UK Health Radio with your Medical News Update on the hour. Gracie on Mobile Phones

This is UK Health Radio with your Medical News Update on the hour.

Recently Amanda Thomas covered a story about mobile phones and a study that is underway to see how they might affect the children who use them. 

I think it’s good that studies are happening to see what mobile phones do to children. I was not allowed a phone until I went to secondary school last year. My brother is cross because he is too little for one, but he has a Nintendo DS.

All my friends and me have a mobile phone. We are not allowed to use them in the school day, but we do use them even when we are sitting next to each other on the bus - to send texts!

It’s fun to chat and post selfies of each other on instagram. We do other things like making silly movies. When I miss the bus I ring my mum to say that she needs to pick me up.

My Mum thinks I spend too long on my phone and ipod when I do not need to and she hides them away a lot! She says it is not good for my eyes and that using them distracts me.

If the studies say that using mobile phones is bad for children, I will be sad but will use my phone less because I don’t want to be ill.

Gracie Timms

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