{"id":798,"date":"2006-12-03T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/who-do-you-believe-about-kids.html"},"modified":"2006-12-03T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T09:13:00","slug":"who-do-you-believe-about-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/who-do-you-believe-about-kids.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Believe About Kids & Cellphones?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, the eldest Chattering son desperately wants a cellphone for Christmas. To him, it’s a symbol of being grown up. <\/p>\n

I am in the minority of parents concerned about cellphone health risks; my own cell leaves my cranium with a warm, tingling feeling every time I foolishly indulge in a long conversation without the hands-free earpiece. I admit to being an “energetically sensitive” sort of a person. And I’m also slow to embrace technology generally. <\/p>\n

But the developing skull of a child, according to this month’s Ode magazine<\/a>, is more malleable, and still contains “bone marrow, which produces stem cells, blood cells and lymphocytes.” In other words, the cellphone radiation risk for children may prove to be more significant.<\/p>\n

On one hand, the American Cancer Society deems cellphone use safe, and took the time to set up this informative webpage<\/a>. Ode (the magazine for “intelligent optimists”) takes a skeptical view, reminding everyone to reserve cellphones for short conversations, and encouraging us to use a phone attached to a cord<\/em> for all other phone communication. That means the article’s author Kim Ridley is questioning all <\/em>cordless phones; yeah, that one you’ve been using for years<\/em>! Both the Cancer Society and Ridley refer to research studies, and in one case, seem to interpret the same study differently. MicrowaveNews.com<\/a>, a reliable source I’ve mentioned before, also monitors cellphone safety regularly.<\/p>\n

So how do you use your cell, and don’t you think children and teens should be told to use cordless phones as little as possible? Let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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