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Psychologists are learning how dangerous smartphones can be for teenage brains.
The World Health Organization recently advised parents to limit screentime to just one hour a day for children under five. Though one large study found little correlation between screen-time and mental health impacts, other research has found that an eighth-grader's risk for depression jumps 27% when he or she frequently uses social media.
But the writing about smartphone risk might have been on the wall for roughly a decade, according to educators Joe Clement and Matt Miles, co-authors of the book "Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse is Making Our Kids Dumber."
It should be telling, Clement and Miles argue, that the two biggest tech figures in recent history — Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — seldom let their kids play with the very products they helped create.
"What is it these wealthy tech executives know about their own products that their consumers don't?" the authors wrote.
Here's how Silicon Valley elites limit screentime for their own kids, despite helping sell tech to children across the world:
In 2007, Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, implemented a cap on screen time when his daughter started developing an unhealthy attachment to a video game. He also didn't let his kids get cell phones until they turned 14.
Spiegel and his wife Miranda Kerr impose an hour and a half of screen time per week on their kids, he told the Financial Times. Young people use Snapchat more often than any other social media platform, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey.
Plus, current Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have spoken out against tech overuse among children.
Jobs, who was the CEO of Apple until his death in 2012, revealed in a 2011 New York Times interview that he prohibited his kids from using the newly-released iPad. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home," Jobs told reporter Nick Bilton.
In a recent interview on Cheddar, iPod co-creator Tony Fadell speculated that if Steve Jobs were alive today, he'd want to address growing societal concerns about tech addiction. "He'd say, 'Hey we need to do something about it,'" Fadell said.
Pichai told the New York Times in a 2018 interview that his then-11-year-old son did not have a cell phone, and that he limits the time his children spend watching television.
Psychologists are learning how dangerous smartphones can be for teenage brains.
The World Health Organization recently advised parents to limit screentime to just one hour a day for children under five. Though one large study found little correlation between screen-time and mental health impacts, other research has found that an eighth-grader's risk for depression jumps 27% when he or she frequently uses social media.
But the writing about smartphone risk might have been on the wall for roughly a decade, according to educators Joe Clement and Matt Miles, co-authors of the book "Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse is Making Our Kids Dumber."
It should be telling, Clement and Miles argue, that the two biggest tech figures in recent history — Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — seldom let their kids play with the very products they helped create.
"What is it these wealthy tech executives know about their own products that their consumers don't?" the authors wrote.
Here's how Silicon Valley elites limit screentime for their own kids, despite helping sell tech to children across the world:
In 2007, Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, implemented a cap on screen time when his daughter started developing an unhealthy attachment to a video game. He also didn't let his kids get cell phones until they turned 14.
Spiegel and his wife Miranda Kerr impose an hour and a half of screen time per week on their kids, he told the Financial Times. Young people use Snapchat more often than any other social media platform, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey.
Plus, current Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have spoken out against tech overuse among children.
Jobs, who was the CEO of Apple until his death in 2012, revealed in a 2011 New York Times interview that he prohibited his kids from using the newly-released iPad. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home," Jobs told reporter Nick Bilton.
In a recent interview on Cheddar, iPod co-creator Tony Fadell speculated that if Steve Jobs were alive today, he'd want to address growing societal concerns about tech addiction. "He'd say, 'Hey we need to do something about it,'" Fadell said.
Pichai told the New York Times in a 2018 interview that his then-11-year-old son did not have a cell phone, and that he limits the time his children spend watching television.
