As a father of two, Dr Rangan Chatterjee is all too familiar with the pressure parents face to give their children a smartphone, and as a GP he has had a front-row seat to witness the damage the devices unleash on developing brains. “The widespread adoption of technology and smartphones in our children’s lives is the most urgent societal issue we face,” says Chatterjee, author of the bestselling book Make Change That Lasts and host of the hit podcast Feel Better, Live More. It’s an issue made plain by Adolescence, the chilling Netflix drama in which a 13-year-old boy is arrested for murder after being sucked into an online world his parents knew nothing about. Chatterjee says that over the past decade an

Source: The Times March 21, 2025 08:47 UTC