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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 21, 2018, 01:47:56 pm

Title: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: rangerrebew on February 21, 2018, 01:47:56 pm

Why teens need up to 10 hours' sleep
February 21, 2018, Flinders University
 

Technology, other distractions and staying up late make is difficult, but researchers say teenagers need to make time for 8-10 hours of sleep a night to optimise their performance and maintain good health and wellbeing.

As soon as teens get less than nine hours sleep, attention deficits accumulate and jetlag-type behaviour starts to kick in – putting them at risk of poor performance at school and even personal injury through accidents, including car crashes if they drive.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-teens-hours.html
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Polly Ticks on February 21, 2018, 07:15:58 pm
Mmhmm.  And my kids' school bus comes at 6:42.  That means they would have to go to bed around 8:00pm in order to get those 10 hours of sleep. 
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: LauraTXNM on February 22, 2018, 03:22:47 am
Mmhmm.  And my kids' school bus comes at 6:42.  That means they would have to go to bed around 8:00pm in order to get those 10 hours of sleep.

This is why the AMA recommends middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 03:51:19 am
Mmhmm.  And my kids' school bus comes at 6:42.  That means they would have to go to bed around 8:00pm in order to get those 10 hours of sleep.

I homeschool.  I don't know how "normal" families are able to get to school at the early hours some of them start.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 03:59:09 am
I homeschool.  I don't know how "normal" families are able to get to school at the early hours some of them start.

They're called buses.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 04:00:10 am
They're called buses.

Yeah yeah, and I rode the short one and wore a helmet.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 04:01:18 am
Yeah yeah, and I rode the short one and wore a helmet.

Is that some sort of hipster lingo for some sex act?
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 04:02:20 am
Is that some sort of hipster lingo for some sex act?

Forget it, gramps.  You're too old to understand.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 04:13:37 am
Forget it, gramps.  You're too old to understand.

I'm old but I have a 19 year old Russian girlfriend who knows all this shit.....at least she better or I'm putting her ass back on the plane.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 04:19:18 am
I'm old but I have a 19 year old Russian girlfriend who knows all this shit.....at least she better or I'm putting her ass back on the plane.

She'll get back on the plane herself when you ask her to "ride the short one".
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 04:24:26 am
She'll get back on the plane herself when you ask her to "ride the short one".

I don't know. I read an article on 4Chan that they like it really short over there. That's why they love Putin. He's 4'3".
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 04:29:03 am
I don't know. I read an article on 4Chan that they like it really short over there. That's why they love Putin. He's 4'3".

He's short but muscular.  Probably works out by digging holes with his bare hands.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 04:34:45 am
He's short but muscular.  Probably works out by digging holes with his bare hands.

I can do other more productive things with my bare hands.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 04:37:35 am
I can do other more productive things with my bare hands.

Awesome.  You should make videos and upload to YouTube.  I bet you'd get a lot of hits.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 04:41:58 am
Awesome.  You should make videos and upload to YouTube.  I bet you'd get a lot of hits.

Been there done that....

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuV_xVDJDY#)
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: RoosGirl on February 22, 2018, 04:44:12 am
Been there done that....

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuV_xVDJDY#)

Wow, that hand shadow of Trump is impressive.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 22, 2018, 04:45:25 am
Wow, that hand shadow of Trump is impressive.

They say that was worth 20K votes in WV alone.
Title: Re: Why teens need up to 10 hours’ sleep
Post by: Polly Ticks on February 22, 2018, 02:04:18 pm
This is why the AMA recommends middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30.

Maybe the local school districts will eventually catch up.