Monday morning, November 7th, we all wake up after supposedly getting an extra hour of sleep as we return to standard time. In a good part of the country, there will be a little more daylight at the beginning of the day and darkness will arrive much earlier in the afternoon.
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Parents, how are your kids doing this week with the time change? If you notice that they’re a little more worn out and fussier than usual, it may not be something going on at school or with friends—or then, again it might be, because all that stuff is harder this week, and they can’t figure [...]
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Some call this week at school “March Madness,” with a nod to the endless basketball parade on television this time of year. The analogy does fit if you think about the college kids who are sometimes playing three and four basketball games in as many days, the ones with the greatest stamina often the ones [...]
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So, after a late night out Saturday, October 31st, full of sugar and caffeine, we will dutifully try to get our children to bed Sunday night, November 1, an hour earlier as we return to the morning darkness of Daylight Savings Time and head back to school Monday, November 2. Whoever arranged these dates doesn’t [...]
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Schools are about to reopen after a two-month vacation in most locations, and parents everywhere are thinking about “back to school” shopping for new clothes and school supplies.
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Well, last week, we did it again. Tinkered with time, moved our clocks forward a little earlier and fooled ourselves into thinking we can squeeze just a little more out of life by building in as much daylight as possible.
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For the first time, the new federal energy legislation that mandated daylight savings time into November last fall, is also about to enter our lives and those of our children and students this March 9th.
After a winter of record-breaking snowfall in many parts of the country, and devastating weather in other locations, more light may [...]
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This past weekend we “turned back the clocks” to “standard time.” Right after Halloween the world plunged into winter darkness in the morning and the evening. How does our presumptive tinkering with time impact the lives of the youngest of our species, our children?
We think of humans as having five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste [...]
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