{"id":91291,"date":"2026-06-26T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91291"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:55:09","slug":"uk-children-are-spending-at-least-two-hours-a-day-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/26\/uk-children-are-spending-at-least-two-hours-a-day-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"UK children are spending at least two hours a day on social media"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90367\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phone-in-bed-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phone-in-bed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phone-in-bed-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phone-in-bed-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phone-in-bed-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phone-in-bed.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children in the UK aged between eight and 14 are spending nearly three hours online every day, with the majority of that time dedicated to social media platforms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/uk-children-are-spending-at-least-two-hours-a-day-on-social-media\/ar-AA25G1Mg?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=e93efa0cbc30473de8801fe41310a064&ei=41\">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>Children in the UK aged between eight and 14 are spending nearly three hours online every day, with the majority of that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/children-on-phones.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91291","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=91291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91292,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91291\/revisions\/91292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}