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Screen-time messages designed to decrease phone usage. will it reduce the phone usage?
A new project encouraging adults to communicate more with their kids and focus less on their smartphones has been launched. It includes sending them messages with parenting advice. Would this reduce your phone use?
The guidance is part of a project to help parents communicate with young children linked to the BBC’s Tiny Happy People campaign and developed by a speech therapist for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
But does it work?
BBC correspondent Hywel Griffith has been to meet a family in Cardiff who tried it out.
Since the introduction of smartphones, the growing internet technology, gaming and media platforms have attracted billions of people. The screen-time is increasing everyday supported by advanced features in mobile phones, cheaper and greater coverage of internet, which made it accessible in the remotest of areas, and within even the most underdeveloped places.
Today, the families are loosing physical interactions. even at leisure places, most of the family members are on their mobile phones, instead of enjoying the time together. The long term impact is obvious disruption of family system.
Experiments like these might help some people, but a greater awareness is needed to protect the worsening situation, especially in kids and young adults.
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