By senior year, only about 15% of high school students get enough sleep. You read that correctly. Teens are supposed to get 8 to 10 hours of sleep. Yet the average high-schooler sleeps six and a half hours a night—and many tell me they’re lucky if they get 5 or 6. Given the alarming state of young people’s mental health these days, it is worth reviewing how sleep deprivation adversely affects physical and emotional wellbeing as well as cognitive performance. Besides, teens’ harmful sleep deprivation is something parents actually can remedy.
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