{"id":39197,"date":"2025-05-26T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/my-parents-didnt-have-a-clue-why-many-digital-natives-would-not-give-their-kids-smartphones-26\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:06:11","slug":"my-parents-didnt-have-a-clue-why-many-digital-natives-would-not-give-their-kids-smartphones-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/my-parents-didnt-have-a-clue-why-many-digital-natives-would-not-give-their-kids-smartphones-26\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My parents didn\u2019t have a clue\u2019: why many digital natives would not give their kids smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online bullying, violence and paedophilia have made young people sceptical of unfettered access to technology<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, when Sophie* was 12, her classmates sent her \u201cextreme and traumatising\u201d videos that included an al-Qaida beheading, pornography and bestiality. She recalls an adult player in an online game persuading her to meet in person. Although her dad worked in IT, looking back she thinks: \u201cMy parents\u2019 generation simply didn\u2019t have a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now aged 18 and a student at the University of Edinburgh, she wouldn\u2019t allow her children to have a smartphone until they\u2019re adults. \u201cAs a teen I would have been the biggest advocate on everyone having a phone, but I\u2019ve 100% changed my opinion,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/may\/25\/my-parents-didnt-have-a-clue-why-many-digital-natives-would-not-give-their-kids-smartphones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online bullying, violence and paedophilia have made young people sceptical of unfettered access to technology In 2019, when Sophie* was 12, her classmates sent her \u201cextreme and traumatising\u201d videos that included an al-Qaida beheading, pornography and bestiality. She recalls an adult player in an online game persuading her to meet in person. Although her dad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}