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Between the school, duties, the friends, the television. the schedule of the children is often charged. However the domestic habits and especially the school rhythms don't often respect the internal clock of the children. What amenities are necessary to avoid fatigue or lack of attention? Doctissimo sums up the child's biologic rhythms. Exhausting school timetables, quantity of variable sleep. The children are sometimes submitted to rough test. What are the means to respect a few more the child and his needs? A étude1 of the National institute of health and the medical research made the point on the biologic rhythms of our dear blond heads. According to his findings, many amenities would be necessary. The child has an internal clock!All human beings, as the other animals and the plants, possess biologic rhythms. They allow our body to organize itself and to adapt to the events of the day. Controlled by our brain, they result in physiological variations (rate of hormones in blood.) and cognitive (decrease of the attention.). To keep health, it is therefore essential to respect them. As the adult, the child possesses her own biologic rhythms. Thus, the smallest are going to have need of more than sleep, they won't be concentrated the whole time of the same way. This internal clock varies from a child to another. Respect his sleepOne of the essential elements of the child's rhythms is the alternation veille/sommeil. It is primordial to respect the needs of this one on the subject. However this cycle is in constant evolution until adolescence. The catnap is part of the indispensable phases for example for the smallest. His length decreases since the age of nine months and it generally disappears between 3 and 6 years. Nevertheless, it remains essential for the children of 2 to 5 years. Beyond 6 years, the child must benefit from a quantity of sufficient sleep: at least nine at ten o'clock. Besides, the hours to lie down and to raise must not vary. School: of the badly organized days?In France, the yearly volume of past hours on the benches of the school is in the European average. He is fixed at 936 o'clock per year and he is verified by the academic inspection in every establishment. But the days are often too long and organized badly. The Inserm underlines that the activity intellectual of the pupils varies on one day and on one week. Thus, on one day, one notes that the cognitive performances increase since the rising to reach a peak toward 11 hours. Then, they lower until 14 hours to go back up until the end of the afternoon. However the school schedule is not absolutely adapted to this observation. The Inserm recommends to reserve the most favorable hourly gaps (end of morning and middle of afternoon) to new trainings requiring the attention and, on the contrary, to occupy the moments least favorable to maintenance activities of the knowledge or to more playful character." For the teenagers, the Inserm recommends to delay the beginning of the courses the morning. Indeed, these young are often sleepy baffled: to lie down late and to raise also late. He would be therefore preferable that the teenagers don't arrive in class before nine hours. Week of four days: the solution?In France, a quarter of the primary schools is to "the week of the four days." This time won during the year is caught up on vacations: the pupils make their return shortly before the end of the month of August. But this solution causes a lot of polemics. According to several specialists, it would drag a too long cut during the weekend. It would entail difficulties of resumption Monday. But the Inserm underlines that the "classic" week is just as responsible of difficult beginnings. For the meantime, the studies on the weekly rhythms only gave little information. The scientists noted a higher level of vigilance Thursday afternoon at the children of the preparatory course and Friday morning at those of the elementary course. In the waiting of advanced studies on the topic, the Inserm "judges prudent not to generalize the week of 4 days." Under the pressure of the parents whose weekends stretch out since the arrival of the 35 hours, one will know how to respect the rhythm of the children? A business to follow. 2009-06-10
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