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Sleepless Kids Are Troubled Kids
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 School boards have an important role to play, too, Mindell said.
"Many high schools are starting now at 7:15 in the morning, and that's completely against what is happening with teenagers' internal clocks," she explained. "Their clocks actually shift later [than adults] -- that's just a simple biological function."
So, later school start times can make a big difference. According to Mindell, school districts that have made such a change "have seen huge, positive responses in their kids' grades."
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There's more on helping children get their shut-eye at the National Sleep Foundation.
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Last updated 8/26/2007
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SOURCES: Jodi Mindell, Ph.D., associate director, Sleep Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and co-author, Take Charge of Your Child's Sleep; Ann Halbower, M.D., medical director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Program, Johns Hopkins University Children's Center, Baltimore; Aug. 22, 2006, Public Library of Science Medicine
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