If you aren’t doing so well in school or your sport, maybe it’s because you aren’t getting enough sleep, according to a Straits Times story (Monday, January 5, 2009).
Apparently four out of five teenagers in Singapore aren’t sleeping enough.
Dr Lim Li Ling, director of the Sleep Disorder Unit – one assumes everyone sleeps quite well there – at the Singapore General Hospital, told the Straits Times: “When children don’t get enough sleep, the consequences are significant. It affects their learning and growth.”
According to Dr Lim, a lack of sleep stunts your height and can also cause emotional problems (which may explain your ’emo’ friend).
For those who are student athletes, the need for sleep is even more important to recharge after intense training sessions.
How much sleep is needed (by age):
7 years old – 10.5 hours
8 – 10.25
9 – 10
10 – 9.75
11 – 9.5
12 – 9.25
13 – 9.25
14 – 9
15 – 8.75
16 – 8.5
15 – 8.75
16 – 8.5
17 – 8.25
18 – 8.25
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a-Fa and girl, reading your comments makes me grateful that I went to school many years ago! Somehow I don’t remember having that much schoolwork…. And I guess we had neither cable TV nor the Internet to distract us too 🙂
Hi a-Fa and girl,
That’s some schedule you got there. Just reading it makes me tired.
yeah my schedule’s really pack too 🙁
typical weekday:
1. wake up at 5.30am, wash up and stuffs till 6.30am. travel, reach school at about 7.30am.
2. 8am – 3.45pm lessons
3. 3.30 – 6pm training (lessons clash with trainings hahaha)
4. go home, reach at about 7.30pm
5. do homework till 12am
6. pack bag and stuffs – 12.30am
🙁
Nice article to remind all of us, especially athletes.
but to any educators that are reading this, please take note:
A lot of students are losing sleep might be because of you, although you are not to be blamed completely. But here’s how it goes:
1) Students have like 7 or 8 subjects.
2) Each teacher gives 1 to 3 homework per day and says their’s is the most important and the other subjects are not. Expect it to be completed the next day. (min. = 7 subjects x 1 homework = 7 homework; 7 hmwk x 30mins (minimum) = 3.5hrs)
Students time spent per day(approximate):
1) Waking up, travelling to school = 5/6am till 7am (some even have to wake up earlier to go for any morning CCA training)
2) Schooling hours = 7am till 2pm
3) CCA hours = 2pm till 6pm
4) Travelling home, rest, dinner = 6pm – 8pm
5) Homework, revision, tuition, projects, catching up on anything online, games, tv, etc = 8pm + 3.5hrs + ___hrs = 11.30pm + ___ = usually until 1 or 2 am
6) Sleep = 1/2 am to 5/6am = 4hrs (to get at least 8hrs of sleep, they need to hit the bed at around 9-10pm. which is absolutely impossible.)
7) Weekends – Still got to attend CCA’s, tuitions, enrichment, etc. Where got time to sleep.
8) School Holidays – Should be call Cram School instead. Nearly everyday go down for lessons and cca’s.
Get it educators and MOE? =) You can’t blame it if you find any of them sleeping in class. Maybe a power nap session could be introduced in between lessons.