{"id":14050,"date":"2025-08-04T21:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:11:13","slug":"how-to-reduce-screen-time-tips-to-put-your-phone-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14050","title":{"rendered":"How to Reduce Screen Time: Tips to Put Your Phone Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-wbgwfj\">There\u2019s that nagging voice again: \u201cPut the phone away. No, really this time.\u201d But we don\u2019t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or \u201calmost constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-wbgwfj\">\u201cOn your deathbed, what kind of life do you want to look back on?\u201d said Catherine Price, the author of \u201cHow to Break Up With Your Phone,\u201d when we asked her how to stop the constant scrolling. \u201cOne in which you spent your time with people you love and on things that brought you meaning and joy? Or one that you spent staring down at your phone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-wbgwfj\">So how do we cut back? We were tired of the same old advice that tells us to use grayscale screens and app timers, so we went in search of new ideas. Screen time experts who advocate a healthier relationship with technology shared tricks that aren\u2019t widely known, but really work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s that nagging voice again: \u201cPut the phone away. No, really this time.\u201d But we don\u2019t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or \u201calmost constantly.\u201d \u201cOn your deathbed, what kind of life do you want to look back on?\u201d said Catherine Price, the author of \u201cHow to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[6186,356,1533,1560,286,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-14050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-phone","9":"tag-put","10":"tag-reduce","11":"tag-screen","12":"tag-time","13":"tag-tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}