Joseph Fuerst

I read in yesterday's paper (? I think) and article about the fact that
teens need a LOT of sleep due to brain changes. I imagine struggling with
depression and meds forthat may complicate the matter. Oh yeah.....it was a
description of a PBS show about the teenage brain. I missed the first part,
but part 2 is on tonight.
The article attracted my attention in part because the show will feature
a local cartoonist....Jim Borgman.....I adore his work! He draws for the
comic strip Zits.... the only comic my dh will read!
Susan
> I'll give you an example from home. Rachel has depression problems
> and is on Prozac. She knows she feels better when her sleep schedule
> is patterned so that she is up during the day. She also knows that
> if she hangs out on the computer at night starts watching tv at
> night, she will be up all night. It's a pattern, she knows it, I
> know it, we all know it. The last time she got into a bad pattern,
> she wuld get royally mad if we left the house without her. We had
> numerous discussions about the fact that it is like waking the dead
> to get her up and we would give her one wake-up call and then be on
> our way from then on. She now understands it is her decision to get
> out of or stay in bed and has stopped going off on us if we leave
> without her.
> In other words, it's her choice. It does not matter if I want her up
> in the morning or not. But she had to learn to live peacefully with
> the consequences too. When she was going off on us for leaving her
> at home, I started making her get up when we went out. When she
> decided to stop getting mad at us, I started leaving her alone.
>
> Bridget
>

joanna514

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Joseph Fuerst" <fuerst@f...> wrote:
> I read in yesterday's paper (? I think) and article about the fact
that
> teens need a LOT of sleep due to brain changes. I imagine
struggling with
> depression and meds forthat may complicate the matter. Oh
yeah.....it was a
> description of a PBS show about the teenage brain. I missed the
first part,
> but part 2 is on tonight.

I saw part of that last night. Very interesting stuff.
Joanna