Can the dream of smartphone-free childhood ever come true?
by Emily Phillips
Apr 24, 2024
3 minutes
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Just two months ago, Daisy Greenwell reached a point at which she had to decide: would she give her eight-year-old daughter a smartphone, or make her “the weird one” without a mobile? “I thought this Wild West internet problem would be sorted by the time she got to this age,” Greenwell says. “And suddenly I realised her classmates had smartphones. We don’t want to get her one and I didn’t know what to do about it.”
Greenwell is not alone. in a bid to tackle pupils’ smartphone addiction.
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