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  • Up all night texting

      Between their crazy schedules and upside-down circadian rhythms, teens always have been somewhat sleep-deprived. Now technology is making it worse.        Teens are not just texting, instant-messaging and surfing Facebook all day; they're sleeping with their cell phones or laptops, too. Or rather, not sleeping. And doctors and parents, many of them raised in an era when phones were attached...read more...
    Posted on: Nov 2 2009 - 06:00:00 AM

    Teen 'sexting' = porn?

      CHICAGO -- Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a cell phone or posted online may not be, especially if they're naughty.    Teenagers' habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically -- often called "sexting'' if it's done by cell phone -- has parents and school administrators worried. Some prosecutors have begun charging teens who send and receive such images with child...read more...
    Posted on: Feb 5 2009 - 06:00:00 AM

    Electronics costing kids sleep?

    Los Angeles Times   Declining amounts and quality of sleep in U.S. children could be linked to changes in media use, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported Monday.    Children are more engaged in the Internet, video games and cell phones than with older types of media, the report says, and might use them at times that interfere with sleep. Some children take their cell phones to bed.    The report...read more...
    Posted on: Jun 10 2008 - 09:00:00 AM
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