{"id":23237,"date":"2020-02-04T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=23237"},"modified":"2020-02-04T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:49:24","slug":"half-of-all-10-year-olds-have-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/half-of-all-10-year-olds-have-a-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Of All 10 Year Olds Have A Smartphone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to a report by media regulator Ofcom, Fifty per cent of\u00a0 10 year olds in the UK owned a smartphone in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this , 24% of 3 and 4 year olds had their own tablet, and 15% of them were allowed to take it to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom dubbed this &#8220;the age of digital independence&#8221;as the number of 9 and 10 year olds with smartphones doubled.\u00a0 The study was based on interviews with 3,200 parents and children from all across the country.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/131C3\/production\/_110757287_childrens_online_viewing_habits_-3x640-nc.png\" alt=\"Graph of children's media habits\" width=\"591\" height=\"690\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of the BBC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The mobile phone is the device of choice for children,&#8221; said Yih-Choung Teh, strategy and research group director at Ofcom, &#8220;I&#8217;m conscious that for these children who have never known a world without the internet, in many respects their online and offline worlds are indistinguishable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was also revealed that 87% of parents with children aged between 5 and 15 wanted advice about how to keep them safe online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing around half of 12-15 year olds saying they have seen hateful content online, and an increase in parents who are concerned about it,&#8221; said Yih-Choung Teh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is, more conversations about staying safe online are also happening across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by media regulator Ofcom, Fifty per cent of\u00a0 10 year olds in the UK owned a smartphone in 2019. In addition to this , 24% of 3 and 4 year olds had their own tablet, and 15% of them were allowed to take it to bed. Ofcom dubbed this &#8220;the age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":23238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,101,43],"class_list":["post-23237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23239,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23237\/revisions\/23239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}