Snooze... or Lose! 10 "No-War" Ways to Improve Your Teen's Sleep Habits (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction: Waking Up to the Need for Sleep
Introduction: Waking Up to the Need for Sleep
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There have been many frantic mornings trying to get the kids out of bed and out the door and getting my husband and me to work without sending everyone's blood pressure into the danger zone. ("Elyssa, are you up?
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The latest research clearly shows that lack of sleep doesn't result just in bleary-eyed youngsters trying to keep from keeling over at the breakfast table. Inadequate sleep, which is anything less than eight and a half hours a nght, can have negative effects -- and may have dangerous effects under eight hours -- on just about every aspect of teens' lives: their stress level, their grades, their health, their sports performance, their growth, their mood, their emotional stability, their memory, their energy level, their ability to think clearly, their risk of injury, their skin condition, their weight, and their use of drugs and alcohol.
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The sleep community also knows that there's a physiological factor that contributes significantly to teenage sleep deprivation: Teens' brains are actually wired to keep them out of step with most of the world. The secretion of melatonin, a brain hormone that helps cause drowsiness, begins signaling hours later in adolescents than it does in children or adults, turning teens into night owls and making it extremely difficult for them to be awake enough to learn anything during the first few periods of school or to successfully follow a typical adult schedule.
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Then I talk about the link between sleep deprivation and serious threats to health and well-being, including high stress, obesity, emotional problems, and increased risk of injury; I devote a separate chapter to the newly understood facts about the direct and critical link between sleep and learning. Then I offer a short primer on sleep itself -- what it is, how it works, and why teens need so much of it -- and information about the cultural forces and the electronic forces that keep teens from getting the sleep they require.
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I discuss steps you can take to follow your own healthy sleep program, live a healthy lifestyle, and maintain a supportive home environment. I also talk about what you can do to make your teen's school and community more aware of the dangerous effects of sleep deprivation and how you can encourage your local middle and high schools to move their start times later -- a proven way to increase teen learning that's picking up momentum across the United States.
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But for the most part the sleep program she follows -- the one included here -- gives her the energy, the attitude, and the ability to do and be her best. I believe that program, plus the additional information and solutions offered in this book, will help you and your teen wake up to the importance of sleep and help your teen get the healthy, success-producing sleep she needs.
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