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Mobile-free zones: How a parent initiative led to the restriction of phones in Catalan schools

Durada: 22 min

In January, the Catalan government joined other European countries in the fight to regulate the use of mobile phones by children in public primary and secondary schools. The idea came from the parent initiative Adolescència Lliure de Mòbil, A Phone-free Adolescence, which started in the Barcelona neighborhood of Poblenou in November 2023, and soon spread to other parts of the Catalan capital, then the rest of Catalonia and Spain. Oriol Escudé Macià joins Lea Beliaeva Bander to talk about the new regulations and some of the risks of children using smartphones. Lluna Porta, spokesperson for Adolescència Lliure de Mòbil explains how the group got started, and Jose Ramon Ubieto, a clinical psychologist and author offers advice on how to reduce phone time. This week's Catalan phrase is 'bufar i fer ampolles'. Literally, 'to blow and make bottles', it's used to express something easy to do, similar to the English phrase "piece of cake".

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Mobile-free zones: How a parent initiative led to the restriction of phones in Catalan schools