{"id":90455,"date":"2026-06-09T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90455"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:00:48","slug":"kids-shouldnt-be-getting-smartphones-before-the-age-of-13-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/09\/kids-shouldnt-be-getting-smartphones-before-the-age-of-13-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids shouldn\u2019t be getting smartphones before the age of 13, study says"},"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\"> < 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\/AA25cRkv.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Keeping a smartphone out of a teen\u2019s bedroom at night may be able to protect them from associated negative consequences for their sleep health (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/crime\/6-7-event-missouri-fights-knife-children-b2992026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Kids<\/a>\u00a0should not be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/social-media-screen-time-kids-parenting-b2990757.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">given a smartphone<\/a> before age 13, at the earliest, researchers said Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/kids-shouldn-t-be-getting-smartphones-before-the-age-of-13-study-says\/ar-AA25cTL2?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=3beae88080644a29e81baba3295cf7bf&ei=18\">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>Kids\u00a0should not be\u00a0given a smartphone before age 13, at the earliest, researchers said Monday. Read More<\/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":["post-90455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/90455","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=90455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90456,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90455\/revisions\/90456"}],"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=90455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}