Banning smartphone and social media access alone fails to equip children for the healthy use of technology in the future, a group of international experts has argued.
Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the collection of academics argued there is a lack of evidence that blanket bans helped children and such approaches were “stop-gap solutions” that “do little to support children’s longer-term healthy engagement with digital spaces across school, home, and other contexts, and their successful transition into adolescence and adulthood in a technology-filled world”.
