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Parents need to help their teenagers get enough sleep

Written by: David Castillo on August 6th, 2010

Parents need to help their teenagers get enough sleep | read this item

Teenagers tend to stay up late hours during the summer. This makes it harder for them to adjust their body clocks when the school year begins.

Supposedly, teenagers need eight to nine hours of sleep per night. But, as most parents would know, most teenagers refuse to do so. As a result, they become sleep deprived during weekdays. And the condition worsens as the school year progresses.

Due to sleep deprivation, teenagers will underperform in class. Lack of sleep will make them drowsy, while also giving them concentration problems. In addition to that, it also puts them at risk whenever they’re performing daily activities, like driving.

The best thing that parents can do to solve this is to develop and maintain a sleep routine for the teenager. Televisions, computers, and cell phones will rob teenagers of sleep time. Drinking coffee will also disrupt their sleep clock.

When left unchecked, sleep deprivation can also lead to sleep disorders, like sleep apnea.