Positive News #122 - Childhood Unplugged - Jul-Sep 2025

Positive News #122

Childhood, unplugged – The grassroots movement to protect children from smartphones

Concerned parents are pushing back against the omnipresence of phones in kids’ lives. Smartphone Free Childhood began with a conversation between two mums and has since exploded into a nationwide campaign for change that has signed up tens of thousands of families. At its heart is a powerful idea: that childhood should be protected, not shaped by technology

Other features include: Award-winning honey from rescued bees • How to focus on solutions rather than struggles • Greening the sport of running • The campaign helping parents to ditch party waste • Giving London’s trees a second life • Portraits of the people who feed the UK • For the love of reading with children • Brian Cox’s life lessons • Life after surviving the Spycops scandal • The scent-based workshops helping UK prisoners • You told us: what have you learned from your most challenging experiences? 

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