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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
Message-ID: <528@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 09:57:57 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 09:57:57 1985
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> 
> Well, anyway for me and my family a set bedtime on school/week  
> nights works the best.  We still have fights with ouy youngest child,
> about going to and staying in bed, our older childern accept the
> bedtime, often preceeding it with a half an hour or so of reading
> or quiet time in their rooms, both childern are asleep within ten
> minutes of the nine o'clock bedtime  and don't complain.  The
> bedtime is lifted during weekends, school holidays and during
> the summer.  
> 

	I'm surprised no one's mentioned the other reason for early
bedtimes. Children, young ones especially, are busy growing ! They
need lots of sleep in order to grow. Children who regularly don't get
enough sleep are going to be stunted in many ways. Their bodies won't
get the same opporunity for growth, they'll catch more colds, they 
won't do as well in school. They really need 9-10 hours of sleep a night,
more than your average adult (tho this adult would LOVE to get 10 hours 
of sleep a night !).

-- 
jcpatilla

"At night, the ice weasels come."


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