Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.
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Teen-agers don't need less sleep the older they get. They still need as much sleep as they did when they were pre-teens, ... We, as a society, are asking them to sleep at the wrong time.Mary Carskadon
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When children are little, their sleep pressure rises faster so they fall asleep early, but when it's slower, like it is for teenagers, it's harder to get to sleep.
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