{"id":203744,"date":"2025-01-14T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/bill-gates-this-book-is-a-must-read-for-parents-it-calls-for-banning-smartphones-in-schools"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:23:10","slug":"bill-gates-this-book-is-a-must-read-for-parents-it-calls-for-banning-smartphones-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/bill-gates-this-book-is-a-must-read-for-parents-it-calls-for-banning-smartphones-in-schools","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: This book is a \u2018must-read\u2019 for parents\u2014it calls for banning smartphones in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-this-book-is-a-must-read-for-parents-it-calls-for-banning-smartphones-in-schools2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates worries that kids today may miss out on a key advantage he had. The billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/12\/04\/bill-gates-is-glad-he-didnt-grow-up-with-smartphones-social-media.html\">credits his successful career<\/a>, in part, to having the freedom, and free time, in his youth to explore the world around him, to read and to think deeply without more modern distractions like smartphones and social media.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s kids spend less time outside, exploring and playing with friends, than previous generations, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and social media.<\/p>\n<p>That switch from a \u201cplay-based childhood\u201d to one that\u2019s \u201cphone-based\u201d has triggered a cultural shift that\u2019s behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/05\/23\/us-surgeon-general-we-must-protect-kids-from-social-media-risks-now.html\">rising rates of mental health issues<\/a> in younger generations, along with other negative effects on kids\u2019 ability to learn and socialize, according to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt\u2019s 2024 best-selling book \u201cThe Anxious Generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates worries that kids today may miss out on a key advantage he had. The billionaire credits his successful career, in part, to having the freedom, and free time, in his youth to explore the world around him, to read and to think deeply without more modern distractions like smartphones and social media. Today\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}