{"id":8533,"date":"2025-06-09T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:34:19","slug":"uae-screen-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/06\/09\/uae-screen-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Screen Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Rethinking screen time this summer: UAE experts urge parents to focus on connection over control\">Katy Gillett, The National, Rethinking screen time this summer: UAE experts urge parents to focus on connection over control, 8 Jun 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In a new UAE-wide survey by Gen X DXB, a long-running youth community brand, 70 per cent of parents reported that children aged nine to 14 spend most of their free time on screens. Nearly half said there are not enough age-appropriate spaces for this group. This is an age group that, as founder Lorna Bancroft put it, is \u201ctoo old for soft play but too young to hang out unsupervised\u201d.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Gillett, The National, Rethinking screen time this summer: UAE experts urge parents to focus on connection over control, 8 Jun 2025 &#8220;In a new UAE-wide survey by Gen X DXB, a long-running youth community brand, 70 per cent of parents reported that children aged nine to 14 spend most of their free time on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,425],"tags":[280,701],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uae","category-uae-digital","tag-uae","tag-uae-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8534,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}