You know about junk food. Now there’s sleep that’s not so good for you: junk sleep. And there’s a good chance that your teenager is getting some. A BBC report says: Too many teenagers are damaging their health by not getting enough sleep and by falling asleep with electrical gadgets on, researchers say. A third [...]
Junk Sleep
High Schools Consider Sleeping In
Via EdNews, Newsday.com writes about a trend to start high school classes later in the morning. According to behavioral experts, adolescents generally need eight to nine hours’ sleep each night, beginning around 11 p.m., when most start feeling drowsy. Ideally, then, most students wouldn’t awaken until about 7:30 a.m — about the time most on [...]
Yes, Sleep Matters
Is your high schooler (or middle schooler) driving you crazy with her sleep schedule? If you think it matters, you’re right! A new study (reported in Science), measures how an all-nighter impacts the ability to learn new information. Your child may not (yet) be doing all-nighters, but the study “suggests that just as sleep is [...]
