Futch's Journal of Psychology: SLEEP ARTICLES

sleeping in a comfortable bed is part of sleep hygiene

The Associated Professional Sleep Societies was talking about how sleep hygiene helps your GPA in college. People with poor sleep hygiene lower their GPA when they enter college by .98 and people who did not have that problem only dropped my .69. Sleep hygiene includes things like having a regular bed time and a regular wake time, and sleeping in a comfortable bed. I believe this article is important for people going to college because no one likes to lower their grades, especially when they are entering college. Reading this article makes me think of all those people studying until 5 in the morning and not getting a good grade, i also believe like they said in this article that there should be chats in school about sleep hygiene so people can improve their grades instead of dropping their GPA. Sleeping is very important so people reach their expected grades.

This article was about a later school start, the investigation was conducted by Zaw W. Htwe, MD, of Norwalk Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center in Norwalk, Conn. It explained how delaying school start by 40 minutes made kids more awake in the day. This increased the sleep time of children and it is recommendable that teens sleep at least 9 hours at night. The results of this investigation were that kids reported to be less sleepy during the day. I believe that it is very important that teens sleep at least nine hours because the brain develops through these years of life. I also believe that our school should change their entering school hours because most of the student’s at school seem very sleepy during the day, I believe that is because of their sleep deprivation.

This article was about how delaying the schools start time, would help students behaviors. The study was conducted by Judith A. Owens, M.D., M.P.H., of the Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, and colleagues. What they did was delay the schools start time by 30 minutes and have students take an online survey before and after the delay. Before people showed that they were very depressed and had bad days, but after the delay people seemed happier and less depressed. The results were that the delay helped people be less depressed and happier. I believe that all the school in the world should have AT LEAST a 30 minute delay in school start time. This would help teen agers by having them in a better mood, but it would also help teachers. I believe this would help teachers because being with someone in a good mood is better than being with someone in a bad mood and that is depressed. I believe teachers would have a better temper. Delaying a schools start time would be the best option for teen agers behavioral issues.