Finally!

I finally found a a good excuse for why I was always in trouble in high school for sleeping in too late. Of course I wouldn't put myself in the category of genius but my little cousin found this very interesting article on the relationship of intelligence and bed time. The psychologist who wrote the article studied the time children went to bed and woke up on both weekdays and weekends then tested their IQ's. Children who fell asleep later and woke up later tended to score higher on their IQ tests than children who were early to bed early to rise. This article captured my attention because ever since I was little as soon as it hit about 10 o'clock at night it was as if I got a second burst of energy. I don't think my mom knew what to do with me because I'd prefer to stay up all night watching classics like I Love Lucy or Mary Tyler Moore and then sleep through the boring Sesame Street or Fraggle Rock.
It was rough growing up with this sleep cycle because once elementary school started I was forced to be up at an earlier time and actually was threatened with detention in 5th grade if I showed up late anymore to school. I'm not saying I'm anywhere close to being a genius or anywhere else in the highly intelligent rank but it does seem interesting that I was the one in my family who always loved to read and study things that grabbed my interests. My dad is the same way but he has to be up early for work every morning so I'm not even sure what his sleep cycle would be like if it weren't for work. My mom on the other hand never had deep interest in reading for leisure (No, I'm not calling her stupid) and she's always the first to fall asleep and usually wakes naturally at an earlier time. I can't really speak for my brother considering I don't think he sleeps at all because he has a busy schedule of staying up all night to play x-box. Anyway, I just think it's interesting that this psychologist had these findings because we always use the phrase the early bird gets the worm which is true but maybe the night owl is the one thats winning out in the end.