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New iPhone parental controls help take action against digital addictions

12/12/201912/11/2019 Julie Campbell

iPhone Parental Controls - Children using iPhone

These options help parents limit kids’ access to text, calls, and FaceTime in meaningful ways. A new Apple iOS update has boosted iPhone parental controls to help enhance security and reduce the risk of kids’ phone addiction. The update provides parents with a full range of additional tools to apply to their kids phone use. Along with the release of the iOS 13.3 came a slew of new iPhone parental controls. These include a number of first time options. These include setting limits regarding to whom their kids can talk…

Smartphone addiction consequences among parents may include behavioral problems in kids

06/07/201706/05/2017 Julie Campbell

child tantrum smartphone addiction consequences

A recent U.S. study showed that parents continually using mobile devices are more likely to have misbehaving children. A small American study indicates that there may be smartphone addiction consequences occurring among the children of the addicted. Parents who regularly look to their mobile devices to check texts, emails, other alerts and videos have an increased chance of having kids who develop behavioral problems, said the research. Similarly, parents who aren’t as attached to their screens are less likely to have kids who misbehave. The study was limited, but involved…

Smartphone addiction prompts “text walking lanes” in Belgium

06/19/201506/17/2015 Julie Campbell

mobile traffic texting smartphone addiction

People are paying so much attention to texting and so little attention to real life that one city has taken action. Antwerp, Belgium, has become the latest city to join into the trend of protecting its residents who have a smartphone addiction by creating text walking lanes that are meant to keep people from wandering into dangerous situations when they fail to glance up at the real world while they are texting. This may sound as though it is a silly thing to do, but texting while walking has become…