If one parent is working and the other is staying home with the baby, you may choose to arrange things so the working parent gets more
sleep on weeknights but picks up the slack on weekends, when the stay - at - home parent can sleep later, sleep longer stretches, or take naps.
Sleeping in on the weekends is a sign that a teen is not getting enough
sleep on weeknights.
Only six percent reported getting eight hours of
sleep on weeknights and only 22 percent reported getting at least seven hours.
Studies show that the average American gets around 6.5 hours
sleep on a weeknight.
Not exact matches
This analysis suggested that more irregular
sleep timing across
weeknights and weekends (very little
sleep during the week and «catching up»
on sleep during the weekend), and a preference for scheduling work and social time later in the evening hours can both contribute to differences in illness outcomes, conclusions that are also supported in the broader adolescent
sleep literature.
• Try to keep the same
sleep schedule
on weeknights and weekends.
The researchers asked participants how much
sleep they thought they needed at night and how much
sleep they managed to get
on weeknights and weekends.
Sleeping in
on the weekends (a common practice) is one way that you might try to combat a shortage of
weeknight sleep, but it's usually not the best strategy.
One variation of this narrative heard recently at Galldin Robertson is of a woman who stayed at her office to toil away at files until she dropped into
sleep on a couch at her office; this
weeknight practice had become routine and was the night that her kids simply just did not see their mother.
As in if you are
sleeping a lot
on weekends then the tracker would suggest you to take some fixed hours of
sleep during
weeknights.