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Teachers urge parents not to buy children smartphones

Teachers fear some children use smartphones for eight hours a day and until four in the morning.

"We get a lot of wellbeing issues, as do all schools, that come from social media activity online over the weekend, or when they should be asleep," added the head of Monmouth Comprehensive. The mum-of-three is worried what her son could be exposed to online and how "addictive" devices were but offered Monty a "brick phone" – a term to describe older models that can't connect to the internet and is only capable of calls and texts. In a token of solidarity to their son Monty and to encourage their two younger daughters, Emma Manchand and her husband Kev offered give up their own smartphones.

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