A few days ago I heard about another study done with young children and teens that showed that children who have a regular bedtime (the same time every day) do better in school. While I have no doubt that that is true, I would like to see what the other variables were. I suspect that the better performance is school is at least in part due to the fact that the children with the regular bedtimes have parents who are involved enough and care enough to make sure they go to bed on time, which says to me that the parents/caregivers also care enough and are involved enough to help with homework and feed their children nutritious food and generally engage in good parenting. Let's hear it for good parenting!
I also suspect that most adults would do better with regular (earlier) bedtimes. I try, really I do, and I'm usually in bed by 11:00pm. My problem is reading in bed. I like to read before I fall asleep but if I get involved with a really good book, sleep time tends to get later and later. Maybe I need to practice parenting myself. I think they call that self-discipline.
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