They're not going to be able to go to bed earlier. When you ask kids to get up earlier to be in school, all that's going to happen is you're going to deduct time from their nighttime sleep.

It's a more vulnerable period of time because of the intensity of the cognitive and emotional changes that occur in adolescents. If you have adolescents that are sleep-deprived, it may affect the way they feel about themselves.

And that is the tip of the iceberg because you know they aren't alert before they fall asleep. That is very alarming to me.

It's just great for the kids, you know when daddy's gone they still have something to hold and hang on to and sleep with and cuddle.

Our kids became very confident and they answered confidently.

It was really exciting, you could tell our kids were very nervous in the dry runs. But when it started, we just kind of took it on.