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Do you ban smart phones at certain times with your family?

Each With It's Own Thoughts

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In my home we have a simple rule. No phones at meals times. This works pretty well, but sometimes my girlfriend's daughters roll their eyes so high they can see what's going on behind them! They are good kids, but when you ask teens and pre-teens to put their phones down these days, it's like you are asking them to amputate a limb!

Why are we talking about this? Well a school principal at Iowa Valley Junior-Senior High School in Marengo, has introduced what she calls ‘No phone, new friends Fridays’ at lunchtime.

Principal Janet Behrens says “Every little thing helps in this day and age with all of the things that you have going on, all the pressures that they have with social media, it's nice to see them take a break from all that.”

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