Daily Update for Wed., Feb. 22nd

Here's this morning's challenge question: According to research out of Brigham Young University, the more of this your student gets, the more likely his or her grades are to suffer. More of what?

This flies in the face of everything I've ever been led to believe - but it's SLEEP!

Seems that the optimal amount of sleep is actually shorter as the teens get older - while 10-year olds should be getting at least 9 hours a night, older teens seem to thrive best on 6-7 hours.  Good news in our house, where the texting goes on way past the point I'm in bed...

Doesn't explain, though, the whole sleeping-till-one-in-the-afternoon-unless-I-absolutely-have-to-be-somewhere phenomenon, though!

Karen got it right this morning - now she'll enjoy dinner or lunch at Alberto's on us.