YAWN!

A new study from the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research in Belgium indicates the time of the cellphone use among teens has an impact on the level of tiredness.


Use of cellphones after "bedtime" increased the odds of being very tired by 2.2. Between midnight and 3 am, the odds were 3.9 times higher, and those who used it at any time of the night, the odds were 3.3 times higher.

The study group included 1656 schoolchildren with an average age of 13.7 years in the youngest group and 16.9 years in the oldest group.

P.S. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that computers and TVs be kept out of the bedroom

Keep in mind that someone actually paid for this study.

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911 EMERGENCY: BIG MAC ATTACK

Did you hear about the 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times looking for McDonald's.

OK, so maybe she didn't ask for a hamburger all 300 times she called from her suburban Chicago apartment, but authorities tracked her down by offering a delivery from the fast-food chain.

It seems the kid was playing with a deactivated cell phone and used it to call dispatchers, sometimes as often as 20 times a shift. Under federal law, deactivated cell phones still must be able to access 911, and many will contact an emergency call center if the user holds down the nine key.

Dispatchers heard the child's voice but could only track the phone's signal to her apartment complex. So to pinpoint her, they asked her what she wanted. She said McDonald's and gave them her address.

Police arrived, without the food, and mom took away the cell phone.


Harsh punishment. Police should have taken away mom's too until she taught her child that a phone, activated or not, is not a toy.

I guess I'd better retrieve my old one from the grandkids' toy box. There are so many other great things in the house besides a cell phone that children can play with anyway.

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