaping the way we see the world, and each other. Often framing real-world debate and the divisions that follow. The issue is one that parents across the country have been grappling with as the number of children owning smartphones rises – while parents whose children don't yet have one face constant requests or concerns they are somehow disadvantaging their youngsters by denying them access.
They take a number of forms – the shift of the old-as-time playground bullying to the online forum – with no end to the school day, exposure to graphic and harmful content – be it sexual, violent or a mix of both, as well as the genuine worry of opening up young people to potential harm from predatory sex offenders.
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