https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/natural-freak-out-kids-mobile-phones-but-ban-not-solution

The best way to stop children getting out of their depth? Talk to them – about everything from trivial beefs to misused emojis

I got a message from an ex-colleague who used to be fun and is now an agitator preaching “alt-right” nostalgia to the gerontocracy. Whatever it was he wanted, I would have told him to stick it, but it just so happened that I really disagreed with it: a cross-party group campaigning to restrict mobile phone use among children.