Should teens be banned from having smartphones? Psychologist 警告するs against 'insane' practice of 'giving strangers 接近 to your children' in wake of 警報 over 'sextortion 疫病／流行性の'

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A 審議 broke out on Good Morning Britain on whether teens should be banned from having smartphones.?

American social psychologist and author?Jonathan Haidt?said we should not have kids 'exposed to 無作為の weirdos on the internet'?because the most 極度の慎重さを要する time for brain 開発 is puberty.

But 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Harry Wallop, who put his own 17-year-old daughter?Celia on a smartphone 禁止（する） for a week as an 実験, said there are 肯定的なs to having a phone.

動きやすい phones have already been banned in some schools in a 企て，努力，提案 to minimise disruption and 改善する behaviour in classrooms, while this week teachers were given an 前例のない 警報 about pupils 存在 的d in 'sextortion' scams.

The 国家の?罪，犯罪?機関 警告するd all 570,000 最初の／主要な and 第２位 teachers across Britain that children as young as five are at 危険 from?ruthless 犯罪の ギャング（団）s from West Africa and Sou th East Asia who are 誘惑するing children online to send intimate photos of themselves, and then using them to ゆすり，恐喝 them.?

American social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt said we should not have kids 'exposed to 無作為の weirdos on the internet' because the most 極度の慎重さを要する time for brain 開発 is puberty in a Good Morning Britain 審議 on Tuesday?

Jonathan, who wrote the 調書をとる／予約する The Anxious 世代: How the 広大な／多数の／重要な Rewiring of Childhood Is 原因（となる）ing an 疫病／流行性の of Mental Illness, 明らかにする／漏らすd smartphones have 点火（する）d a 'wildfire' of 苦悩 and 不景気 amongst young people around the world.?

He said: 'When you look at mental health 統計（学） what you see is the 率s of 苦悩, 不景気 and self 害（を与える） were pretty stable in the late 1990s and 早期に 2000s and in about 2012 is was like someone flipped a switch and girls all over the world began cutting themselves.

'Boys are getting worse too, but with girls it was very sudden. With girls it is very （疑いを）晴らす there is a link. In 2010 girls didn't have smartphones, they didn't have Instagram with 前線 直面するing cameras, by 2015 they had all of that.'

Making the link between smartphone use and self 害（を与える）, he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the phones became 'experience blockers', 説: 'They don't have hobbies, they don't read 調書をとる／予約するs and they don't see their friends.'

Speaking about?sextortion, which is?a type of online ゆすり，恐喝 where 犯罪のs 脅す to 株 性の pictures, ビデオs, or （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, the?psychologist said children are exposed to '無作為の weirdos on the internet'.

He 追加するd: '非，不，無 of us would send out kids to （軍の）野営地，陣営 out in a terrible dangerous neighbourhood and spend 10 years there, that would be insane. But we give them these 装置s that are designed to let strangers talk to out children.'?

Jonathan 追加するd that children seeing violent ビデオs online is 極端に harmful to their brain 開発.?

He said: 'We care what our children take in, 特に in puberty. The most important time for brain 開発 is 現実に in puberty. That is when the brain is rewiring from it's childhood form to its adult form.

新聞記者／雑誌記者 Harry Wallop, (権利) who put his own 17-year-old daughter Celia (left) on a smartphone 禁止（する） for a week as an 実験, said there are 肯定的なs to having a phone

Harry's daughter Celia, who was put on a smartphone 禁止（する） for one week by her parents as an 実験, also joined in on the 審議

Jonathan, who wrote the 調書をとる／予約する The Anxious 世代: How the 広大な／多数の／重要な Rewiring of Childhood Is 原因（となる）ing an 疫病／流行性の of Mental Illness, 明らかにする／漏らすd smartphones have 点火（する）d a 'wildfire' of 苦悩 and 不景気 amongst young people around the world

'There is 研究 from Britain 現実に which 明言する／公表するs 11 to 13 years old is the age were the links between social マスコミ and 害（を与える） are the strongest. 早期に puberty is 正確に／まさに the time we should not be having our kids exposed by 無作為の weirdos on the internet.'?

Although the psychologist said smartphones can be harmful to 十代の少年少女s, 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Harry argued that there are also 肯定的なs to the 装置s.??????

Harry said: 'They are incredibly useful 装置s and there are 肯定的なs. Celia does spend too much time on TikTok. I spend too much time on Twitter. But she is mostly looking at cooking ビデオs and 構成 tutorials, it can be 肯定的な stuff 同様に.?

'Now it is very difficult, 特に as an adult and a 十代の少年少女, getting around a city. How do you live without a smartphone because train tickets, tube tickets, 地図／計画するs, everything now? It's a 小型の computer.'

Harry's daughter?Celia, who was put on a smartphone 禁止（する） for one week by her parents as an 実験, also joined in on the 審議.?

She said: 'It was good to have time away from my phone and enjoy other hobbies but I felt やめる 孤立するd and lonely from my other friends and that I was 行方不明の out on things.

Many テレビ視聴者s took to social マスコミ to leave their own thoughts on the 議論の的になる topic

'When I was 支援する at school I didn't find it too bad because I was surrounded by my friends, but the first day of the 週末 was really hard.'

Many テレビ視聴者s took to social マスコミ to leave their own thoughts on the 議論の的になる topic.

One person said: 'Can phones come with an underage 方式? When setting up a 動きやすい you have an underage 選択 where parents can tick this, which will then give no 接近 to 確かな apps or 封鎖する them from sending ビデオs or images 経由で 確かな apps .'

Another said: 'Let’s 直面する it, they feel they need their phones as they are （麻薬）常用者d to social マスコミ and the harmful consequences of it.. eg cyber いじめ（る）ing, comparison, FOMO, sleep 騒動s and creating a 欠如（する） of in-person socialisation, 主要な to 問題／発行するs around basic social 技術s.'

Someone else wrote: '井戸／弁護士席 I think them 存在 locked in their houses for 2 years with hardly any education or 直面する to 直面する social time is a lot of it. Gaming and phones and 科学（工学）技術 are the 未来 and there's probably nothing anyone can do about it.'?

Last month a Parentkid 投票 明らかにする／漏らすd that 58 パーセント of parents believe the 政府 should introduce a 禁止（する） on smartphones for under-16s.?

The mother of 殺人d 十代の少年少女 Brianna Ghey has also called for smartphones to be made 利用できる for under-16s without social マスコミ apps.

In January, Tory MP and former teacher Miriam Cates asked the 総理大臣 to take the 手段 今後, 公式文書，認めるing that the UK 'has a strong tradition of 立法者ing to 保護する children from serious 脅しs to their safety and 福利事業.'

A 政府 spokesperson said: 'We do not comment on 憶測. Our かかわり合い to making the UK the safest place to be a child online is unwavering, as 証拠d by our 目印 Online Safety 行為／法令／行動する.'