{"id":1830,"date":"2024-06-21T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/should-young-kids-have-smartphones-these-parents-in-europe-linked-arms-and-said-no\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T23:27:43","slug":"should-young-kids-have-smartphones-these-parents-in-europe-linked-arms-and-said-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/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>A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 17, 2024. Parents across Europe are rallying to make it normal for young kids to live smartphone-free. From Spain to Ireland and the UK, groups are ballooning on chat groups like WhatsApp and agreeing to link arms and refuse to buy children younger than 12 smartphones. Credit: AP Photo\/Emilio Morenatti 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. <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/should-young-kids-have-smartphones-these-parents-in-europe-linked-arms-and-said-no\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 17, 2024. Parents across Europe are rallying to make it normal for young kids to live smartphone-free. From Spain to Ireland and the UK, groups are ballooning on chat groups like WhatsApp and agreeing to link arms and refuse to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}