{"id":221723,"date":"2024-04-08T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/banning-smartphones-is-tempting-but-it-wont-solve-anxiety-in-children\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:04","slug":"banning-smartphones-is-tempting-but-it-wont-solve-anxiety-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/banning-smartphones-is-tempting-but-it-wont-solve-anxiety-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning smartphones is tempting but it won&#8217;t solve anxiety in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"replace-inline-image\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/03124225\/SEI_198279759.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image alignnone size-full wp-image-2425394 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"PPN7WJ Cologne, Germany. 27th Sep 2018. 27 September 2018, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: Visitors to the Supercandy Pop-Up Museum make selfies in a ball bath. Until 30.12.2018 the 20 walk-in installations can be seen and experienced in the &quot;Made-for-Instagram&quot; exhibition in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd\/dpa Credit: dpa picture alliance\/Alamy Live News\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" data-credit=\"Rolf Vennenbernd\/dpa\/Alamy\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit ArticleImageCaption__Credit--NoTitle\">Rolf Vennenbernd\/dpa\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PANIC is spreading \u2013 in the press and the playground \u2013 about the impact of social media and smartphones on children.<\/p>\n<p>There are many questions around what modern technologies are doing to young minds. Some claim that when we first gave children smartphones, it was the largest uncontrolled experiment humanity ever performed on its own children. That young brains are being rewired, and that social media is responsible for an alarming rise in childhood anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>There has indeed been an increase in anxiety in young people, as we report in our special issue, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26234851-700-the-new-evidence-that-explains-what-anxiety-really-is\/\">\u201cThe new evidence that explains what anxiety really is\u201d\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26234853-900-banning-smartphones-is-tempting-but-it-wont-solve-anxiety-in-children\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rolf Vennenbernd\/dpa\/Alamy PANIC is spreading \u2013 in the press and the playground \u2013 about the impact of social media and smartphones on children. 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