Nowhere is it written that children will become smarter or thinner or happier if you take away their cell phones. No, not even in the relevant studies.
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It’s a common belief that cell phones make kids stupid and fat and depressed. Because children who look at screens a lot are also particularly bad at school, particularly overweight and particularly sad. This is the study situation, roughly summarized. Australia has therefore banned social media up to the age of 16. More and more federal states are banning cell phones from schools. And ZEIT recently appeared a text about the excesses of screen timewhich began: “In neonatal units, doctors ask new mothers not to post on social media while breastfeeding.”
