Check your child’s phone, say experts

LOCAL child experts have given the thumbs up to an international groundswell of support calling for children to have limited access to smartphones or to delay the age when they have phones of their own.

From the Parents United for a Smartphone Free Childhood campaign in the UK to the latest research by the World Health Organization (WHO), statistics show that apart from cellphone addiction, poor communication skills and cyberbullying, many children have inappropriate contact with adults or other individuals they don’t know through their smartphones.

“In my opinion young children don’t need phones at all,”