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Monday, February 12, 2018

10 Tips to Help Your Teen Maintain Healthy Sleep Patterns

Only 15% of teens are getting enough sleep. Keep your teen healthy . . .

Make sleep a priority
Remember you are the parent
Body clock, same daily sleep and wake times— weekends too
Set a 9-10 hour sleep goal
Just say no to sugar and caffeine
Screen time, power down at sundown – 2 hours prior to bedtime
Bedroom, quiet and dark like a cave
Temperature, find the comfort zone
Meals, avoid heavy foods late in the day
Liquids, stop sips two hours before bed

Sleep researchers have discovered that the adolescent body clock is delayed, releasing melatonin about 90 minutes later at the onset of puberty. Teens don’t get sleepy as early as the rest of us. They get over stimulated by the sugar and caffeine laden energy drinks they chug to make it through the day. They are also more reactive to nighttime light.

To compound this problem they are reducing their melatonin levels by up to 22% if clutching their glowing smart phones and tablets into the late night hours.

A good reference:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/from/sleep.html

And just for fun!

Saturday, July 12, 2014

I Love You - in German

Ich liebe dich

Let's break it down:

"ich"
It sounds something like the /j/ sound in Spanish, kind of like a snake hissing.
Most English-speakers get away with saying "ish," as in "finish" or "fish."

"liebe"
Say this slowly "lee-buh."

"dich"
The "ich" in "Dich" is pronounced the same as "ich" in the first word.
"Dich" sounds similar to the English word "dish," except the /ch/ sound is produced in the middle of the mouth instead of the front.

If you want to get technical, that difficult /ch/ in German is a voiceless palatal fricative.
But it isn't pronounced the same way you would pronounce the /ch/ voiceless palatal fricative in English.

Yes, you can take the girl out of the linguistics and speech pathology career . . . . but you can't take the "annoying need to discuss these things" out of the girl!