The movement for sleeping with a teenager is in many homes Night battle with permanent restrained: Get off your phone! Go to bed!
Research shows that today’s teenagers are more deprived than ever before. Adolescents need between eight and 10 hours of sleep, according to the control and disease prevention centers. But nearly 80% of American teenagers do not understand that, and experts say it affects important areas such as mental health and school attendance.
Sleeping routines are not just for the little ones. Teenagers need them, says Denise Papa, a child development expert and a senior lecturer at the Stanford University’s graduate school.
Experts for adolescent sleep say several smaller changes as parents and teenagers access their sleeps can make a dramatic difference.
The first step to set a better sleep routine deals with technology.
– Disconnect children from your devices at night. Telephones, tablets, streaming services and video games are not the only things that children do not keep at night, but experts agree that the main factor is to delay sleep.
“Get the temptation from the bedroom,” says Pope. If the phone is within the ARM range, it is difficult to neglect when notifying the Buzz. Many teens say they fall asleep while moving or reaching for the phone if they have trouble sleeping, and at the end of moving for hours.
– Be prepared for excuses. “My phone is my alarm clock” is something that a lot of parents hear. Solution: Buy an alarm clock.
– Put screens for an hour before bed. Light exposure prevents the release of melatonin, a hormone who published the brain that makes me feel sleepy.
Then replace screens with a new routine on winds.
– Try to get to the bed at the same time every night and start reading at least 30 minutes before. During that time, the silence of the notice, paste, read the book. To get an idea of what you need to be sleeping your teenager, try online ” Sleep calculator“, like the one from the American Sleep Academy.
– Avoid caffeine and energy afternoon and evening drinks.
– The best sleeping environment is a cold, dark, quiet room. In noisy households, ears and sleeping masks can help you. If the bedroom is too hot, it can affect sleep and sleep, says Adolescent Sleeping Expert Kyla Wahlstrom.
Some of the Sleep Sleeper: Being irritable, grumpy, short tempered, emotionally fragile, unmotivated, impulsive and more likely to see the world and herself through a negative lens. A teenager deprived of sleep can also fall asleep during the day, in a car or in class.
“I often blame adolescents for lazy or rude or bad behavior, many of whom can be attributed to the fact that they are chronically denied,” says the Wendy Troxel, a clinical psychologist who led numerous studies about adolescerc.
How do you say the difference between a dormant teenager and covert but well rested?
– One key sign is what Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse is called “Zombie Jues”.
“If your teen shocks take five times, it lasts to get out of bed, asks you for a big cup of coffee first in the morning, most likely to run blank,” Fong-Isariyawongse, a neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh.
– Extreme mood swings are another sign. Sleep is critical for emotional processing, which is why teenagers are denied into a dream more likely to be irritable, anxiety or depressed.
– Teen deprived sleep may be lagging behind in school, because the dream is cut for learning and consolidating memory.
– Teenagers who sleep less is more likely to make bad choices When it comes to the use of drugs or alcohol, sleepy or reckless driving and risky sexual behavior.
– Does your teen sleep until lunch on weekends? “They are most likely not enough sleep during the week,” says Fong-Isariyawongse. It’s good to sleep a little but try to limit it for a couple of hours. By the way, he is thrown from the body and makes it difficult to wake up when a new school week begins.
Explain to your teenagers why they slept things and that they are not just snacks who say so. Data on mental health and sleep are huge.
– many studies show that depression, anxiety and The risk of suicidal thinking Go up while sleeping.
– No mood, lack of sleep affects physical and athletes ability. That is why several NFL and the NBA team hired sleep trainers. Teenagers that are deprived maintain more physical injuryBecause they take more risks, their verdict is weakened, and reflexes and reactions are not as fast as possible. Teenagers who sleep more work better in sports, and when they become injuries, they have a faster recovery time.
– More teenage accidents come from sleepy driving than driving under the influence of alcohol, study emissions. Teenagers who say they get less than eight hours of sleep, the greater more probable Text while driving, do not wear a seat beltDrink and drive – or enter a car with driver drinking.
As any parent knows, speaking to his teenager to sleep in sleeping doesn’t always work. You have to get their purchase.
“Children should be educated on the state of peace and brain health and emotional health and how they all tie together,” says Wahlstrom. “Tell your children,” You will better at school, better in sports, you will look better after a good dream. “Because until they want to help themselves, they won’t do it.”
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2025-04-16 04:21:00
