Home News Here’s How Your Teens Spend Their Time & It’s a Lot Different Than We Did at Their Age by Shahrzad WarkentinMarch 20, 2019 Alexis Brown/Unsplash Search more like this sleepresearch centerscreen timeafter schoolfree timeschool yearteenhomeworkleisuresportbathingnew researchclockdress Advertisement Trending Now Celeb & Entertainment Melanie Lynskey Talks about Being Body-Shamed in Hollywood & ‘Starving Herself’ Viral & Trending Viral TikTok Explains Why You Don’t Owe Toxic Parents a Relationship with Your Kids Celeb & Entertainment ‘Bluey’ Season 3 is Coming to Disney+ This Week! Viral & Trending Dad Gets Shamed for Using a Leash with 5-Year-Old Quintuplets News Chrissy Teigen Announces She’s Pregnant Almost 2 Years after Losing Jack Advertisement If you think life for teens has changed since you were one, you’re not wrong. New research shows how teens spend their time and things are definitely different.A new Pew Research Center survey has found that the way teens spend their time has shifted in the past decade. The biggest changes were found in the amount of time teens spent doing homework and sleeping. On average, teens spent an hour a day doing homework, up from 44 minutes 10 years ago and just half an hour in the 1990s. Teens today also spent more time sleeping with an average of over nine and a half hours of sleep a night, a 22-minute increase over teens a decade ago. photo: Alexis Brown via UnsplashTeens report having an average of five hours and 44 minutes of leisure time daily, a major chunk of that is spent on screens. No surprise. Teens clock an average of three hours and four minutes of screen time daily. This has held steady for the last decade, but what has changed is how teens spend the remainder of that free time.If you had an after school job, chances are your own teen won’t. Teens are spending less time on paid jobs during the school year at just 26 minutes a day, on average, versus 57 minutes in the mid-1990s, which reflects the fact that fewer teens are working in general. Teens are also spending less time on social activities like going to parties, sporting events or concerts dropping 16 minutes per day on average in the last ten years.One thing that has remained the same is that there is a difference in the way girls and boys spend their time. Girls devote more of their day to homework and grooming activities, like haircuts, bathing and getting dressed. Boys spend more time on leisure activities, including screen time, and sports on average. Girls and boys also report feeling differently about their days. While girls are more likely to say they feel nervous or stressed about their day, they are also more likely to say that they feel excited about it.—Shahrzad Warkentin RELATED STORIES New Study Finds Teens Worry about This the Most. 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