The bedside clock was blinking 2am when Jennifer McFall woke from a deep sleep, needing to visit the loo. In an attempt not to wake her two children, Charlie, ten, and Emmie, eight, she tiptoed through the darkened house.
As she passed her son’s room, however, she spied the familiar blue glow from his computer tablet coming through the crack in his door. ‘I popped my head around and there was Charlie engrossed in a YouTube clip about the game Minecraft, even though he had to get up for school just five hours later.
‘I asked him what on earth he thought he was doing and he insisted he’d just woken up and turned it on.’ Yet the bags under Charlie’s eyes, his grey, almost vampire-like pallor and filthy mood at breakfast the next morning told a different story. Full article
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