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Teenagers aren't lazy when they won't get up in the morning, their bodies actually require 9-10 hours of sleep normally to be awake, where as a normal adults re
by surge 13y ago
Teenagers aren't lazy when they won't get up in the morning, their bodies actually require 9-10 hours of sleep normally to be awake, where as a normal adults require 8 hours to function at peak. They're still growing/developing, more to the point their brain is still going through a fundamental stage of brain development where new neural connections are being made, and a lot of that goes on during the sleep cycle, on top of holding a full schedule.
http://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.htm http://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.htm
- josefresco 13y agoFrom looking at the chart referenced in your link, it would seem to me that our youngest school age kids should get into school the latest, and teenagers the earliest. If we extend this logic, college age kids should be having classes even earlier (try to read that without chuckling). Yet most of the news/research I read is about appeasing groggy teenagers. Why aren't we focusing on elementary and middle schoolers? One of my other replies in this thread was about how locally they've shifted high schoolers to a later start time and as a result the younger kids are forced into an earlier time schedule. Makes no sense if we're using the data referenced.
- scott_s 13y agoOther research indicates that teenager's brains tend to receive the sleep hormone later than everyone else. Hence the drive for later start times.