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My topic is Children's Media Use and
Sleep Problems. The link to my article is http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/7674.pdf
However, I will also be attaching a
copy of the article for this post.
Well the article is just as we all
would have expected it. Watching too much TV, playing too much with video
games, etc will and can interfere with normal sleep patterns. Isn't this
exactly what doctors and researchers have been telling us adults that have
sleep problems, for years now? Parents why are we allowing our children to
watch TV, or be on their cell phones in bed? This article even talks about kids
taking their cell phones to bed with them to text! I was at my son's Jiu Jitsu
dojo last night. I heard the owners' wife telling someone how her son has a
cell phone and she just got him an upgrade. She was talking about an 8 year old
boy! Am I wrong in thinking there is something innately wrong with an 8 year
old having a cell phone? The truly sad thing is that I know of other children
his age who have cell phones, and obviously he has friends with phones because
his kept ringing. It must have rang at least 6 or 7 times in that one hour. But, at this vulnerable age parents wonder
when they over indulge their children why the kids don't behave, or act whiny
when things don't go their way! OR, is this just me and my backward way of
thinking? Children now are doing things and behaving in manners that I did not
until I was older. Is 8 or 9 years old the new 12 or 13? But, when you try to
explain to parents why their children may not be sleeping, or are having
attention problems in school does what you say even get through? Why are we
allowing our children to have all this technology? Is it because we have grown
so accustomed to it ourselves that we now think nothing of even our youngest
children having all the techno gear too? How young is too young to have a cell
phone, ipod, etc.?
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