How Does Sleep Affect Teens?

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We Need to Let Our Teens Sleep More...and Encourage It!!

If you are the parent of a teen(s) you've heard them grumbling and complaining and dragging themselves out of bed, with true suffering every school morning!!! And there is no doubt that due to text messaging, and computer time and homework and after school acitivities AND partying on the weekend (sometimes) - teens are tired.  Well according to a recent journal article in the Journal of Sleep Medicine, after a one-hour delay of school start times, teens increased their average nightly sleep...

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