So I keep reading over and over about how teenagers' natural clocks are programmed to a stay-up-late-get-up-late setting. So therefore starting school before 8:30 a.m. is silly
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The "Eight consecutive hours" thing is also a very recent development. As recently as a hundred years ago, it was extremely common for everyone to go to bed not long after supper (not dinner. Dinner was the big midday meal) about 8 or 9, sleep for about 4 hours, get up around midnight or 1, have a snack, do some stuff (such as that dirty stuff you don't want to do with your kids awake), then go back to sleep for 3 or 4 hours and then get up for the day. I know I'd not function that way, but I've been trained into 8-hour comas for 30 years. However, years of night jobs and strange schedules (like 12-hour work days that switch from day to night every two weeks) tells me that sleep schedules are inherently malleable and that the best sleep you've ever got is when you stick to a schedule, whatever that schedule might be
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Oh, and I get your dinner/supper thing. My family's all old farmers, so it's still breakfast, dinner and supper to us. When my mom invites people to dinner, I usually break in w/ an explanation or they wonder why dinner is at 12:30!
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Oh, and I get your dinner/supper thing. My family's all old farmers, so it's still breakfast, dinner and supper to us. When my mom invites people to dinner, I usually break in w/ an explanation or they wonder why dinner is at 12:30!
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