Why Tweens should be able to choose their bed time.

Why Tweens should be able to choose their bed time.

 *Tween- age 10-12

 Did you know that tweens need more sleep than both adults and children? This is why lots of parents control their tweenagers (age 10-12) sleeping times But the truth is, most tweenagers would enjoy choosing their own bedtime and it is true that they should be able to. Tweenagers should be able to choose their bedtime because it would offer them flexibility and teach life responsibility as well as extra opportunities. By the time kids have reached 10-12 years, parents should be allowing some freedom and a sense of maturity and giving up the sleeping structure is a perfect way to encourage this.


 Responsibility is important for tweens and this is a valuable way to teach it. If you were irresponsible and you stayed up too late for something unnecessary then you would have to face the consequences of being unbearably tired the next day. For instance, if you had to go to school earlier the next morning for something, then you would know that you couldn't stay up too late. Therefore you would have to be responsible about what time you chose to go to sleep. Choosing your bedtime each night would also offer flexibility because if you had a homework assignment that was due the next day but you were too tired to think then you could go to bed earlier and then wake up earlier to finish the homework.

 The ability to choose your bedtime would also allow valuable opportunities that you could plan out. It is recommended that 10-12 year olds get approximately nine hours sleep. So if you usually woke up each morning at seven to get ready for school, But your parents never let you watch a programme on TV from 8:30pm-9:30pm the night before because they never thought that you would get enough sleep. If you were allowed to choose what time you went to bed then you could be sure that if you were asleep by 10:00pm you could wake up at seven, having slept for nine hours.


 Research has shown that if Tweens go to sleep too early at night then they can’t help waking up far too early in the morning (2am-4am). Only you can tell when you are truly tired so this once again proves that a structured bedtime doesn't usually fit with your natural sleeping patterns. When you reach about 10-11 years old you go through a sleeping shift that will last until you are about 16. This means that your body clock will move forward one or two hours, making you sleepier 1-2 hours later. This may sound fine because you’d still get enough sleep by sleeping 1-2 hours later in the morning, right? Wrong. Early school starts ensure that you don’t have time to sleep in then next morning causing you to become sleep deprived. This leads to your brain malfunctioning and your school grades going down, it can also lead to Depression later in life. Being able to choose your bedtime would put a stop to this because you would know when you had to go to sleep and when you had to make up sleep to stop losing the sleep that allows you get on with your daily life.


In conclusion, tweens should be allowed to choose their bedtime each night because of the responsibility and privileges that it would provide. Because only you know your sleeping patterns, it makes sense that you should be the one who decides when you go to sleep. As tweens need more sleep than any age group, they should be able to make sure that they get it. Parents should stand back because making their tween go to sleep too early causes them to wake in the middle of the night, shortening their sleeping time. So let your tween take charge of their sleeping times, because it will enhance their energy in their daily lives.

Country life is better than City life.

Intro

“The incidence of schizophrenia is almost doubled for individuals born and brought up in cities.” These values are a cause for concern. It is crucial you keep stress levels down so it doesn't triple in the next year.  Stress can be lurking by your side in the city but in the country stress is non existent. The agitation of living in a cramped city lifestyle when the country has limited population and broad spaces. Why don’t more people live in the country?

How peaceful do you think the city actually is? Well if you live in the country it’s peaceful environment non stress lifestyle makes you see it’s greenness other than stress lurking by your side in the city. You would think country life is cows mooing and early mornings but that’s rural life in remote places but country life isn't necessarily that country life is big spaces, small towns with under 10,000 people and quiet spaces with no busy roads and underpopulated spaces.

How safe are you?

Living in the country doesn't only decrease stress levels it also allows you to have a lower risk of catching a disease that could spread in days through a populated city. For example Ebola has spread in weeks through parts of Africa and the remote places haven’t been effected so living in the country comes in use when avoiding diseases.

How cheap would you like your house?

When you're in the city the house affordability doesn't make your stress levels any lower with an average house costing one million dollars. But for that price in the country it 25% more affordable. In the country there is not only nice views and affordable housing you can also enjoy the greenness of the country.

How to get a job?

In the city the main cause that people move there is because it has better opportunities for a job and you can earn more money but when you're affording things it makes you lose more money. And the country offers job to help run the community and it offers the same jobs except less of them but because there are less people living in the country.

Stress isn't good.

Scientists have found that the country decreases stress levels and that parts of the brain that deal with emotion and stress don’t handle the big crowds of everyday life in the city. The country is found. Stress can lead to lots of mental problems that you can avoid when living in the country.

