বৃহস্পতিবার, ১১ আগস্ট, ২০১৬
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বুধবার, ১০ আগস্ট, ২০১৬
Here's What's Keeping College Students From Getting The Sleep They Need
Late last month, I visited the California offices of Chegg, a higher education company that specializes in helping college students with everything from affordable textbook rentals to online tutoring. Lately, Chegg has committed to gaining a deeper understanding of another subject central to college students' lives: sleep. And as Chegg's CEO Dan Rosensweig and I began a conversation with an audience of Chegg employees, Dan shared the results of a new Chegg survey on the sleep habits of college students.
The survey's findings bring valuable data to a familiar problem: for an alarming number of students, college has been turned into one long training ground for burnout. The motto "sleep, grades, social life: pick two," or some version of this, can be heard on campuses across the country. The combination of academic pressures, social opportunities -- and for many, newfound freedoms and the resulting challenge of time management -- creates an environment where sleep doesn't get the respect it deserves.
So as thousands of young people across the country prepare to head off to college, here are a few findings from the Chegg study -- which surveyed 473 students from a mix of public and private colleges -- that I found most illuminating.
Most students know there is a link between sleeping and academic performance.
Over half of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that students who do better in school probably get more sleep. (They're right, of course. A 2014 study by the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota showed that the effect of sleep deprivation on grades is roughly equivalent to binge drinking and drug use.)
And the vast majority of students want to get the sleep they need.
Fully 84 percent said 8 or more hours would be "ideal" on a school night.
But very few are meeting that goal.
Only 16 percent usually get 8 or more hours on a school night, with far more (79 percent) sleeping 5 to 7 hours a night.
Today's college students are constantly connected.
Students overwhelmingly cited time spent online and with electronic devices as significant obstacles to sleep. Asked to name the reasons that keep them from sleeping, 51 percent cited too much time online doing non-school related activities -- second only to having too much homework.
Even in bed.
A whopping 86 percent said they take their devices to bed with them -- for email, texting and other non-school activities. And 90 percent leave their phones on when they go to sleep.
The good news?
Chegg's survey found that most college students have plenty of free time each day (much of it, for better or worse, is spent online). So there's an opportunity for students to set aside some of that time for sleep, whether that means going to bed 30 minutes earlier or finding time during the day for a nap.
And the fact that so many students know how much sleep they should be getting, and are aware of how tethered they are to their devices, is at least a first step in changing habits. As more studies like this emerge -- and as I was researching The Sleep Revolution, I was struck by the sheer number of new studies adding to our understanding of sleep's vital role in every aspect of our lives -- people will be more equipped to make changes, even small ones, to help them get the sleep they need.
That's why HuffPost launched the Sleep Revolution College Tour, and why we continue to tell stories around sleep's impact on our lives -- everything from the military's rediscovery of sleep as an essential tool of judgment to the ways athletes increasingly view it as the ultimate performance enhancer. As we approach the start of another academic year, with all its possibilities, there's no better time than now to renew our relationship with sleep and savor all the benefits it brings.
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Zac Hanson's wife is a MMMMom again... to baby No. 4
Who doesn't remember Hanson, the mop-haired boys from Tulsa who rocked the world with "MMMBop" back in the day? Well, get ready for your blast from the past. "Little" Zac Hanson, the younger brother of Isaac and Taylor is a dad again.
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Wait, again? If you didn't already know it, the not-so-little-anymore Zac is now 30, married to wife Kate and actually has four - count 'em, four - kids. In fact, Kate gave birth to the couple's fourth child on Saturday, Aug. 6.
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Little Mary Lucille Diana Hanson joins big brothers John, 8, and George, 2-1/2, plus big sister Junia, 5. And if you're thinking that's a big name for a little baby, her parents are way ahead of you. She'll apparently go by just Lucille.
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Although some parents opt for hiding less popular names in the middle so their kids don't have to use them in public, going by your middle name is something of a trend for the Hanson clan - Isaac's real first name is Clarke, while Taylor is actually Jordan Taylor - and in Hollywood overall. Everyone from (Christopher) Ashton Kutcher to (William) Bradley Pitt have dropped the first name in favor of the second, at least where the public is concerned.
And while the religious Hanson family is not Catholic, using Mary as a first name but calling your daughter by their middle name was once extremely common in the Catholic faith where many girls were named for the Virgin Mary (and boys were named for Joseph).
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Whether this little girl opts to stick with her middle name or not, she's got three great names to choose from!
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Michelle Obama just played the mom card at the DNC and she nailed it
For eight years, Michelle Obama has been the First Lady of America. But she's also been America's mom, the woman out there telling our kids to eat their vegetables, to get outside and play. Is it any wonder America's mom just turned the entire election into a commentary on how you raise your kids? Is there any other way to look at the First Lady's Democratic National Convention speech?
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Coming on the heels of an impassioned New Jersey Senator Cory Booker calling for "a country that doesn't degrade or demean other folks, but elevates our nation and pulls us together," Michelle Obama stepped in to remind us that little pitchers have very big ears ... and they're listening to all the infighting, back-biting and Donald Trump's schoolyard bullying.
Using her own girls as stand ins for every American child, Michelle Obama reminded us that she tells her girls, "When someone is cruel or acts like a bully you don't stoop to their level."
She told us what kind of president she wants for her girls, a president who knows that the issues of a presidency aren't black and white and cannot be "boiled down to 140 characters."
She wants "a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame & fortune for ourselves."
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She wants all us American parents to sit down and have a good long think about who it is we want our kids to see on the TV screen while they're eating their Cheerios before school, because that's the person they're going to be looking up to for at least the next four years. Do we want the woman who will let little girls and little boys both know that gender is not a barrier to anything, not even the presidency? Or do we want the guy who mocks people with disabilities on camera and calls women fat pigs?
And after you've got the whole "I pick good role models for my kids" issue sorted, next comes the "I plan for my kids' futures" issue, courtesy of Mrs. Obama, because squirreling a little mad money away for the day they go to college isn't going to be a help for them if the country they call home is a hot mess.
As the First Lady pointed out, "Being president is about one thing and one thing only. It's about leaving something better for our kids."
One president gets four years to change a nation for the better or the worse, and if they take America down the wrong path, getting back to the beginning is no easy course correction (see also President Barack Obama's uphill battle to fix an economic disaster he inherited).
"We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical," Obama said. "Between now and November we need to do what did eight years ago and four years ago. we need to knock on every door. We need to get out every vote."
Put more directly, America's mom just told us all to stop being so G.D. self-centered and start thinking about what the hell is going to happen after our Facebook memes and Twitter hashtags have been lost in the ether and a whole other generation has to deal with the consequences of what we do ... or don't do ... come November. Because choosing a president isn't about who has the cleverest quips or the coolest swag, who's got the best Instagram photos or who can convince Chachi to break every '70s kid's ever loving heart. And lest you think she's preaching to the wrong choir, let's not forget that this speech came just about an hour after Sarah Silverman had to hush a crowd full of angry Bernie or Bust protesters booing her for crossing the aisle to support Hillary Clinton.
There are a lot of angry Americans who aren't exactly sitting down with clear heads to think through what it will actually take to get a candidate elected this fall ... or what will happen if they can't come together for one.
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If you can't do it for yourself, take the First Lady's advice ... do it for your kids.
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