{"id":864093,"date":"2025-07-21T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-dumbest-phone-is-parenting-genius\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:12:41","slug":"the-dumbest-phone-is-parenting-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-dumbest-phone-is-parenting-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Caron Morse&#8217;s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: &#8220;A hard hell no.&#8221; Morse is a mental-health provider in the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant screen time could shorten students&#8217; attention spans and give them new anxieties&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2025\/06\/19\/the_dumbest_phone_is_parenting_genius_648686.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tomi Buresh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Caron Morse&#8217;s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: &#8220;A hard hell no.&#8221; Morse is a mental-health provider in the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant screen time could shorten students&#8217; attention spans and give<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2570,978,192],"tags":[16601,8164],"class_list":{"0":"post-864093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dumbest","8":"category-phone","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-dumbest","11":"tag-phone"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}