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Your natural sleep/wake cycle is biologically determined and known to shift later into the night in adolescence. Sending a teenager to bed earlier does not mea
by superuser2 11y ago
Your natural sleep/wake cycle is biologically determined and known to shift later into the night in adolescence.
Sending a teenager to bed earlier does not mean they will sleep well, or at all, in the period between "bedtime" and their natural sleep phase. The temporal location of sleep, not just its duration, matters.
>http://www.wsj.com/articles/teens-need-later-start-to-school-day-doctors-group-says-1408939263 http://www.wsj.com/articles/teens-need-later-start-to-school...
- Poprishchin 11y agoYes, adolescents undergo changes in melatonin levels due to puberty. This leads to delayed phase preference - teenagers naturally want to sleep from around 1 am to 10 am.