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Teens And Digitally-Interrupted Sleep

A free resource from CPYU discussing the health dangers of digitally-interrupted sleep. By Walt Mueller, CPYU President Download the handout here. Here at CPYU, one of our goals to is see young people flourish in life. This begins with pointing…
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What is Telephobia?

I’ve had numerous conversations over the years with parents who have received troubling phone calls where they are given bad news about a child. Some parents have told me that after a few of these calls, they become like Pavlov’s…
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Put Down the Phones

With loneliness off the charts for kids in today’s world, we can reasonably conclude that more time looking at screens means less time with others. In her new book “the extinction of experience: being human in a disembodied world”, Christine…
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Smartphone Use and Declining Test Grades

At the start of this year’s school year, we were hearing reports about more and more schools nationwide that were taking steps to get the smartphones out of their student’s hands during the school day. This a great move that…
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