Articles about children, communication, and family connection.
Wearable trackers and home phones look like one product category. They are opposite interventions in a child's development.
Read more →Two camps, the same data, opposite conclusions about screens and children's health. We read the studies from both sides. The fight is real, but five things everyone agrees on, and they are enough to wait.
Read more →In more than 20 countries, parent movements are organising almost half a million families who are waiting to give their children a smartphone. Nearly all of these countries now ban phones in school, but only four countries give guidelines on when a child should own one. And no movement has a good answer to how the child should reach their friends in the meantime, without a mobile phone. That is the gap Barnluren fills.
Read more →The share of nine-year-olds with their own mobile fell from 82 to 67 percent. But look closer at Mediemyndigheten's figures and 10- and 11-year-olds are completely unchanged. The entire shift sits on a single year of age.
Source: Mediemyndigheten, Ungar & medier 2025 Read more →Folkhälsomyndigheten's advice to wait until 13 before giving a child their own smartphone raises an important question: how can children gain more independence without needing a smartphone?
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