Yesterday in kindergarten...

[trof]

Whew...
The kids were antsy.
Squirming, fidgeting, with an attention span of about 15 seconds.

(If you haven't read previous 'kindergarten posts', Miz t. and I are volunteering one morning a week at our local elementary school. Education funding in our county has taken quite a hit.)

I mentioned the kids' lack of attention to a teacher I was working with in the computer lab.
"Full moon.", she said.
"That and frontal passages. You can always expect that kind of behavior from them then."

Wow.
Ain't sure if I believe this, but it's an interesting theory.
What do you think?
:shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear trof...

I've heard this too, and I too am not sure I believe it.

There's NO data that supports the full moon theory. And what on earth are "frontal passages?"

Never heard of that!

I dunno...

:shrug:

:hi:

[trof]

2. Cold fronts and warm fronts. Low and high pressure fronts.

Weather systems that move through an area.
I can tell when a low is coming through.
Occasionally I'll get a very mild, low grade ophthalmic migraine when a low is on the way.

Sometimes it just 'flashers' in my peripheral vision.
Sometimes it's a mild headache with the flashers.
Not debilitating, just slightly annoying.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I'm sorry you get those...

I've never heard of those before...

It's interesting!

And I'm glad it's not debilitating!

[trof]

5. West coast doesn't get the fronts the rest of us do.

You guys are kind of blessed.
The fronts usually build as weather systems move across CONUS.
(Continental U.S.)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. No wonder I never heard of them!

Ya learn something every day...

We are blessed, really...

[Demoiselle]

19. I thought it had something to do with sinuses! I guess I was slightly right. !

[NMDemDist2]

4. hubby and i (and several coworkers also complained) of being just exhausted yesterday

and there was a big front coming through

today is 'better' but still not tiptop

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Been teaching for twelve years

BELIEVE IT!

:scared:

[MorningGlow]

8. Former teacher AND former retail worker here

If I had been a police officer or EMT, I would have hit the trifecta for professions where you can observe the full-moon effect first hand. I BELIEVE IT. When I worked full-moon nights at a bookstore, it was like the bus from the looney bin unloaded at our front door. Never failed. We always had the weirdest night, with complete...well...lunatics all over the store.

I hadn't thought about frontal passages affecting people's moods--I usually think of their effect on physical ailments (joint pain, headaches, etc.)--but I wouldn't be surprised.

[elleng]

9. Believe it .

Similar story at hospital emergency rooms.

[BuelahWitch]

10. I work customer service for various companies and can always tell a full moon

That's when the bat shit crazy people call, or a large percentage heavy breathers. :hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. believe it. ancedotal evidence is still, after all, evidence.

I have it by the ton, evidence, that is.

[Deep13]

13. I respectfully disagree. nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. awesome

:toast:

[Deep13]

12. Waning gibbous.

What the hell is a frontal passage?

[Moondog]

14. Passage of a weather front.

This causes, among other things, changes in barometric pressure, thought by some to cause behavioral changes in susceptible individuals.

[Deep13]

16. That could be.

I feel like crap when the barometer drops sometimes.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Mother of four, here, and I used to joke about this with other parents of young children.

I've never seen any scientific data to support it, but it sure seemed to me that the kids behavior was different when there was a full moon.

[KatyaR]

18. I think there's something to the full moon theory--

I used to work in a hospital, and it seemed like everything, especially in the ER, went crazy about the time of the full moon. Even the ER docs were convinced that there had to be something to it.

Animals seem to be affected by cold fronts--my pets have always seemed to get a lot more frisky and goofy when the weather cooled down. So why shouldn't kids? Seems reasonable to me.