Obese Teens: Misunderstood In Our Society

If we don’t get enough sleep our bodies will be prominent to sickness. Our bodies will be too busy trying to keep us awake to focus on getting better. If some people can’t get to bed until 11 pm and get up at 5 that’s not enough sleep to try to fight sickness. If school starts at 7:45 am then they have to get up earlier than that to get on the bus or drive. Also if you stayed up til 12 am to 2am they’ll be tired in the mornings especially people in extra sports and they can’t miss practice even is a little bug, for some people.

This problem makes sense, but kids also need to have their phones/ electronics in their room because 60% of 16-34 year-olds use their phones as alarms. In addition, kids have some type of light in their room which disrupts meditation. Those things can cause 2 hours of lost sleep. Things that aren't helping the situation that adults and kids do is drink caffeine, and energy drinks. Also, extra sleep on the weekends can cause you to lose sleep on the weekdays.

I am very sarcastic and I joke around. I like making myself and others laugh, just makes me feel better knowing I made someone laugh. You will always see me and those around me laughing. At lunch I sit with my closest friends and there is not a day that we are not laughing so hard we cannot breath. We could be laughing over the most bizarre things that other people may not find funny, but it sure makes us laugh like nobody 's around.

To begin, not all kids have a problem getting up in the morning for school. When kids get up earlier, they learn to be responsible for their actions and learn lessons for life like how to get up in the morning for jobs. According to

Many people are judged because they don’t have the perfect body shape. It seems like society judges you whether you are skinny or fat. Now if you want to be accepted in society, you must have a perfect body appearance. In “Ok So I’m Fat” by Neil Steinberg he states that people say implicit comments when people like him, who don’t have a perfect body shape, are near. Neil Steinberg states that fat people feel put down by the idea that skinny people exist on the same planet that they do.

# The sun shines through his curtains, much to his dismay. He sits up in his bed and sighs. It takes him a moment to open his eyes fully and when he does he sees a small object on his dresser catching the light that slips through his curtains. He walks to the ring and rolls it around his fingers a few times.

School Start Times: Waking Up to the Truth Imagine staying up until the wee hours of the morning to finish the homework that had been accumulated during the day, only to have to get up a few hours later to catch the school bus, knowing that succeeding in class the next day would be short of a miracle. For many students, this scenario is not only feared but a reality they must face. The American Academy of Pediatrics states, “About 90% of high-school-aged adolescents get insufficient sleep on school nights…”(“Early

As much as parents may want their kids to hit the streets earlier to make up for lost sleep in the morning, that’s just not how their bodies are wired. During puberty, teens’ circadian rhythms shift, keeping them alert until 11pm or midnight - later than younger adolescents and adults.” Teens, they tend to not sleep until 11pm, and usually have to wake up at about 6am, giving them only 7 hours of sleep. This can lead to problems, for example bad grades, and how alert they are. Teens can barely keep their own eyes open in the morning, walking around mindlessly.

Should Schools in America Start Later Many kids in America come to school tired and not ready to learn. Being tired can effect your child's grades. Parents might not realize that their child is falling behind because of lack of rest. Teenagers should get up to 9 1/2 hours of sleep yet many kids only get up to 7 hours of sleep.

Sleeping Schools Countless students all over the US struggle to keep their eyes open throughout the day because school classes start too early in the morning. If we were able to give an hour to students in the morning, we would see an increase in their physical mentality, their academic skill level, and an overall happier lifestyle. Many people will argue that starting school too late in the morning will cause after school activities -- such as sports and other clubs -- no time to meet before the night ends. But I must mention that we don’t need to push the start time that much later to see a huge improvement on student’s test scores, overall grades, and a student’s mood. The current school start time is unacceptable when thought about logically, and we must make the changes to have school start at a later time.

Majority of today’s teenagers suffer with the thoughts that they will never be “good enough,” loved, or happy as they are. The positive or negative mental perception that people have of themselves physically is what’s called a ‘body image.’ Although this image may be the total opposite and not reflect on the real appearance, or how others see it, there is no in between of the two body images: positive or healthy body image and negative or poor body image. A healthy body image is considerably attractive and poor body image as unattractive. A negative body image is commonly reported and influenced by the three main aspects: age, gender and society (Davidson and Cataldo, 221-222).

Let The Children Play Tessa Melquist Western Governors University Student ID #671279 Let The Children Play So much of the school day is planned for our youth. Reading, writing, mathematics, art, music and many other curricula are jammed into an approximated seven-hour day.