Conclusion

If you have lived in the country you would think living in the country is the best but if you lived in the city you would think the city is the best but what if you have lived in the city and the country which would be better. But what really is better is where you feel at home.

Why we should give MORE money to the poor. Persuasive Piece by Matthew

22,000 children die each day from poverty according to UNICEF, that means 916 per hour and 15 per minute, 30 parents losing children per minute! Thats 62 TIMES the population of Stonefields School! Moe than 3 BILLION people live on less than $2.50 a day, but most of the people at our school live on at least $14.50 a day.

It has to be a law to give money to Charity for 3rd world countries.

3rd world countries at this current time are suffering from many deadly diseases such as Ebola, which is nothing to laugh about;  They have hardly any food or water to nourish them and also some of them are in horrible temperatures. Lots of people in poverty just live in little shelters made of blankets and sticks living next to poisonous snakes and and rats, they are living in no civilised ways. They can hardly find just a little nourishment to last them the whole day, but we live on probably more than 3 meals a day. We are very lucky that we don’t have any contagious diseases or pollution around us. The only major pollution we have in New Zealand is light pollution from all of the lights we have in the main cities! We are no-where near the top 20 polluted countries, we’re a 1st world country. Children in poverty die in some of the poorest villages on earth according to UNICEF.

Some of the big continents with poverty are Africa and South America which are major 3rd world countries, They have hardly any money; so they have to work for their food; hunt animals themselves and grow plants and they need to learn when their vegetables are ready for harvesting but they don't have any education to do so. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. 80% of the world lives on less than $10 dollars a day. There are some very rich people in these places, that are probably richer than you; but are not giving any money or food to charity to people that are actually suffering from these awful things, and keeping all the money to themselves and having more than 3 good meals a day. If you think they are greedy what about you, if everyone gives just a little money it will make a big difference.

Imagine how this will change the world if we all contributed some money for charity we could provide better and warmers shelters with 4 walls around everyone one in the world. They could have 3 good quality meals a day, because at the moment 780 million suffer from chronic hunger, which means that their daily intake of calories is insufficient for them to live active and healthy lives.

They may still not be as lucky as us but they will have a much better lifestyle is we help them, and have some education so they can learn how to get work somewhere and earn money. This will make them feel appreciated. The world would be more equal if we helped these poor countries.

If we all work together we will have an even amount of money and life would be more fair. We need this law planted into the New Zealand Tax… This could change much of the world for a long time and the reason they’re suffering for these diseases is because they dont have good medical facilities and they cant pay for cures.

Children Should Not Have To Wear School Uniform

You wake up, mind fuzzy. You scramble out of bed, almost falling over as you do so. You hobble to your drawer, slowly opening it. Your heartbeat quickens and you start to panic, your uniform is nowhere to be seen. You stressfully search your room, looking under the bed and behind your door but still no uniform. You ask your mum if she knows where it lies, but she does not know either. You sit down on your bed and think to yourself, if you didn't have to have wear uniform all of this stress would have been avoided, you could have just grabbed a random pair of clothes and been ready to go off to school but no, yet again the hassle of school uniform has made you stressed and on-edge on what started off on a decent note. This is what many children go through when they go to get ready for school, it is a major hassle and does not make us in the mood to do any learning at school. I believe that if children got to wear whatever they felt comfortable in (so long as it wasn't too OTT) it would make things a lot easier and make us more comfortable so we can learn better. So, I believe that children should be able to wear normal clothes instead of school uniform because of the following reasons:

Costs

Parents spend lots of money each year on school uniform for their kids that they could spend on something else like food or water instead of on school uniform that the child will just grow out of pretty quick. Most full sets of school uniform cost around $150 including hat and jumper. That’s a lot of money that could be spent on other things that are more important.

Comfort

When you are comfortable you tend to be more calm about things, so if you were wearing something that you were really comfortable in during school then your mind would be clear and you would be able to work a lot better. So wearing something comfortable would actually increase your learning capacity because you would have a clearer mind to learn.

Accessibility

In the morning when you wake up and go to get changed it is a lot easier to just grab any pair of clothes to wear than spend ages looking for a wearable school uniform. Sometimes you can’t even find a wearable school uniform because the only ones you have are either in the wash or lost, and it makes some people really agitated. Being able to just put on any clothes let’s you get to school faster with hardly any effort.

Conclusion

Basically, children should not have to wear school uniform because it is:

Cheaper for the parents

Better for learning because of comfort

And easier to access making it faster to get to school

So based on these reasons I conclude that children should not have to wear school uniform.

