Family Tips

Teenager need about 8 to 9.5 hours of sleep per 24 hours, but many of them do not get it. In puberty period they even need more time for sleep. Teenagers` schedule is often packed with school, extracurricular and sport activities, and often they are sleep deprived (or lacking a healthy amount of sleep).
Lack of one hour of sleep per night is like a full night without sleep by the end of the week. And among other things, lack of sleep can cause decreased attentiveness, short-term memory, delayed response time.
And all these in its turn can cause generally bad behavior, problems in school, stimulant use, and driving accidents, as according to statistics more than half of “asleep-at-the-wheel” accidents are caused by teens.
Adolescents also experience a change in their order of day — they want to stay up late and wake up later, which often leads trying to catch up on sleep during the weekend. This sleep schedule abnormality can actually intensify the problems and make getting to sleep at a reasonable hour during the week even harder.
Best for a teenager try to go to bed at the same time every night and wake up at the same time every morning, having at least 8 to 9 hours of sleep.