I never liked naps so I’d lay there pretending to be asleep but I was secretly learning the alphabet backwards.
The teachers thought I was dyslexic
i couldn’t count past twenty until I was around 5 years old, but the moment I figured the system out I knew I had found something more important to do during naptime than sleeping
Prepping for DUI checkpoints?
Similar for me but instead i was counting seconds and calculating power of twos, both of which they found really creepy. My mom came to pick me up once and this was hungary so the nurses had no idea what numbers i was saying and they asked my mom what the numbers were and she was already used to it that point and just answered power of twos. After that the staff thought my whole family was insane. Thankfully i was a gifted kid which means i excelled academically until 8th grade where i burned out completely and since have done nothing productive in my life…
I hate napping as an adult, but back then? Nap time slapped.
I am the exact opposite. Never able to nap as a kid, but at 40 naps are the tits!
Still failed ^^
I know a child nearly kicked out of day care for not napping. It happens.
Maybe I’d be too, dunno, spent 2/3 of childcare sick at home xD
I cheated, was pretending to be sleeping.
I slept all my time
IDK about any preschool I went, if I ever did, but kindergarten never had that, from what I recall. I attribute that to the class being a half day so they could fit 2 classes in per day. Small school, what can I say?
Depriving teenagers of sleep is a form of abuse, intended to teach them to accept the abuse to their body that a job will likely do later in life. Don’t be accepting of it. Don’t let them tell you obedience is right.
Just fucking go to bed earlier lol
Adolescent teenagers, however, have a different circadian rhythm from their young siblings. During puberty, the timing of the suprachiasmatic nucleus is shifted progressively forward: a change that is common across all adolescents, irrespective of culture or geography. So far forward, in fact, it passes even the timing of their adult parents.
As a nine-year-old, the circadian rhythm would have the child asleep by around nine p.m., driven in part by the rising tide of melatonin at this time in children. By the time that same individual has reached sixteen years of age, their circadian rhythm has undergone a dramatic shift forward in its cycling phase. The rising tide of melatonin, and the instruction of darkness and sleep, is many hours away. As a consequence, the sixteen-year-old will usually have no interest in sleeping at nine p.m. Instead, peak wakefulness is usually still in play at that hour. By the time the parents are getting tired, as their circadian rhythms take a downturn and melatonin release instructs sleep—perhaps around ten or eleven p.m., their teenager can still be wide awake. A few more hours must pass before the circadian rhythm of a teenage brain begins to shut down alertness and allow for easy, sound sleep to begin. This, of course, leads to much angst and frustration for all parties involved on the back end of sleep. Parents want their teenager to be awake at a “reasonable” hour of the morning. Teenagers, on the other hand, having only been capable of initiating sleep some hours after their parents, can still be in their trough of the circadian downswing. Like an animal prematurely wrenched out of hibernation too early, the adolescent brain still needs more sleep and more time to complete the circadian cycle before it can operate efficiently, without grogginess. If this remains perplexing to parents, a different way to frame and perhaps appreciate the mismatch is this: asking your teenage son or daughter to go to bed and fall asleep at ten p.m. is the circadian equivalent of asking you, their parent, to go to sleep at seven or eight p.m.
Mathew Walker, Why We Sleep, Chapter 5, p 91
Oh yeah, come home from school, do homework, go to bed, go to school. Repeat for years. It’s not like people need free time in their lives or anything, certainly not during one of the most stressful deveplomental staged there is.
Ah the workload of a teenager. Absolutely no freetime. Lol
During puberty, youth undergo a shift in their circadian clocks that makes it harder for them to fall asleep until later in the night. Meanwhile, they can stay awake longer before experiencing an increase in the pressure to sleep
https://www.apa.org/topics/children/school-start-times
https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/12/12/high-school-start-times-study/
More to the original point, you don’t need a bunch of scientists with lab coats and clipboards to tell you teenagers don’t sleep well on an early schedule, you could just ask one. Not to mention the homework load etc…
I was one. Most of the time I was awake late because I thought there was more important shit to be done. I definitely could’ve gone to bed earlier.
Duuuuude, you’re talking as if all teachers are in on this conspiracy theory just to make sure we all become slaves.
Teachers are mostly just kind people doing there best and I meant no implication to the contrary. The school system is fucked though and making kids lose sleep is part of it.
It’s more of a concept now.
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Thesaurus.
Have you tried hunt to bed at 10pm and getting 8 hours of sleep
i jerked off and slept. did try to share the discovery with next-laying camarad
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Isn’t that thing in Japan? Be nice to have nap time at work.
It’s a thing in China, usually after lunch to around 2 pm, most even use camp beds for it
But then they work until like 6pm at least
