I am really going to start focusing my blogs towards teenagers. I am right in the middle of the teen years at my house and there is so much to learn about them. Now that I have been looking, I have discovered many other blogs geared towards teens and I can so relate! Most recently, I found an article at Web MD that really hit home called Teens Talk Text Into The Wee Hours. Listen to this……

Sept. 6, 2007 — Tiptoe past a teen’s room after bedtime, and you might see
a cell phone’s glow underneath the doorway.   

Many teens talk or text message on their mobile phones after bedtime at
least occasionally — and the more often they do it, the more tired they
are.   

That news appears in the latest edition of the journal Sleep.   

Data came from more than 1,600 teens at 15 schools in Flanders, Belgium.
They rated their tiredness and reported how often they send or receive calls or
text messages on their mobile phones after bedtime.

I actually chuckled when I read this because I remember looking at his cell phone bill and seeing the times he was mostly using his phone. He was on starting around 11pm and sometimes on until 2 or 3am. Does he think he is really fooling me? I let it go for a while because the phone was new, but after a few weeks and a couple of arguments from him being so tired, I stopped it…or so I thought.

One night, I quietly opened his door only to find him hiding under the covers talking on his phone. Now I had to get tough with the new school year approaching. The phone is now mine after 9:00pm.

He has actually been pretty good about handing over his phone every night. He just gives me his cute smile of surrender knowing that his mom isn’t so dumb.