What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

So how can we help stop our kids from racing on empty and losing years of essential sleep? The first step is to realize how much we contribute to perpetuating a work ethic that celebrates pushing ourselves and our children to the limits. We need to treat sleep as essential to our teenagers’ well-being and success by teaching them that sleep is as important as nutrition, exercise, studying, and free time. Over the past several years we’ve created national guidelines for eating and exercise, shouldn’t we do the same for sleep?

We can also make changes in our schools, like advocating for later high school start times. An adolescent’s brain works on a different circadian rhythm than that of adults — theirs thrives with later wake-up times. After the start time at a high school in Edina, Minnesota, was changed from 7:25 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., verbal SAT scores for the top 10 percent of students increased by several hundred points. The increase could not be attributed to any variable other than later start times.

Schools should also adopt block schedules and bring back study halls, both of which reduce the number of classes students must prepare for each day and give them more in-school time to complete academic assignments rather than requiring them to put in a grueling “second shift” after school.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/sleep-deprivation-and-teens-walking-zombies/2012/03/10/gIQAr0QP3R_blog.html

Sleep deprivation and teens: ‘Walking zombies’

(via englishteacheronline)

Funny story. My brother and I had to get up in the morning at half 5 to get a bus at 6 that got us to school for a 7.15 start in the morning.

(via twelve-year-old-ageless-god)

I have fallen asleep in class in secondary school and college. But never at uni because of all the free study hours we get during the day, with a day free from lectures and seminars, perhaps this could be adopted for primary, secondary schools and college.

(via sexgenderbody)

Oh god, teenage insomnia flashback. My last two years of school, I was getting up at either 5:30am or 6:30am six days a week because of my commute (I did weekend sport on Saturdays and some days I had morning classes). I frequently fell asleep on the train, at lunch and at my desk, but come bedtime, I was so wired from forcing myself to wake up and think that it was literally impossible to fall asleep before 11pm. Two years of school on a maximum of what averaged out to be between 4 and 6 hours sleep a night in term time almost destroyed me. 

Once my final exams were over, I went nocturnal for nearly three weeks and slept almost fifteen hours a day for the whole time. I have never felt more exhausted in my life.   

(Source: englishteacheronline-blog, via sexgenderbody)

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