Simon Lewis
speaker
395 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Simon Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when a parent hands them a smartphone, I mean, I think there's a New York Times kind of joke which says, you know, it's been lovely getting to know you.
Now here's your first smartphone as a punchline.
I'm going to lose them.
they sort of lose them.
And I can even see it in my own job and I see it from speaking to other teachers and principals that you can tell, you can nearly tell physically the difference between children who have a smartphone of their own and those who don't.
It's mood a lot of the time, you know, because lack of sleep, tiredness, all that sort of stuff, just the innocence sort of gone a little bit because they're seeing things they're not ready for, all that sort of stuff.
And it does really, really worry me.
You know, even to the point I've heard of school trips, overnight school trips being cancelled because they didn't have enough interest, because children weren't, didn't want to break their streak on Snapchat or something like that, you know, those kind of things.
awful little things that just sound really distasteful.
I'm talking about young kids who shouldn't be having smartphones in the first place.
We know that, but they're getting them.
You know, I think by the time they become teenagers, they're probably so they've probably gotten over it.
But at the same time, that's who I mean.
Look, more or less, you know, it's not an easy yes or no kind of answer.
Not an exact science, but there are signs that you will see.
Absolutely.
Certainly through lack of sleep, you can see it.
And, you know, it's, yeah, it's tricky.
It's a tough situation.
It is.
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