{"id":1177,"date":"2008-01-15T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2008-01-15T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T15:47:27","slug":"the-body-or-the-culture-on-teenagers-internal-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"The body or the culture on teenagers’ internal clocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbara from Las Cruces (NM) has the right question<\/a> to ask in response to Nancy Kalish’s wailing about the late clocks of teenagers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I have contended for years with the inability of both of my sons to wake up any earlier than 7:30. However, it is not just the body’s inner clock that contributes to the issue. Heavy homework commitments and late-night sessions at the kitchen table and computer are another factor in going to bed after 11 p.m. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

… not to mention after-school activities, socializing, work, and so on. Maybe it’s because I’m neither a physician nor a psychologist, but “it’s the hormones” is not a very persuasive argument until someone does some solid experimental research (uh, yeah, who’s going to participate in a RCT on this?) or otherwise filters out the effects of modern life. <\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that bell schedules can’t move. Maybe we should accommodate late-night schedules for teens by moving the start of school back. But let’s acknowledge that part of this is to accommodate adult<\/em> perceptions of priorities rather than some inherent biological clock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barbara from Las Cruces (NM) has the right question to ask in response to Nancy Kalish’s wailing about the late clocks of teenagers: I have contended for years with the inability of both of my sons to wake up any earlier than 7:30. However, it is not just the body’s inner clock that contributes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-iZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}