With vacation time practically over, the next thing that kids and their parents have to do right now is to get themselves used to sleeping early. Being used to sleeping late or with little sleep due to break time enjoyment, sleep stands as one of the needed aspects that need to address before schools officially start.

Parents should start the regiment about 3 weeks prior to the 1st day of school, and adjust bedtimes by about 15-20 minutes every 3 days.

Officials say the start of a new school year is especially difficult for teenagers. In adolescence, the later sleep and waking pattern is both behavioral and physiological. Tired teens are more likely to be irritable, have difficulty concentrating in school and may see their performance suffer both in academics and athletics.

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While the Spring does bring in a lot of good things, sleep is something that tends to be affected. No thanks to extended daylight, teenagers find themselves coping with the extended daylight exposure and hence incurring some sleep problems as supported by researchers over at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC).

Over time when coupled with having to rise early for school, this delay in sleep onset may lead to teen sleep deprivation and mood changes, and increase risk of obesity and perhaps under-performance in school. The new findings detail the impact of early evening light in spring on melatonin onset and sleep times.

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You can add another issue to highlight among teens if they lack sleep. A study showed that lack of sleep could become a high risk issue for teens who lack sufficient shuteye. Teens who go to be after midnight are more likely to experience depression, especially the ones who get less than 5 hours of sleep. Worst, 50% of those sleep-deprived teens may even commit suicide!

Doctors recommended that parents remove television sets and video games from teenagers’ rooms to help them get nine hours of sleep each night. Make sure they get sufficient sleep to avoid falling into these sleep issues and trauma.

(Source) Foxreno

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Here is something for the teenagers who love Hello Kitty items. You can sleep with them by putting on these Hello Kitty Sleep tank, made of woven fabric tanks. It is made of 100% cotton, screen printed and comes in two design choices:

1. Hello Kitty Tokyo
2. Hello Kitty Theme

This is certainly something for girls which have loved this lovable character since they were kids. A good sleep wear to consider for the price of $11.89.

(Source) Target

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As far as teenagers are concerned, they are practically victims of lack of sleep. Sometimes they feel that they can take on the world and still keep going like they are 100% sane. But at times, the little things such as mood swings and lack of alertness may become varying marks that make us totally unaware of the things around us. And most of them are because we lack the proper amount of sleep.

(Source) Post-Gazette Now

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