{"id":76890,"date":"2025-06-29T07:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T07:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76890"},"modified":"2025-06-29T07:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T07:39:02","slug":"parents-warned-to-limit-their-childrens-screen-time-as-research-finds-youngsters-glued-to-smartphones-and-tablets-have-smaller-brains-and-lower-iqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/parents-warned-to-limit-their-childrens-screen-time-as-research-finds-youngsters-glued-to-smartphones-and-tablets-have-smaller-brains-and-lower-iqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents warned to limit their children&#8217;s screen time, as research finds youngsters glued to smartphones and tablets have smaller brains and lower IQs"},"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:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/06\/29\/01\/99826069-14857409-image-a-118_1751157867196.jpg\" alt=\"Parents are being warned to limit children's screen time after a study found it could lead to them having smaller brains and lower intelligence\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parents are being warned to limit children&#8217;s screen time after a study found it could lead to them having smaller brains and lower intelligence.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14857409\/Parents-warned-limit-childrens-screen-time-lower-IQs.html\">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>Parents are being warned to limit children&#8217;s screen time after a study found it could lead to them having smaller brains and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76890","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\/2022\/10\/screentime-toddler.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76890","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=76890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76891,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76890\/revisions\/76891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}