BY JAMEY TUCKER, Consumer Technology Reporter

In Greystones, Ireland, kids get their first smartphones when they enter secondary school -what we call

seventh grade, when the kids are about 13 years old.

So the question we wanted to look at is can you tell a difference in the kids who grew up with a phone and those who didn’t.

At Temple Carrig Secondary School, chaplain Josh Barrington says the signs are hard to miss.

“The more they’re on the screen, the less they sleep. And the less they sleep, the more we have

mental health problems,” says Barrington.

He says anxiety and stress have spiked right alongside smartphone use. Beginning in 2008, the

same year the first iPhone was introduced.

“I don’t think it’s a debate anymore. It used to be people questioning, now you cannot have the

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