What happened when teens tried out tech-free bedrooms?

A group of young people from Bradford agreed to remove all technologies from the bedroom for five days to see how they would deal with.

We followed Elizabeth and Henry to capture the highest and the lords and see how long they took before sin.

Thirteen -year -old Elizabeth says he rarely spent time with his family after school.

Sabrina Carpenter fan, who confesses himself, normally goes to the bedroom to watch the YouTube videos of your pop idol and chat with friends.

“My bedroom is basically my peace place, or he says.

However, one of the four young people in secondary school to sign up for a non -technology bedroom struggle.

All of this year’s Teen Summit, a project from Radio 5 Live and BBC Bitelessly Working Support.

Annual activity is investigating problems affecting young people from smartphones to social media and knife crimes and false information.

Young people will still be able to use technologies, including phones, tablets and laptops – but only in the common areas of the house.

“It will be difficult,” Elizabeth says. “I’m a person who likes to be in my room.”

Elizabeth’s father Robin thinks that he will “crack before the weekend” and take his phone to the bedroom.

“This will be a challenge for him, El Elizabeth says.

Actually, he made a bet with his daughter.

“If it cracks, the father gets a big bag of wine gums.”

Other students at the Elizabeth’s West Yorkshire School are also participating in the project, including the 15 -year -old Eliza, who says that the lack of special space to talk to friends.

“I plan to make it as disturbing as possible [my family]”he says,” on the stairs “and” on the sofa, but they want to sit in common family areas, such as the plan to spend time.

Michelle, 15, plans to “read a book to fall asleep” instead of staying on her phone and laptop.

He usually says that a normal night sleep can be as low as “five hours, max”.

13 -year -old Henry spends most of his time online with friends in home games up to nine or 10 at night.

But he says, “The last time I’ve stayed is probably around 2 in the morning,” he says.

“Sometimes I will be a game, I will even forget to drink water.”

In July, new rules come into force. Online security law Make and try the Internet safer for young people.

Children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza says that these changes should set boundaries without telephone without telephone before bedtime or hanging out before going to bed to “welcome and delay”, while “welcome and delayed”.

Two thousand online surveys between the ages of 13-18, Survation for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC BitelesseIt suggests that 38% of the young people who describe it as a player have seven or more hours a week in bedrooms.

One of 10 boys spends more than 20 hours a week away from their families in their rooms.

Henry hid the gamestation in a cupboard at the beginning of the week to try and avoid sin, but only two hours of “about two hours” before putting it in the living room.

An area where her mother Alyson usually spends their evenings has to remind Henry’s friends not to swear while talking on their headphones.

Although it means “he can’t speak freely” with his friends, Alyson says he helps to “open the conversation” between the couple.

He also noticed how much of Henry’s friendships were built around the online game.

“This is the biggest part. This is not really about playing games, the social direction.”

Another bonus of leaving the technology out of the bedroom at night means that he did not capture “billions of videos” in Tiktok just before he starts to sleep.

Henry already says he was sleeping much better, which was “helping at school … in all issues and in all directions”.

Developed Sleep Quality, Digital Human Sciences Professor in London University College. Kaitlyn said Regehr would expect young people to experience after removing digital devices from their rooms.

“There are increasing reports that they feel tired during the school day because of their smartphone usage.”

He adds that young people still need too much sleep ,, which can be broken through smartphone screens with night notifications or exposure to blue light at midnight.

Thinking on Henry and Elizabeth’s plays, Dr Regehr includes the basic security checks that parents can do, who plays with a young man, not to open geographical locations and check whether the themes in the game are suitable for age.

On Wednesday, Elizabeth said that he had found unexpected benefits and spent his evenings by investigating ballet lessons and spending the chocolate bread “boredom”.

“If I still had my technology, I would postpone cooking [until] Next week, “he says.

His family, Robin and Grace, says that they have noticed a change they choose to watch documentaries on Family TV instead of online videos in Elizabeth’s room.

“[The project has] Considering the idea that there are other things to do as well as going to your mobile phone and computer, Rob Robin says.

As the project ends, four young people change the stories of non -technology weeks.

Michelle says that he has given up almost many times as “a little peace and quiet” he wants, and Eliza says with his family that being a “really bad mood” means that he went to the cinema with his friends.

“It was really fun… It was much better than sitting at home, or he says.

“Normally I wouldn’t do these things, mostly I would choose to stay on my phone after school.”

So what about the book Michelle plans to read during the week?

“I think I’ve read a part, that’s it,” he says, “The truth will not happen.”

BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Bitelesse 2,224 13 to 18 years of age, young people were asked for various aspects of life, including smartphone habits, game and screen time.

. Results of the questionnaireVoting company is carried out by survival:

• More than one -third of young people said they had five or more hours on their phones on an average day.
• 39 % will consider release technology and screens from bedrooms to reduce the time spent on their devices.
• Other ways of minimizing time in their devices include the use of established settings such as screen -time covers (59%) or planning of normal screen time breaks (66%).
• 25% say that their parents set clearly limits about how much time they spend on technology, games or social media, 47% say that their parents sometimes set boundaries
• However, more than a quarter (27%) says that their parents do not set any limits.

At home, Henry signed the door of the ‘Tech Free Zone’ bedroom and carries the PlayStation back to his desk, but he says he will continue with some new habits during the week.

“I will keep my phone out of my bedroom at night because it helped my sleep very much.”

“I’m really proud,” says his mother Alyson. “He did a really good job.”

Elizabeth’s father, Robin, is similar to his daughter’s flexibility – but that means he lost his bet.

“An agreement is an agreement,” he says two packs of desserts. “Congratulations.”

BBC asked for measures to help young users from social media and technology companies to limit screen times.

• Tiktok says that parents can identify the screen time limits and prevent their children using the ‘family matching tool’ by using the ‘family matching tool’ at certain times. In addition, if a user under 16 years of age uses Tiktok after 22 o’clock, it will require a ‘wind down’ feature with a full -screen reminister.
• Snapchat pointed to the UK’s parental guides and claimed that the parents had identified screen -time instructions with their parents.
• Instagram Mother Company Meta, Introducing ‘Instagram Teen Accounts’, which passed to sleep mode after 22:00, says that they remind users to leave the application after 60 minutes. Instagram, Facebook and Messenger also have parental control tools.
• Youtube says that it has “solid” parent controls and has recently made a break and time to sleep.