{
  "id": 3666274,
  "title": "4 First-Phone Options for Kids Who Need to Call You, Not Scroll All Day",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/4-first-phone-options-for-kids-who-need-to-call-you-not-scroll-all-day",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-27T03:00:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Gadgeteer",
    "slug": "the-gadgeteer",
    "url": "https://the-gadgeteer.com/2026/08/26/4-first-phone-options-for-kids-who-need-to-call-you-not-scroll-all-day/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Giving a young child a phone creates an awkward problem. You want them to call when practice ends early, text when pickup plans change, and reach you when something goes wrong. But a conventional smartphone can also put social media, games, an app store, and the open web in their pocket. So before comparing parental-control […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}