I f dragging your teen out of bed in the morning is one of the biggest hurdles in your day, you're not alone.
Many teens have trouble waking up, staying awake in school, or falling asleep at night.
Research has shown that puberty resets teenagers' biological clocks, prompting them to fall asleep later and wake up later than younger children or adults do. At the same time, the need for sleep increases during adolescence to an average of 9.2 hours a night for a typical teen. For many young people, getting that much sleep is difficult especially during the school year. Students would have to go to bed by 9 p.m. in order to get enough sleep, but most of them don't make it to bed until much later. A survey of Rhode Island teens showed that they averaged 7.3 hours of sleep on school nights about two hours less than they really need and that one-third of the students slept 6.5 hours per night or less.