Posted on 08/26/2014 7:01:54 PM PDT by SMGFan
American teenagers don't get enough sleep, often because their "biological sleep rhythms" clash with the wake-up times required by their schools' early starts -- and that's a problem says the American Academy of Pediatrics. The physicians group this week recommended that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.
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now THEY knew a bit about Global Cooling
More like up at at crack of dawn to do chores....
“Can’t they go to bed much earlier.”
Some teenage boys have what amounts to a sleep disorder. They *can*not* go to sleep early, and, no matter what time they go to bed, waking up early is agony. (And no, that’s not hyperbole. I’d rather get into the ring with Mike Tyson than go through that again.)
When I was a teen, school started at 8:30 and went on until 3:30. This meant I had to be on the bus at 8:10 and we didn’t wake up until 7 to get showered, have a hot leisurely breakfast, do hair and makeup, and have a few minutes at the bus stop to compare homework and boys.
When my kids were in high school a couple of years ago, they had to be at the bus stop at 6:20. This meant getting up no later than 5:30. Which means the whole family had to go to bed early, since the noise of one or two people getting up, showering, and preparing breakfast in the darkness would wake everybody up. So we all had to be in bed by ten if we were going to get seven hours of sleep. That almost never happened—there is simply too much to do after work in the evening. We were ALL sleep-deprived and cranky during the school year. I hated it.
“We were ALL sleep-deprived and cranky during the school year.”
It’s the morning people. They must be stopped.
That’s sort of a problem I have. If I go to sleep before 10pm, I’m awake before 1am. I just can’t stay asleep if I go to bed too early.
So should we adjust work schedules to accommodate the sleeping requirements of the poor little darlings, too? After all they would be just too sleepy to get up at 6 a.m. to be at work at 7.
Those who join the military are going to have a rather rude awakening during boot.
So should we adjust work schedules to accommodate the sleeping requirements of the poor little darlings, too? After all they would be just too sleepy to get up at 6 a.m. to be at work at 7.
What in the world are you talking about? We’re taling about children, why should they get up at 6 and be wherever they’re going at 7? That’s just too early. When familes have other things to do.(So thankful I didn’t have to!!!) Absolutely no reason for it. Ridiculous.
I sure hope you don’t have any kids!!
“I’m awake before 1am.”
You could get up before the morning people and put things back right.
And your kids will grow up thinking the world should change its time schedule to suit them.
Why? Worried my kids will not grow up to be pampered little liberals like you and your kids?
My point is the world already changed its time schedule to force such early school start times. It wasn’t always that way, and it was a really bad change.
some kids around here need to be at their bus stops by 6:30am
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