I Gave Up My Cell Phone to Show My Teenage Daughters It Was Possible – The Results Were Disastrous

A barrage of pinging WhatsApp messages interrupts my lunchtime dog walk. “Draconian, punitive measures!” says one. “Well, it’s true that smartphones are bad for mental health,” says another. The unofficial “Parents of Year 8” group chat for my daughters’ school goes into overdrive, fueled by the school’s proposed new, stricter phone policy: dumb phones only … Read more