Parental Guidance Takes the Week Off

Parental Guidance will return next week.

* The next question: A recent study found that infants who sleep in rooms with night lights or full lighting are at greater risk of becoming nearsighted than those who sleep in the dark. But critics called the research preliminary and faulted the study for not including data about whether the parents are nearsighted. Facing such conflicting information, what should we, as parents, do in our children’s rooms?

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