'Unplugged' Teens Get Better Grades & Develop Skills

'Susan Maushart lived out every parent's fantasy: She unplugged her teenagers. For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cell phones and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night like "evil crickets." And she stopped carrying her iPhone into the bathroom. The result of what she grandly calls "The Experiment" was more OMG than LOL — and nothing less than an immersion in RL (real life)...Read more: