DES MOINES, Iowa -- With metro students less than a week away from the start of the new school year, doctors advise that the time is right now for students to start getting back into their school routines.

This includes things like decreasing their use of digital devices to mimic what a school day would feel like. This is because students will have less access to things like their cell phones while they're in class, so scaling back on screen time by a little bit every day can help ease this transition.

This is the first school year where there is a cell phone ban across all Iowa schools after Governor Kim Reynolds signed a law restricting cell phone use in Iowa classrooms during instructional time last session. Local school boards adopted their own policies this summer.

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