{"id":90865,"date":"2025-09-13T17:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90865"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:24:17","slug":"the-irish-town-that-banished-smartphones-for-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/the-irish-town-that-banished-smartphones-for-young-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish town that banished smartphones for young children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k2sXUNtRiiVdIxDPj2K\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nThe Irish town of Greystones is known for a community-wide initiative where children must be at least 12 years old to own a smartphone, following agreement among parents, schools, and local politicians to protect childhood and delay exposure to social media&#8217;s harmful effects. While not a complete ban, the initiative is a community-led effort to encourage a longer, more traditional childhood before young children are introduced to smartphones<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish town of Greystones is known for a community-wide initiative where children must be at least 12 years old to own a smartphone, following agreement among parents, schools, and local politicians to protect childhood and delay exposure to social media&#8217;s harmful effects. While not a complete ban, the initiative is a community-led effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38413,10755,38414],"class_list":["post-90865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-irish-town","tag-smartphones","tag-young-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90867,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90865\/revisions\/90867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}