Push on to let teens sleep in

Greenwich Time (Connecticut) ^ | May 18, 2006 | Keach Hagey

[Stingray51]

Do Amish teenagers and other teens in low-tech settings where getting up early to milk the cows, etc... is required also stay up to all odd hours of the night and then fall apart if they can't sleep until noon? What about 17-19 year-olds in military training? Don't they get used to early lights out and early rising? I know I did.

My guess is that this movement is more about justifying and facilitating these parents' hands-off approach to child-rearing than anything based on real science.

[SerpentDove]

They could go to bed earlier.

Problem solved.

[RockinRight]

You know, I STILL hate getting up early. But, life requires it. Boo hoo.

[dighton]

Go away, Sergeant, my circadian rhythms . . .

[tcostell]

Every workday for the last 2 years I rose (usually a minute or two before my alarm) at 3:15AM to be in my office by 5:30. I get more done before the Marines get up, than most people do all day.

Don't cry to me about early rising....tell it to Ben Franklin.

[CT-Freeper]

Even many high school teachers that I know (my wife included) believe that High Schoolers should start the day a little bit later than they currently do.

My wife hates having to administer a Chemistry test first period (which starts at 7:20 in her school). Half the kids are still asleep.

[LIConFem]

Greenwich and Wilton. Why am I not shocked.

[rattrap]

Where's my tiny violin?

[proudpapa]

It's hard to get in trouble when you're sound asleep.

[null and void]

Don't cry to me about early rising....tell it to Ben Franklin.

Early to rise
and early to bed,
makes a man healthy,
but socialy dead

[latina4dubya]

You know, I STILL hate getting up early. But, life requires it. Boo hoo.

me too... i'm a night owl myself... but hey--you gotta do what you gotta do... as homeschoolers, we typically don't start "school" until 10:30-11ish... but we do chores before that...

[Squawk 8888]

I don't think that's too unreasonable. When I was in school the start time was 9am. I think a lot of schools began starting at earlier times to accommodate working parents with long commutes.

[JamesP81]

My guess is that this movement is more about justifying and facilitating these parents' hands-off approach to child-rearing than anything based on real science.

I think you've got it. Saturdays are for sleeping late.

[Racer1]

They are still asleep because chances are they got up just in time to make it to school. No discipline is taught now days. If one gets up at least an 1.5 hours early, one is more awake. I get up 2.25 hours early, when I get to work,(usually 30 to 40 minutes early I'm ready. It baffles me people I see dragging themselves to work at the last minute or even late.

[mlc9852]

Our government is not interested in logic! You should know that.

[USS Alaska]

Even many high school teachers that I know (my wife included) believe that High Schoolers should start the day a little bit later than they currently do.

My wife hates having to administer a Chemistry test first period (which starts at 7:20 in her school). Half the kids are still asleep.

Let the poor babies sleep until noon, that will get them ready for a lifetime of SSI payments. Then we can wail about jobs going off-shore.

[latina4dubya]

Every workday for the last 2 years I rose (usually a minute or two before my alarm) at 3:15AM to be in my office by 5:30. I get more done before the Marines get up, than most people do all day.

and i get more done between the hours of 11:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. i get up at about 8:30 a.m. i take about a 20 minute nap in the afternoon...

[dinoparty]

Yep. If they push back the start time, then the kids will just stay up even later instant messaging.

[Racer1]

Bush's fault. I had to say it. :)