 |  Interactions Access Writing, 4/e Pamela Hartmann,
Los Angeles Unified School District
James Mentel,
Los Angeles Unified School District
Children and Sleep| Narrator: Have your children been staying up later and later this summer? And has it been harder and harder to wake them?Mom: Time to get up sweetie. Are you awake? They're little. They're young. They don't like to get up.Narrator: Now mix late night TV habits and school early hours and you could have serious problems.Doctor: They may get up in the middle of the class and the teacher looks at them and says, “What are you doing?” Then they start becoming a behavior problem.Narrator: All because they are sleep deprived?Doctor: All because they are sleep deprived. Children need 10 hours of sleep a night. But few get it. Sleep specialists at Baylor College of Medicine say computers are also causing many children to lose sleep.Narrator: Fortunately children don't get as much light from a television screen. The screens tend not to be as bright and children sit further back from them.Mom 2: Good morning, Erin. Time to get up.Erin: Already?Mom 2: Already, time for school.Narrator: To ease a child into an earlier schedule, he says allow one day to move their internal clock up an hour.Doctor: So what you need to do is progressively move the bedtimes earlier and the rise times earlier. Have them be exposed to bright lights in the morning.Narrator: If kids don't get enough sleep, it can affect their memory and concentration.Doctor: Sleep is something you brain does. OK? It's not, your body rests, your brain sleeps, and it sleeps so that it works properly. |
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