“The mobile phone epidemic among young people” busy Front page of the September 12 issue of the Portuguese weekly magazine Sabado, Who advertises in the title A “Great report” From 12 pages. “Excessive use of social networks and the Internet is causing a health catastrophe among children and adolescents. Depression, panic attacks, sleep and eating disorders are on the rise, and we feel a decline in academic performance.
We know in particular that six out of ten young Portuguese people spend more than four hours a day online, according to a survey conducted by the Intervention Service for Addictive Behaviors and Dependencies (SICAD) in 2022. About a third of them say they suffer from addiction. Also Sabado Analyze with psychologists “Negative effects on empathy, socialization, and academic learning,” While helpless parents witness these addictions.
There is a way to prevent addiction from taking control, The weekly concludes. “All you have to do is make sure that screen use doesn’t become a habit and set limits.”
This was stated on Wednesday 11 at the end of the Cabinet session by the Minister of Education, Fernando Alexander, Posted by general : “Smartphone use can be detrimental to learning and can harm children’s well-being.” As a result, the government, led by centre-right Social Democrat Luis Montenegro, has recommended since March that schools ban the use of phones for up to six phone calls.H In the Portuguese school system, said Fernando Alexandre.
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After 6HInstitutions are called upon to adopt measures to restrict and discourage their use. Pending the results of a study on the effects of screens on student learning, the Portuguese executive has not ruled out imposing this ban on phones after the sixth grade.
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