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Ample research shows that adolescents and teens many of whom average three-plus hours of homework per night, on top of after-school extracurriculars and/or jobs do not get enough sleep simply because their days start so early.
And new research published this week in the journal Sleep bolsters that argument, analyzing survey data from children in a large, diverse Colorado school district with more than 55,000 students, whose school start times were pushed back because their district wanted to give them an opportunity to get more rest.
The researchers followed students from 2017 (pre-change) to 2019 (after the time change had been in effect for some time). During that time, middle school start times were pushed back by 40 to 60 minutes, while high schools began the day 70 minutes later.
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Wondering about co-sleeping with an adolescent? Here are some tips to have in mind to make sure it s still working for everyone.
Many families embrace co-sleeping as a beloved nightly tradition, snuggling up close together at the end of a long day. For others, it’s more of a routine they fell into when their children were young and everyone was sleep-deprived, and they just never really changed things up as time went on.
But whatever the path that led families to long-term co-sleeping, there isn’t a lot of information out there about best practices once kids hit a certain age. And sharing a bed with, say, a 3-year-old is very different than sharing a bed with a 10-year-old. Their hours are different. Their needs for privacy are different. They just take up more space.
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As a pediatrician, I have a finely developed sixth sense for when parents are nearing their breaking point and I ll tell you: Between fatigue, high COVID-19 rates, a slower-than-expected vaccine roll-out, and an unclear vision of post-pandemic life, most parents seem to be teetering.
Kids are arguably suffering, too. We ve yet to define what sort of chronic stress our children are experiencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but science has shown us that toxic levels of childhood stress impair academic performance and are linked to diseases such as alcoholism, depression, eating disorders, heart disease, and even cancer.
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