Sleeping

I work full time overnight at BJ's in Manahawkin. Working overnights means that I rarely sleep at a regular time, two nights a week I sleep regularly, 3 days a week i sleep between 8 am and 2pm, and 2 days a week I sleep from 5-10pm. So when I saw the title of this article "Distractions may shift, but sleep need don't" I thought I would check it out to see what I am doing to my body. 

It turns out that the article didn't answer this question for me directly, but I did find it interesting. This article, unlike any article I have read thus far, was geared less towards the medical information and more to the life of the author. She included a poem, quotes from peter pan, and her personal experience with putting her children to sleep. It turns out the average person, from adolescence through teenage years, requires about 9 hours of sleep per night. But as you get older it becomes more and more difficult to get to sleep at early hours. This is due to your bodies seratonin levels, which turn on later after puberty, meaning you don't get tired until later. I can only imagine how screwed up my circadian rhythm is  because I have no rhythm to my sleep patterns. I have always been a big fan of sleep to, I was never one for falling asleep in the middle of the night, I liked going to sleep relatively early. With the distractions of computer and televisions in kids rooms these days though, I am sure it is increasingly more difficult for children to sleep. When I become a parent my kids definitely won't have a TV in the room.