Physicians say they see the consequences of late-to-bed early-to-rise every day in their office. “It’s a sleep deprivation epidemic.'
Once upon a time, it seemed like all you wanted was your baby to sleep past 6 a.m. Fast-forward 15 years later and you’ve gotten your wish: in fact, you’re now dragging your teen out of bed every morning .
“They can’t get the sleep they need if school starts at 7:30 and they have to be on the bus by 6:45,” explains Michael Breus, PhD, a sleep specialist in Los Angeles and author of The Power of When. “That makes a teen who has to get up at 6:30 a.m. for school the equivalent of an adult who has to get up for work at 4:30 a.m. It’s doesn’t mesh with their biological clock, and it’s a recipe for disaster.
How to help your teen sleep betterThe good news is teens’ biological clocks naturally shift back to an earlier wake up time at around age 20 or 21—just around the time they’re graduating from college and preparing to enter the work force. But in the meantime, parents have to grapple with the fallout. Here’s some expert approved advice on how:
Be strict about bedtime. “Even though my kids fought me all through high school, I made sure they were in bed by 10:30 every night,” says Valerie Erde, a mom of two in Greenwich, Conn., who successfully convinced her school district to move high school start times an hour later in 2017.
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