The stress of all the day floods over them as soon as they hit their beds. They are suffocated in stress, and although they are exhausted they cannot sleep. The deprivation worsens and the vicious cycle begins anew in a mere six hours. . . make that five hours and fifty- nine minutes. But then again, why am I saying they, because I know this story all too well myself. If not you must be living on another planet, definitely not in North America.
Teenagers require at least eight and preferably ten hours of sleep per night.
North American teenagers sleep, on average, seven hours per night, eight hours if they are lucky. Obviously there is a problem here, and the problem is evident in homes, schools and communities around the world. Teens are rising before daybreak for team practices and falling into bed in the ungodly hours of the night after a shift at work. They are pressured like never before to join clubs. Well, firstly they have a much greater variety of clubs and extracurricular activities to choose from than in earlier days.