A huge third of the 100 adolescents in a school in the U.S. study said they were asleep in school at least twice a day, and only 20 percent received 8 hours of shut eye on nights chool. The two main culprits for caffeine and technology. Children who snoozed during class consumed Seventy-six per cent more. And the more they multitask with high tech gadgets (texting, talking on the cell, listening to an iPod), the fewer hours they slept.
Of course, no teen goes cold turkey, give some basic rules: limits of beverages containing caffeine (including energy drinks like Red Bull) a day and turning off cell phones and computers an hour before bedtime. “It gives the brain time to slow down and go into sleep mode.”