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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising junior aims to be in bed by 9 and asleep 9:30. Good sleep habits have served her very well so far. [/quote]

High school sports practices and orchestra / theater rehearsals end at 9pm. Sports practices are usually 3 hours (including warm ups). Game days they have team dinner immediately after school then for away games they get back aftwr 9pm. Then there is homework and volunteering.

Lucky if they are in bed by 10pm. [/quote]

That's worse that a life of a single adult working FT job  :shock:  When do these kids have any free time at all if their doing stuff from 6am to 10pm?

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Why do they need free time? They spend their time doing what they need and want to do (school, sports, hobbies, work part time). All of those are done around peers. Really not sure what a 15 year old would do with free time that is productive.[/quote]

Downtime and being bored are shown to have academic benefits. It is said that so many kids do not know how to operate outside of structure. A few years ago — maybe 10-15 — classes started forming to teach kids how to play (another necessary step in human development). [/quote]

Very true.[/quote]

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