{"id":72005,"date":"2025-02-13T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72005"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:23:43","slug":"the-average-child-gets-their-first-smartphone-aged-nine-research-has-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/the-average-child-gets-their-first-smartphone-aged-nine-research-has-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The average child gets their first smartphone aged nine, research has revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1yP2uh.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Kid looking at smartphone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A survey of 500 parents with children aged between 8 and 13 has revealed almost half of the parents admitted were &#8216;guilt-tripped&#8217; into buying a phone for their child, while 44% expressed worry that their child would feel left out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/family\/the-average-child-gets-their-first-smartphone-aged-nine-research-has-revealed\/ar-AA1yP9Kj?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=e308bcb69f574c61d2e557423f395503&amp;ei=79\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A survey of 500 parents with children aged between 8 and 13 has revealed almost half of the parents admitted were &#8216;guilt-tripped&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72006,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72005\/revisions\/72006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}