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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
10:59:00 AM EDT
Hearing More Underworld
Here's an article that certainly confirms with my experience as a kid: Kids who don't get enough sleep can't think straight:
Dr. Avi Sadeh of Tel Aviv University is one of the authorities in the field. A couple of years ago, Sadeh sent 77 fourth-graders and sixth-graders home with randomly drawn instructions to either go to bed earlier or stay up later for three nights... After the third night’s sleep, a researcher went to the school in the morning to test the children’s neurobiological functioning. The test they used is highly predictive of both achievement-test scores and how teachers will rate a child’s ability to maintain attention in class.
Sadeh knew that his experiment was a big risk. “The last situation I wanted to be in was reporting to my grantors, ‘Well, I deprived the subjects of only an hour, and there was no measurable effect at all, sorry—but can I have some more money for my other experiments?’” he says.
Sadeh needn’t have worried. The effect was indeed measurable—and sizable. The performance gap caused by an hour’s difference in sleep was bigger than the normal gap between a fourth-grader and a sixth-grader. Which is another way of saying that a slightly sleepy sixth-grader will perform in class like a mere fourth-grader. “A loss of one hour of sleep is equivalent to [the loss of] two years of cognitive maturation and development,” Sadeh explains.
The article notes that part of the problem is parents overschedule their children to a considerable degree, in art because they're paranoid about that whole "will my child get into a college" thing, but to be fair to parents, lets note that kids themselves are always itchin' to stay up late. I could relate to you the epic struggles we have getting our kid into bed at the appointed hour, but if you have ever had a kid, I'm sure you don't need to be told about it.
Regardless, I have a tendency to agree with the general drift of the article, which is that a healthy and well-functioning kid is better than one overscheduled into exhaustion. Now, if only I could get enough sleep. I was up until 3 last night, for no particularly good reason. Sigh.
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10:59:00 AM EDT
Hearing More Underworld
Let Your Kids Sleep
Here's an article that certainly confirms with my experience as a kid: Kids who don't get enough sleep can't think straight:
Dr. Avi Sadeh of Tel Aviv University is one of the authorities in the field. A couple of years ago, Sadeh sent 77 fourth-graders and sixth-graders home with randomly drawn instructions to either go to bed earlier or stay up later for three nights... After the third night’s sleep, a researcher went to the school in the morning to test the children’s neurobiological functioning. The test they used is highly predictive of both achievement-test scores and how teachers will rate a child’s ability to maintain attention in class.
Sadeh knew that his experiment was a big risk. “The last situation I wanted to be in was reporting to my grantors, ‘Well, I deprived the subjects of only an hour, and there was no measurable effect at all, sorry—but can I have some more money for my other experiments?’” he says.
Sadeh needn’t have worried. The effect was indeed measurable—and sizable. The performance gap caused by an hour’s difference in sleep was bigger than the normal gap between a fourth-grader and a sixth-grader. Which is another way of saying that a slightly sleepy sixth-grader will perform in class like a mere fourth-grader. “A loss of one hour of sleep is equivalent to [the loss of] two years of cognitive maturation and development,” Sadeh explains.
The article notes that part of the problem is parents overschedule their children to a considerable degree, in art because they're paranoid about that whole "will my child get into a college" thing, but to be fair to parents, lets note that kids themselves are always itchin' to stay up late. I could relate to you the epic struggles we have getting our kid into bed at the appointed hour, but if you have ever had a kid, I'm sure you don't need to be told about it.
Regardless, I have a tendency to agree with the general drift of the article, which is that a healthy and well-functioning kid is better than one overscheduled into exhaustion. Now, if only I could get enough sleep. I was up until 3 last night, for no particularly good reason. Sigh.
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Thanks I can use for class. I give them one on the consequences of sleep deprivation!
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If kids don't get the proper sleep, the cocaine makes them all jittery.
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Proper sleeping habits have always alluded me as well. I'm not sure why. I'll blame Venus. I mean, what's it gonna do to me?
10/18/07 7:27 AM
fights off sleep by making himself look
like a plough (aka plow?) with
butt in the air, head in the ground,
then screaming in a desperately
accusatory fashion as if it's all my fault.
He sleeps best in the car. The movement
is some kind of atavistic connection
to being inside Mother? He sleeps a
lot however. In the car he sings along
with Beethoven. Honest! He had another
breakthrough in that, he finally got himself
to sing along in the Chorale section at the end,
proving how important is sleep, blessed sleep.
Barry
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