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‘Each year you delay giving a phone is a big win’: child screen-time solutions from around the world | From stringent legislation to grassroots action, Australia and Spain lead the way in tackling children’s use of mobile phones and tablets
From stringent legislation to grassroots action, Australia and Spain lead the way in tackling children’s use of mobile phones and tablets
Their initiative, Adolescencia Libre de Móviles(Mobile-free Adolescence), quickly spread across Catalonia and other parts of Spain as families united around the idea of not giving their children phones until they are 16. A parents’ group in the Basque Country called Altxa Burua(lift your head up) has been trialling a scheme to delay the age at which children get mobile phones by enlisting the help of families, schools and local businesses. But political officials such as the Schleswig-Holstein education minister, Karin Prien, have called for mobile phones to be banished entirely from elementary schools, citing negative effects on learning and physical health.
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