2024-05-14 10:22:16
A pact to ban the usage of smartphones earlier than the age of 15 is on-line on a platform. Mother and father of scholars are on the origin.
Revealed on 05/14/2024 12:22
Studying time: 1 min Two kids play with a cellular phone. (JEAN MICHEL MART / MAXPPP)
Problem Kickoff “10 days with out a display”, Tuesday Could 14. Dozens of faculties, associations, municipalities and social facilities are dedicated to turning off screens: TVs, tablets however particularly smartphones to guard younger folks specifically from their extreme use. In the identical vein, mother and father of scholars are mobilizing to delay the age of the primary smartphone to fifteen years outdated and thus forestall their little one from being uncovered too early to violence, porn and harassment.
It was Olivier, mother or father of two younger youngsters close to Rennes, who launched the initiative for this pact. For him, the ban on utilizing cell telephones at college and school will not be sufficient to guard kids: “It is prohibited in schools. Nevertheless, kids are uncovered to different folks’s smartphones on faculty journeys, on the bus that takes kids to highschool, within the considerably ‘stolen’ moments when kids handle to cover the usage of a smartphone inside faculty grounds. If you happen to speak to well being professionals, everybody agrees that we have to enhance the age of the primary smartphone.
The aim of the pact, just like the Fb group near it, is to reverse social stress: to make sure that mother and father don’t really feel obliged to do like everybody else by giving a cellular phone to a youngster too early. Sandrine signed the pact, even when her 11-year-old daughter, who’s ending sixth grade, asks for a smartphone: “We clarify to him that at college, there may be harassment however that when you’ve a cellular phone, the harassment continues exterior. We consider that there are issues that you simply see on a cellular phone who will not be her age. She would not essentially perceive what I need to say to her, however I believe she is aware of it is for her personal good.” The “Mother and father’ pact for a decline within the first smartphone” may be discovered at change.org. A Fb group additionally exists “mother and father united in opposition to smartphones earlier than the age of 15”.
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