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Why Young Teens Should Never Go to Bed With Their Phones On

STORY: Smartphones in Kids’ Bedrooms Are Worse Than TV A new study from Brown University found that kids between ages 9 and 15 were especially sensitive to exposure to light during the evening hours, even the low levels of light emitted by an electronic device. “Melatonin suppression pushes their body clocks to a later time, and that makes it harder to get up in the morning,” senior study author Mary Carskadon, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Br