A telephone for very young children
In Europe, a mobile phone designed for children four years. Bright unit with a mind more like a toy, but it is not so little: a novelty in the UK will be sold at 85 pounds, which is almost 140 dollars.
A strong device under called Firefly ( “Firefly”), all five buttons, two of which are intended to call my mother and father, says The Daily Mail. In Ireland, the phone has already entered the market, bought more than 7 thousand.
Parents may prohibit a child to take calls from unknown numbers and to control who is listed in his contact list, notes manufacturers. Some models do not allow to write SMS, said Newsru.
Currently, half of British children aged under ten years old have mobile phones, recent studies show. Cell has 85% of adolescents (10 to 14 years).
Manufacturers phones aimed at new customers
“We are constantly destroying children’s lives and turn children into miniature adults – explains the emergence of a new development representative group Parents Outloud Margaret Morrissi. – Justifies the fact that this is done for security reasons, but in reality it is necessary to increase the income of companies that produce mobile phones “.
Professor Laurie Chellis, who led a government study on the safety of cellular communication, argues that mladsheklassnikam generally contraindicated use phones. To lower the radiation affecting the health of children, it is better to write SMS, and not to call, says an expert.
Since British scientists agree, and Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko. He recommends that the Russians limited the use of mobile phones because they are bad influence on the brain.
Eni Lynch, head of the National Parent Council of Ireland, expressed concern that the manufacturers of phones aimed at children. “Why should communicate with their children on a mobile phone? Why not look for them, parents, teachers or carers? “- She wonders.
The British Government recommends not to buy mobile phones to children under 16 years of age. In some countries proposed more stringent measures. Thus, France is preparing to adopt a law prohibiting selling mobile children up to six years and prohibiting the advertisement of phones for children under 12. At the end of last year in Japan also offered to ban mobile phones in schools.
