BY JAMEY TUCKER, Consumer Technology Reporter

Taking a phone away after the child has been using it for awhile is difficult. The idea in Greystones, is to never give a child a phone until they reach middle school. That, and getting parents to agree, is why it’s working so well.

“She wouldn’t eat unless the screen was on with Peppa Pig and she’d just close her mouth and wouldn’t eat until we…that’s how we had to feed her,” says Sienna’s father.

It isn’t just screen time. It’s what children might see when they click a few times that robs them of innocence.

“We had a trend at one stage where we had a number of girls and guys self-harming, and we traced it back and they’d all watched videos of people self-harming.”

Not intentionally, but because algorithms push certain content based on wh

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