The voting age should be lowered to 13

Voting is a no-brainer; either you like a party or you don't. Thirteen year olds can easily pick up on where views on an issue differ and decide on who they like better.  Children and young people under the age of 18 cannot vote. Yet they constitute one of the largest single blocks of citizens — more than twice the number of citizens of 65 years or older. Therefore why aren't we using all these votes.

Talking to your thirteen year olds  about elections and viewpoints across the board then giving the child his/her choice-vote can be a very nice family activity, can be educational and should instill into a Thirteen year olds the idea that s/he is important enough to make decisions on who and what should rule his/her country.

Thirteen year olds like to know they are important and have a say in this world, because at our age it is not likely that people listen to our views because what can we do about it. There has been many examples of children setting up agencies, websites even radio stations. Jonathan Krohn is a fourteen year old boy from america, and he gives advice to conservatives for future; and he does this on the news right over america. So this is just one example of the maturity of young teens these days.

In our multimedia-based society thirteen year olds are exposed to more information than ever. Television, Internet, and satellite news are available 24/7. Polar ice caps are melting, our troops are dying, and people are starving as we watch live. My generation is more aware of what is going on in the world than previous ones. My generation is more likely to be offspring of single-parent families, multi-racial families, and openly gay parents. The world has changed, society is different from when our parents grew up.

Many may say that thirteen year olds are not mature enough, to young and easily bribed, most thirteen year olds are mature and have an opinion, yes they can be bribed but most teenagers are stubborn and want to keep to their own mind.

Perhaps only the politically aware should vote, whether they're 13 or 103, if you don’t know how your vote will affect everyone, or how a candidate will govern, then maybe you shouldn't cast your vote. So if the age of voting is lowered to thirteen it wouldn't hurt anyone would it.

Why downloading MP3 music for free should have stricter punishments

Why downloading MP3 music for free should have stricter punishments.

Katy Perry's album, Teenage Dream, took 4 million dollars to make. Sums like 100,000 were being passed over tables. The producers spent 250,000 on getting just the first single on to Top 40 radio. Did you know that there are sites out there, like the infamous LimeWire, to exploit this by allowing people to download it for free? LimeWire boasted while it could 11,000 songs infringing copyright laws. That is taking away all the money that goes to the producers, writers, and singer/s that work for sometimes months to produce music that might not even make back their investment. Their pay check gurgles down the drain as people exploit this loophole in the law... I call for harsher crackdown on these sites.

I know of people who have stumbled on one of these sites, not knowing what they are doing is wrong, and taken music. A famous saying is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If people knew to step away from these sites, there would be no point in making such websites and then the whole illegal music business would collapse. Then, no interference would be needed from police to remove the content anyway!

Whole websites exist to illegally offer this content. A prime example is the website and organisation named The Pirate Bay. They were founded in Sweden in 2003. The Pirate Bay exists to share torrent files and magnet links that allow the downloader to use and share copyrighted material for free. Not only do they offer music, but tv shows, movies and podcasts are also available. They have avoided being shut down by constantly switching servers and encouraging users to use the ‘PirateBrowser’ that is downloadable on their site able to bypass internet censorship. Thousands of people use this website, most not knowing that what they are doing is wrong.

Did you know only one person ever in New Zealand has been prosecuted for pirating music? He attempted to illegally download a Rihanna album, incurring a few months in jail and a several thousand dollar fine. Many people who may have downloaded this same album have gone unchecked. The situation has gotten ridiculous.

If this illegal downloading business continues without penalty, then the billions of dollars being pumped into the economy because of lawful purchases of music will cease to exist. Even though it is not a primary source of income for a successful artist, it is their rightful money. It is the same as stealing a taco vendor’s tacos for yourself, meaning that the taco vendor will not make his money to feed himself that night.

So what could we do to stop this? First off, awareness, awareness, awareness. If people knew what to do in these situations, a huge amount of downloads would never happen. Then, an organisation perhaps could work on tackling these websites and repeat offenders. Fines would be the best thing to issue here, as then the artist and those who get paid every time people buy songs could get their rightful slice of the profit.

So, in conclusion, downloading music is wrong and should have harsher penalties. If everybody took this issue seriously, the music industry and pretty much every other entertainment department would be a much happier place. If you could take just one thing away from this speech, can it please be: You wouldn’t steal a handbag, you wouldn’t steal a car; PIRACY IS STEALING!

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