Sleep is one of the most important things right now for students. We need sleep to protect the aspects of our health because sleep can help us to grow our learning and the most critical role is our mental health. According to health experts, those between the ages of 6 to 13 years old’s need at least 9-11 hours of sleep every night. While ages 14-17 years old’s should get 8-10 hours of sleep. But in reality 50% of the youth is failing this goal. Surveys show that 60 to 705 of students don’t get enough sleep because of early school start time, homework, packed schedules, and extra particular activities. Which makes their bedtime pushed later and later.
Why sleep should be so important for kids 
Sleep doesn’t only help us get a good rest, it helps us expand our critical thinking and gives our brain a break. When a person sleeps it helps us with hormones that control growth and our body repairs tissues. When kids don’t get enough sleep it can lead to mood swings, difficulty of focusing, weaker immune system, lack of energy, and anxiety. Technology is one of the reasons that causes kids to stay up, which makes our brains think that we need to stay up more because technologies contain what they call blue light which makes your brain think that you need to stay up more which gives you less sleep. Also packed homework is also a cause because teachers give a lot of homework making the kids work harder after school and this can make their sleep schedule expand because of staying up late to finish all the work.
How can Parents prevent this?
Parents can prevent this from happening by making a consistent sleeping schedule, giving kids a limit of screen time, making them ready before bed instead of letting them go on their phones, and telling them that sleep is a priority. These are heart examples of how to prevent kids from staying up more during school times. Sleep is a necessity. We need to support our healthy sleep for greater habits and ensure that students should get at least 8- 10 hours of sleep each night, in this way it can help boost our academic performance and well being.
Let’s help students get a better sleep and re-claim their rest because students’ bodies and minds depend on it for a better future.
