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I think they should increase it, because it allows us to have quicker reaction time and it may be our future

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Others have told me that they do limit their kids' computer play, or their total daily "screen time," in a tone that seemed to suggest that any reasonable parent would do that.

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It’s true that the odds of being killed while leaping from your bedroom window into your swimming pool may be relatively small. But there’s a problem with this logic that most teens don’t quite get. That is, no matter how small the risk, the worst possible thing can happen to you.

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Psychologist Dr Clare Wilson, also of the University of Portsmouth, said: “Although this is a pilot study, these findings are fascinating.

“Facebook is marketed as a means of communicating with others. Yet this research shows we are more likely to use it to connect with our past selves, perhaps when our present selves need reassuring.

“The pictures we often post are reminders of a positive past event. When in the grip of a negative mood, it is too easy to forget how good we often feel. Our positive posts can remind us of this.”

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when son number one, Andrew, turned 16, dyed his hair black with red stripes and went off to school wearing studded leather and platform shoes. And his grades went south.

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According to a new pilot study conducted by Dr. Alice Good of the University of Portsmouth, the vast majority of Facebook users use the social network to lift their spirits when they’re feeling down by navigating their old photos and wall posts in which they’ve interacted with family and friends — a “self-soothing” coping mechanism somewhat akin to flipping through a photo album or watching old home videos.

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Your brain is a mass of cells contained inside your skull. It is, in fact, the boss of you. As the diagram at right shows, there are many parts to the brain, and each has a different function--bossy functions. In fact, the brain is the only organ that has localization, explains Dr. Nancy L. Kuntz, a consultant in child and adolescent neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn; one specific part controls movement, another helps decode vision, and so on.

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Of course, in the real world, you can't use that excuse to cover reckless behavior. However, it's true that "the brain's inclination for sensation seeking becomes more intense during adolescence," Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University and an expert on the teenage brain, told Current Health 2.

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"Recent studies show that neural insulation isn’t complete until the mid-20s."Knox

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"They aren’t yet at that place where they’re thinking about—or capable, necessarily, of thinking about the effects of their behavior on other people. That requires insight"

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Decisions don’t “just happen” automatically in your conscious mind. They stem from a series of events in the brain, which happen almost instantaneously. (Scholastic Inc.4)

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"That’s because the nerve cells that connect teenagers’ frontal lobes with the rest of their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don’t have as much of the fatty coating called myelin, or “white matter,” that adults have in this area."

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Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that more than 180,000 Americans die from accidental injuries every year. That works out to one person every three minutes. More than 14,000 of them are under the age of 19.

Is YouTube to blame?

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Quite a few well-controlled research studies have documented positive effects of video games on mental development. Repeated experiments have shown that playing fast-paced action video games can quite markedly increase players' scores on tests of visuospatial ability, including tests that are used as components of standard IQ tests.(Gray,

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Stunt videos on YouTube get millions of hits. But according to some experts, they are far from harmless entertainment. These experts say that by hosting such videos, YouTube encourages young viewers to take potentially deadly risks.

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"What she discovered is that by letting technology into our lives in an unbounded fashion, we are not only losing the art of conversation and the ability to truly relate to one another, we are losing our emotional lives."(Sinclair 79)

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¨In 2009, a 15-year-old boy decided to become famous. His plan was to soak a basketball in gasoline, set it on fire, and sink a perfect three-pointer. He would film the glorious scene and post the video on YouTube. He dreamed of being an Internet celebrity.

Unfortunately, the plan didn’t work out quite as he imagined. As he took his shot, his clothing burst into flames. He was rushed to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns on his chest and legs. He survived, but he’ll have the scars forever¨(O'Neill 41).