We have this rule in our house, and I'll tell you, we're incredibly popular with our three children, that they are not allowed to have screens in their rooms.

That means no tablets, no phones, we don't have TVs in there.

They have to put them outside the room and plug them in and charge them outside.

The pushback is from the high school kid, "Well, I need it for my alarm."

No, they make alarm clocks for that.

They really do.

They're old fashioned, and they're wonderful.

But setting that boundary to say, "No, this isn't gonna be in your room."

Because what you're doing is you're establishing a space that you say, "This space is dedicated for sleeping, and this space is where your mind is gonna get the most rest that you need."

So yeah, get away.

And because what's happening is, it's actually kind of cool, that light, even with the filters and different things like that, that light is triggering the area of your brain to say, "It's time to wake up."

Okay?

So yeah, we want to kind of squash that.

The other thing is, remember this thing that's in your brain is being triggered to say, "It's time to wake up by getting that extra light from your screen."

Another rule that we have that's really great, we think, is we don't do screens before school starts.

Okay?

You do not need to wake up and get on a screen.

You don't need to play video games.

You don't need to do those things.

Because what we find is, is that when these kids are waking up and they get on the screen, sure, they can do the routine, whatever, but if they get on that screen, you're training your brain more and more to wake up earlier and earlier.

And these kids wake up kind of like hooked on it.

Like you're saying, you're trying to wrestle it away from them.

They wake up earlier and earlier because they're trying to get more screen time in throughout the day.

So we just say, "Nope, blanket statement.

We just don't do that."

And so the kids don't need it.