Three Children Go a Week Without Smartphones in a Channel 13 Experiment

Channel 13 followed an experiment in which three children and three teenagers were taken off their smartphones for an entire week. The participants, who normally did not let the phones out of their hands, were given a so-called “safe” phone instead. The report asks what happens when such a group is separated from the device that dominates their routine.

According to the article, the cameras tracked the families throughout the week to see how the change affected the children, the teenagers, and the household as a whole. The program set out to test whether everyone could make it through the full challenge and reach the finish line.

The piece does not describe the outcome in detail in the text provided, but it frames the central question as whether the participants successfully completed the week without their regular smartphones and how difficult the separation proved to be for them and their home.