{"id":81867,"date":"2025-12-01T21:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81867"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:48:20","slug":"the-children-left-unable-to-sit-up-straight-by-social-media-deeply-alarming-number-suffer-anxiety-and-behavioural-problems-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/the-children-left-unable-to-sit-up-straight-by-social-media-deeply-alarming-number-suffer-anxiety-and-behavioural-problems-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"The children left unable to sit up straight by social media: &#8216;Deeply alarming&#8217; number suffer anxiety and behavioural problems, report warns"},"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\/12\/01\/14\/104334589-15341659-image-a-2_1764599691616.jpg\" alt=\"Studies have shown that smartphone use among children may lead to various psychological, physical and developmental issues\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of young children are getting hooked on social media before they learn to read, shocking new research has found.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15341659\/Scale-social-media-use-pre-school-children-deeply-alarming-nearly-1-million-using-apps-left-unable-sit-straight-suffering-anxiety-behavioural-problems-report-warns.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>Hundreds of thousands of young children are getting hooked on social media before they learn to read, shocking new research has found.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81867","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\/2024\/06\/baby-with-phone.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867","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=81867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81868,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867\/revisions\/81868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}