{"id":39699,"date":"2013-08-23T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scotsman_one_in_ten_kids_given_mobile_phone_before_age_five\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T16:30:09","slug":"scotsman_one_in_ten_kids_given_mobile_phone_before_age_five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39699","title":{"rendered":"(Scotsman) One in ten kids given mobile phone before age five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a tenth of children are given a mobile phone before age five, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>A uSwitch.com report found the average child gets their first mobile aged 11 years and eight months \u201d\u201c soon after starting secondary school. But more than a million received a phone before they started primary school.<\/p>\n<p>Parents claim they need to give their child a phone as security in case of emergencies and to give themselves peace of mind. However a children\u2019s organisation warned giving a child their own phone could encourage them to become sedentary, wasting time in front of screens browsing social networks, rather than being active at play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/scotland\/top-stories\/one-in-ten-kids-given-mobile-before-age-five-1-3058645\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a tenth of children are given a mobile phone before age five, new research shows. A uSwitch.com report found the average child gets their first mobile aged 11 years and eight months \u201d\u201c soon after starting secondary school. But<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39699\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,101,199,98,95,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-children","category-england-uk","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}