Middle and high school students have to balance academics, sports, social lives, and additional extracurricular activities. Keeping up with these responsibilities leaves minimal time for relaxing, let alone getting a good night’s sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recently released a position statement [...]
Starting school later may have a positive impact on important aspects of high school life. That’s the evidence from a new review of published research. The review found that teens slept about 19 minutes longer on school nights when school started up to 60 [...]
Teens have until February 20 to enter the 2017 Sleep Recharges You High School Video Contest. Sponsored by the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, the contest invites teens to make and submit a creative video about the importance of sleep. Up for grabs is a [...]
The National Healthy Sleep Awareness Project has launched the “Sleep Recharges You” campaign, urging teens to make sleep a top priority. Parents and teachers can play an important role by helping teens to understand the importance of sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine [...]
High school students have until February 29 to enter the 2016 Sleep Story Video Contest. Sponsored by the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, the contest invites teens to make and submit a creative video about the importance of sleep. Up for grabs is a grand [...]
A new study shows that high school students lose sleep on school nights after the spring change to daylight saving time. The study involved 35 high school students. They had an average age of 16.5 years. Their nightly sleep was measured by wrist actigraphy. [...]
The alarm goes off at 6 a.m. Then it goes off four more times, because an extra 10 minutes of sleep trumps sitting down for breakfast. A granola bar on the bus is the gourmet breakfast of choice. The morning bus arrives at its [...]
High school students have until February 9th to enter the 2015 Sleep Story Video Contest. Sponsored by the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, the contest invites teens to make and submit a creative video about the importance of sleep. Up for grabs is a grand [...]
A new study suggests that teen drivers who start class earlier in the morning are involved in more car accidents than peers with a later school start time. The study analyzed data from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. It compared teen crash rates [...]
The summertime sleep habits of most teens today would be enough to make Ben Franklin blow a proverbial fuse. A 3 a.m. to Noon sleep schedule isn’t likely to meet his standard of “early to bed, early to rise.” But it can be the [...]
