Have you ever dreamed of getting your teen out of bed hassle free? It would be so much easier if schools changed the start time from 7:30 to 8:30. This would allow teens to get the proper amount of sleep suggested by doctors. Ninety percent of teens are sleep deprived. Teens not getting the proper amount of sleep is negatively affecting education, causing mental health and physical problems.
Teens should be getting 9 to 9 ¼ hours of sleep a night. The average teen only gets 7 to 7 ½ hours of sleep. Teens can boost their academic performance, reduce tardiness and dropouts, have better focus, sociability and better homework results by getting the proper amount of sleep. Sleep deprivation causes you to have a too-moody-to-do-anything feeling. Getting the recommended amount of sleep makes teens less likely to depend on caffeine to stay awake. Studies show that teen’s who get’s let sleep are more prone to tardiness, absences, bad grades and falling asleep in
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“Teens may feel wide awake at bedtime, even when they are exhausted” (Wolfson & Carskadon, 1998) “Studies show that over time, people who are getting six hours of sleep, instead of seven or eight, begin to feel that they’ve adapted to that sleep deprivation -- they’ve gotten used to it,” Gehrman says. “But if you look at how they actually do on tests of mental alertness and performance, they continue to go downhill. So there’s a point in sleep deprivation when we lose touch with how impaired we are.”(Vital Sleep) Getting the right amount of sleep and changing school schedules to work with the natural sleep patterns of teens improved mood and attitude. Sleep restores metabolism and help with learning, memory and emotional balance. Consquestyly, ninety percent of people who have insomnia have depression. Insomnia is a condition of not being able to sleep/restless sleep. Thus, there are many mental effects of not getting enough