Teens Sleep

Nothing feels worse than hearing your alarm clock ring in the morning when your body is screaming for a few extra hours of rest. Given the opportunity, who wouldn’t get more sleep? If I had a choice between a year of unlimited Easter candy and a year of unlimited sleep, I’d say “Bye-bye Cadbury” and “Hello, bed!”

Take a look inside a high school classroom. You will most likely find a teacher at the front of the class and students sitting at their desks. Yet, look closer, and you might notice a familiar trend: many of these students are not paying attention. Instead, they are dozing off or even completely asleep.

What is so hard for teens these days to get enough sleep? Why are they never rested up and always tired in class? These are some of the many questions people have on teens and sleep.
“According to the survey results, once a week roughly one-quarter of high school students fall asleep in class, 22% fall asleep doing homework and 14% are late to or miss school because of insufficient sleep. Are/were you one of these students? Do you know these students? Why are teenagers not getting sufficient sleep, in your view?

After reading an essay written by National Sleep Foundation about teens sleep , I was shocked to learn how many teenagers are not getting enough sleep at night, and how dangerous the lack of sleep is. How many of us heard from our parents to go to sleep and ignore it. I was for sure one of them and many of my classmates as well. Sleeping during the class, lack of concentration, disturbing behavior to prevent falling asleep are known to all of us who had problem with getting enough time for sleep. To get sufficient sleep teenagers should get eight to nine hours of sleep each day but the truth is most of teens sleeps only six to seven hours. The main question for me is why teenagers are not getting enough sleep? There are many reasons for which adolescents don’t get enough sleep, which are: biological factors, technology, environment and social expectations, food and drinks, as well as school. When the child transforms into the teenager and experience poverty its body goes thru a lot of changes. In addition, changes occur in the biological clock during adolescence, creating a natural tendency to fall asleep later and wake up later. Also, his or her body has changes in the amount of hormones which cause the problem with falling asleep earlier to get enough sleep for the next day. Moreover, one study indicated that secretion of melatonin, a hormone that prepares the body for sleep, occurs later and later in the evening as a child goes through adolescence and shuts off later in the morning. Because of all the changes which teens body is going thru, it is hard for teens to fall asleep before 11 pm,