from the New Yorker: "...children, from elementary school through high school, get about an hour less sleep each night than they did 30 years ago....many causes for this lost hour... Overscheduling...homework...lax bedtimes... televisions and cell phones in the bedroom... So does guilt; home from work after dark, parents want time with their children and are reluctant to play the hard-ass who orders them to bed....hallmark characteristics of being a tweener and teen—moodiness, depression, and even binge eating—are actually symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation."
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