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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who are skeptical about teenagers needing more sleep and their changing circadian rhythms should ask your children’s doctor or any teen psychologist that you know. See what they say about later high school start times and whether MCPS is behind the curve on this issue [/quote]

I know they almost need as much sleep as younger children, but that's why I make my teens go to bed early. It's not that hard if you take the phones away.[/quote]

Amen sister.  No screens at all after 9pm in our house.  If they need to finish their homework maybe but next time they need to budget time earlier in the day.  Or get up earlier in the morning to finish.

I did this at the advice of our pediatrician, FWIW.[/quote]

We do the exact same thing. It seems like some people are simply against parenting their children.[/quote]

You actually just sound incredibly privileged, entitled, and childish. So many parents work nights and aren’t there to ensure their kids don’t use screens. Also, as someone else pointed out, they can occupy themselves with things other than phones (but apparently your kids aren’t creative enough and just go to bed when they have no screen time, so I’d look in the mirror before coming for other parents) [/quote]

If you take away screens, kids will find another way to amuse themselves.  Stop blaming screens.  Be a parent.[/quote]

Sometimes being a parent IS taking away the screens.  Screens have a well documented affect on melatonin.  It's not always about kids doing something in the absence of screens, it's about being able to fall asleep.  Reading a book before bed does not have the same effect as surfing the internet.[/quote]

You are making huge assumptions that all kids have screens at night.  Ours have them to do homework/schoolwork and that's it but unlike yours, ours are in activities and busy during the week.  Stop blaming screens.  If your kids have access to them at night, you are th problem.[/quote]

Look, do what works for you.  I’ll keep doing what helps get my kids a good night sleep.  Toodles![/quote]

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