Students need sleep to succeed

From YouthTRAIN on Sunday, July 20, 2008 @ 6:00 PM PST
in the "Blog" Category.
stuff.co.nz, 21 July 2008
Teenagers need nine hours of sleep a night and parents can help by getting them back on a school sleep schedule before classes begin, researchers suggest. Early morning classes can be particularly hard on teenagers because "their circadian rhythms change at puberty and they want to go to sleep later and wake up later," Robert Roberts, a professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health, said. more...

Of course it's not only school work that is affected by a lack of sleep - it affects all areas of a teenager's life. When counselling young people who are not coping with some aspect of life it can be useful to determine whether or not they are getting enough sleep. Not sleeping enough not only causes problems but limits the teens ability to cope with problems.