El Greco
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JamesM said:
This is very interesting. I recall reading theories about how changing your everyday routines can make you smarter. Changing the sequence of dressing, the way you hold a cup, the way you type, the route you follow to the door, using your non-dominant hand for everyday tasks etc. And also tracing the origin of your thoughts, practicing kinesthetic perception etc.
When I took my kids out of public school, one of the reasons was to get out of a system that required me to make my kids go to bed early (fight) and awaken too early in the morning to be drssed, fed and taken to the school on time (fight).
I even sat in "tardy" court with about 25 other parents who had trouble getting their kids to school on time. We had it explained that as parents it was our responsibility to get them to school on time and continuuing to ignore this directive would be Contributing to the Delinquincy of a Minor with a 500 dollar fine.
Every afternoon, the kids were cranky from their day (fight).
I got tire of all the fighting compounded with the lack of academically challenging work for my kids and sheer stupidity of the system.
My kids found their perfect schedule was to go to bed at 2-4 am and awaken around noon.
What have we done by forcing children to adhere to the workday schedule of 8-5 Monday through Friday? How much more relaxed and smarter would they be if they were allowed to go to school later in the day?
Parents would still snatch them out of their cozy beds with a "Get up and Go!" because they would have to be shuffled off to daycare.
Unless they figured out that they didn't have to have a schedule like that either. I have never had a job where I had to awaken with an alarm clock.
I have always held that the alarm clock is an evil thing. It snaps you out of a sleep and perchance a dream. It makes it so people cannot remember their dreams. I have always thought it was important to be able to awaken slowly and remember dreams. When I can't remember a dream it makes me a bit cranky and resentful of whatever robbed me of that experience.
This thing about juggling is fabulous. When I run my own school, you can bet we will be juggling!
I even sat in "tardy" court with about 25 other parents who had trouble getting their kids to school on time. We had it explained that as parents it was our responsibility to get them to school on time and continuuing to ignore this directive would be Contributing to the Delinquincy of a Minor with a 500 dollar fine.
Every afternoon, the kids were cranky from their day (fight).
I got tire of all the fighting compounded with the lack of academically challenging work for my kids and sheer stupidity of the system.
My kids found their perfect schedule was to go to bed at 2-4 am and awaken around noon.
What have we done by forcing children to adhere to the workday schedule of 8-5 Monday through Friday? How much more relaxed and smarter would they be if they were allowed to go to school later in the day?
Parents would still snatch them out of their cozy beds with a "Get up and Go!" because they would have to be shuffled off to daycare.
Unless they figured out that they didn't have to have a schedule like that either. I have never had a job where I had to awaken with an alarm clock.
I have always held that the alarm clock is an evil thing. It snaps you out of a sleep and perchance a dream. It makes it so people cannot remember their dreams. I have always thought it was important to be able to awaken slowly and remember dreams. When I can't remember a dream it makes me a bit cranky and resentful of whatever robbed me of that experience.
This thing about juggling is fabulous. When I run my own school, you can bet we will be juggling!
El Greco said:
This is a very interesting thing. I was caught up in new age delusions for a time and traced thought origins. I discovered that random thoughts are not so random. For instance, my brain will flip through files matching things and come up with tunes that are relevant. I can't think of an illustrative anecdote for that one at the moment.
It's not just sleep that you brain continues to work on problems or seek solutions. One of my practices in creative project development is to go ahead and think far into the future of the project and imagine things that can be done months from now after basic work is done.
This bothered the last editor I worked with because she constantly said that I needed to focus on the task at hand and we would think about that sort of stuff later. I found that a brainstorm about such future things was a productive thing to do. By visualizing such long term goals, I set my brain to work on them in the background while I worked on the more timely aspects of the project. When time passed and the project progressed to said future, my brain had already done a tremendous amount of thinking about it.
I am also good at working on projects in my sleep. These are work dreams and are not always as restful as simple movie dream nights. I awaken after a night of designing a website and only have to reproduce what I already designed in my sleep.
I did so much research into lucid dreaming states and playing in those realms that I may have seriously messed up my sleep patterns. The basis for my chronic condition (fibromyalgia) to flare up is lack of deep sleep. If I don't reach stage 4 sleep, I am in pain the next day. If I continually miss stage 4 for several days, my condition really gets out of hand.
I heard on the news today that the schools in the city will be standardizing their opening times (I guess before it kind of varied), and one of the changes will be that Jr high will start later than the elementaries will, to 'accomodate the needs of students'. I'm assuming that this is in response to all the studies regarding the waking/sleeping time of teenagers vs. adults in an industrialized society.
If the funding was available, I would have schools operate on a morning and an afternoon schedule, so if ou were a morning person, you could go to the morning session, and vice versa. DeVry does this for their students.
If the funding was available, I would have schools operate on a morning and an afternoon schedule, so if ou were a morning person, you could go to the morning session, and vice versa. DeVry does this for their students.