Some Sobering Facts…

“A smartphone is an experience blocker; once a kid has it, it’s so enticing, they’re just not going to have many of those experiences that they need to wire up their brains properly.”

Jonathan Haidt

Minor users are “particularly sensitive to reinforcement in the form of social award,” have “minimal ability to self-regulate effectively,” and “do not have executive function to control their screen time.”

Internal TikTok research

90% of girls and 50% of boys say they are sent explicit pictures or videos of things they do not want to see.

Teenagers who spend 5 hours a day on devices are 71% more likely to have suicide risk factors than those with just 1 hour.

Toddler’s “hand-eye coordination isn’t very good, and they find puzzles difficult. Doing a puzzle on an iPad, you just need to hold and move it on the screen.”

Nursery school teacher quoted in The Guardian

By the age of 11, nine in ten children in the UK own their own mobile phone, as distinct from using a family device.

Ofcom

Half of children aged 3-12 use at least one social media app/site despite the minimum age requirement of 13.

Ofcom

Around a quarter of UK 5-7 year-olds

24 %

now own a smartphone, while three-quarters use a tablet  (76%).

Ofcom

51% of 11-13 year olds have seen pornography online.

Teens with addictive smartphone use are twice as likely to have anxiety.

Children in the UK aged 5 to 7 are increasingly present online – a third use social media unsupervised, and a growing number have personal profiles.

Ofcom

Tech company CEOs and owners and those in the business tend to not purchase smartphones for their children & worry about the impacts on developing brains.

Sextortion* is now the fastest growing crime against teens.

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