Naptime is an unnecessary event. Naps contribute to lifelong dependence upon long sleep; naps contribute to Severe Boredom Disorder. Naps are humiliating to many children; naps are major reasons many people rebel against parents earlier than teenage years.  

 

Naps contribute to lifelong dependence upon long sleep. In today's modern world, many of us find ourselves navigating the labyrinth of life with excruciatingly few hours of sleep. While it's always great to catch the occasional siesta, naps further your incapability to do things like run machines, go to work, and communicate, by addicting you to sleep and forcing a number of rigid rules concerning sleep, into your life, making it virtually impossible for you to do things that may lead to better status at work and home. I find myself weak and tired, often too weary to write, without a nap. Had I not been hooked early to naps, I would be able to perform duties without drowsiness dragging at my eyelids.  

 

Naps have also been proven to contribute to Severe Boredom Disorder, or SBD*. SBD affects most often five to thirty-five year olds. SBD slows the flow of blood to the brain while one is in napping position. This disorder leads to temporary Attention Deficiency Disorder for periods up to one hour or less.

 

Naps are humiliating to many children who interact with other kids outside of the napping-kids circle. They're forced to postpone playdates because of naps, and when asked the ever-present question "why?", they're forced to admit the embarassing secret to the sneers of other kids. 

 

Naps are major reasons many people rebel against parents earlier than teenage years. Many parents are concerned about revolting teenagers.  Naps set kids against parental units; many kids resent naptime being forced upon them, and begin resenting smaller things in everyday life before considered tolerable. My older sister, Adrianna, strongly dislikes naps, and has had many heated discussions with our unyielding mom about discontinuing them. Parents usually consider naps necessary and beneficial to health. What many parents don't know is that naps are potential roadblocks in the path to better kid/parent understanding.

 

*SBD: The Surgeon General requests that you do not take SBD too seriously. Firstly being it is a figment of my imagination, and my imagination alone. Secondly, who's going to become Surgeon General is still--to my understanding, in any case--up in the air.