Nap time
I read a story over the weekend that made me yawn.
Several schools in the metro Atlanta area are doing away with those traditional naps for kindergartners. It seems that nap times are being phased out as educators need more time to focus on meeting the new academic requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
My first thought was: I wouldn’t want to be the teacher in those classrooms where the new policy is Every Pillow Left Behind. I speak from the experience of being married to a woman who has been a kindergarten paraprofessional for the past five years.
Most of those children need that down time. Not to mention the teachers. It's difficult enough to deal with a 5-year-old. Try dealing with a tired 5-year-old.
Just give them a 20-minute power nap. And you don’t even have to call it a nap. Just let them put their heads down on their desks and be quiet and still for a few minutes.
More than half of America needs a nap ever day, but most of us just won’t admit it. Especially after lunch.
The Mexicans had the right idea when they invented the siesta. In New York, there is even a company that, for $14, will rent you a recliner and a quiet space to give you a few winks in the middle of the day.
Before my father retired, he was a doctor. He would work hard all day and sometimes half the night. He would come home every day and my mother would fix him lunch. Then he would tell her to call him in 15 minutes, and he would lie on his back on the bed – perfectly still in his dress shirt and tie. When she would call him, he would jump up, as refreshed and ready as if he had slept through the night.
Gosh, there are days when I wish I could do the same. Just a short snooze would be nice.
Wonder if the Telegraph would let me …
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I read a story over the weekend that made me yawn.
Several schools in the metro Atlanta area are doing away with those traditional naps for kindergartners. It seems that nap times are being phased out as educators need more time to focus on meeting the new academic requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
My first thought was: I wouldn’t want to be the teacher in those classrooms where the new policy is Every Pillow Left Behind. I speak from the experience of being married to a woman who has been a kindergarten paraprofessional for the past five years.
Most of those children need that down time. Not to mention the teachers. It's difficult enough to deal with a 5-year-old. Try dealing with a tired 5-year-old.
Just give them a 20-minute power nap. And you don’t even have to call it a nap. Just let them put their heads down on their desks and be quiet and still for a few minutes.
More than half of America needs a nap ever day, but most of us just won’t admit it. Especially after lunch.
The Mexicans had the right idea when they invented the siesta. In New York, there is even a company that, for $14, will rent you a recliner and a quiet space to give you a few winks in the middle of the day.
Before my father retired, he was a doctor. He would work hard all day and sometimes half the night. He would come home every day and my mother would fix him lunch. Then he would tell her to call him in 15 minutes, and he would lie on his back on the bed – perfectly still in his dress shirt and tie. When she would call him, he would jump up, as refreshed and ready as if he had slept through the night.
Gosh, there are days when I wish I could do the same. Just a short snooze would be nice.
Wonder if the Telegraph would let me …
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
posted by Ed Grisamore at 6:02 AM
2 Comments:
Naps are beneficial in many ways. Destressing makes people healthier and less a liability to the company. With global warming causing our weather temperatures to soar, it only makes sense. I would work an hour later if I could have a 45 minute nap in the hottest part of the day. Their have been studies done and the results were very positive for productivity. No one was falling asleep during boring meetings either. Nah, american companies will never go for it. They can't get out old mindsets.
Apparently Churchill took an afternoon nap, even during WWII.
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