How can you discuss and educate the parents with respect to their cultural differences about adequate sleep and how this may be affecting Tobias?…
Agreements with parents: Ask parents how much sleep their child will need , when their child should sleep and how the child likes to sleep…
Research in the 1990s found that later sleep and wake patterns among adolescents are biologically determined; the natural tendency for teenagers is to stay up late at night and wake up later in the morning.(NSF) This research indicates that school bells that ring as early as 7:00 a.m. in many parts of the country stand in stark contrast with adolescents' sleep patterns and needs.(NSF) Teens will most likely be avoid sleep because around 10p.m their brains is telling them…
A sleep pattern of 8-12 hours is enough for a school aged child. The do not need any naps. There are bedtime changes due to activities from school such as homework and other interests…
Firstly, there are a plethora of other variables preventing students from adequate sleep. Such examples include an excruciating amount of homework, extra-curricular activities and striving to maintain the Triangle of Health. These additional issues make it even more difficult to get enough sleep. The large amount of homework sometimes has students staying up all hours of the night. Some might argue that if students manage their time efficiently they should be able to go to sleep at a reasonable hour, but even the most organized, intelligent students have trouble completing their huge quantity of homework by the time recommended getting to bed. Next, students are greatly encouraged to participate in after school activities, however, enough sleep is practically impossible to attain when most activities run until five and time is lost to complete work. Finally, students are educated in health class to maintain the Triangle of Health, a diagram representing three crucial elements to being an overall healthy person – physical, mental, and social health. So, students are trying to maintain each form of health by attempting to make time for friends and family, hobbies, at least a half hour of exercise, and stimulation of the…
Classical conditioning is defined as ‘’ a learning process by which a subject comes to respond in a specific way to a previously neutral stimulus after the subject repeatedly encounters the neutral that already elicits the response’’ (Freedictonary.com, 2013). Classical conditioning involves forming a link between two stimuli having a learned response as a result. There are three stages in which this happens Stage one: Before conditioning, Stage two: During conditioning and Stage three: After conditioning. Stage one includes a repetitive stimulus, which will automatically get a response. This is called a naturally occurring stimulus (NS) For example, salivating to the smell of food is a naturally occurring stimulus. Stage two the process of…
Classical conditioning refers to the involuntary responses that result from experiences that occur before a response. It occurs when you learn to associate two different stimuli. It involves a stimulus which has no affect and it is called the neutral stimulus. The neutral stimulus can be a person, place, or thing. The neutral stimulus, in classical conditioning, does not produce a response until it is paired with the unconditioned stimulus.…
If you had the choice, would you choose to sleep or go to school? Wouldn’t you want school to start later so you could get your nine hours? Well, it’s not as ideal as it seems. For the past few years, the Littleton Public Schools district, along with other school districts around the country, discussed the idea of the change of school start and end times. For the most part of this school year, the district has started to ask parents and students for their opinions and to come up with different solutions that will appeal to everyone. One of the biggest reasons that the district would need to change the times befalls the lack of sleep that students receive. Pamela McKeever, the leader of a study of adolescent sleep said that, "...research explains…
Going to bed at 2:00 in the morning?Guess what that won't happen any more with later start times.The students at middle school South in lake Zurich Illinois would like a later start time. The later start time has many learning benefits, and other schools have a good experience with later start times and a student survey that supports our reason.Starting school later have the most learning benefits.. Sleep deprivation cause the amygdala to overreact to negative stimuli because it's disconnected from brain areas normally moderating its response. The benefit of getting sleep is amygdala…
Participants interviewed claim to maintain regular sleep schedules with adult members getting 7 hours of hours of sleep each night, and children getting approximately 9 hours per night. Younger children still take daily naps to ensure emotional well-being. The mother denies the use of sleep aids, but the father does require their use at times. He travels often in his job and the frequent changes in physical location make it hard to get adequate sleep. A risk diagnosis of risk for sleep deprivation, along with an actual diagnosis for sleep pattern disturbance (Weber, 2005, p. 580) is identified in this pattern. A proposed intervention for these diagnosis’ would be to establish a bedtime routine to promote circadian rhythm of the effected…
When putting a toddler to bed, there are a number of complex steps if one wishes to be successful. There is the preparation, including dressing the child in its pajamas. There is the reading of the story, which must be done quickly, but with compassion and creativity. There is also the retrieval of the drink, which can deteriorate into a ploy to stay up quickly if not dealt with properly. Then there is the most difficult part, the battle to keep the child in bed without having to physically restrain him into it. If done properly, bedtime can be a peaceful time, a quiet ending to a long day. It is only when one does not follow the rules of engagement that bedtime can deteriorate into a battle for the ages.…
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As you may know there is much research that has been done on the subject matter of sleep as there most certainly will be in the future. We are becoming more and more aware of the positive effects of getting enough sleep as well as the negative effects of lack of sleep. The article I chose entitled “Sleep Thieves” written by freelance Meryl Davids Landau, explains how some sleep studies which focused on children may help us to understand why it can be so difficult at times for our children to “just settle down.” Most parents know the relief of the first time their infant sleeps through the night. What they may not consider is the likelihood of a childhood of sleep disturbances caused by unassuming things such as the types of foods we feed to them or playing an educational game on the computer before bedtime. When I my children were approximately 6 years and younger my friends and family used to call me “The Sleep Warden” , and that I was. We (yes, “we”) had a strict bedtime and routines that we followed and we were all quite happy and well rested! No, you would not catch us out shopping with screaming kids at midnight. I always felt so bad for those kids.. they were obviously so exhausted and absolutely miserable. With that said this article has validated my neuroticism as well as opened my eyes to some things I hadn’t considered since I have relaxed a little as a retired Sleep Warden. One of the most interesting things I found was about Sleep Apnea. Basically, sleep apnea occurs when a person stops breathing several times while they are asleep. Not only is this quite dangerous- you aren’t breathing!- but it also disrupts sleep causing the person to miss out on obtaining the very essential deep sleep. To take it a step further, children that suffer from sleep apnea often also suffer from behavioral problems and learning disabilities, not to mention high blood pressure. I would think that this is probably underdiagnosed just due to lack…
When it comes to sleep with me there is no such thing. Its late night study sessions and homework for me. Some times I wish my girls would go to sleep earlier, but that don't happen. Katlin wakes up a number of time during the night. She has night terrors, so her sleeping sound is not something I see very often. When she does sleep all the way threw the night its peace and quiet, well until Kadence wakes up. She still wakes up in the middle of the night wanting a bottle or sippie cup. That can at times…
Set a regular bedtime. Go to bed at the same time every night. Choose a time when you normally feel tired, so that you don’t toss and turn. Try not to break this routine on weekends when it may be tempting to stay up late. If you want to change your bedtime, help your body adjust by making the change in small daily increments, such as 15 minutes earlier or later each day.…