Sleepy teens: A public health epidemic | Wendy Troxel | TEDxManhattanBeach
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- Sleep deprivation - What most parents, teachers, and school administrators think of as just part of being a teenager, Rand Corporation sleep scientist Wendy Troxel labels loss of teen sleep a public health epidemic. Not a function of being social or participating in social media, Wendy believes sleep loss is mostly due to school start times - a matter of public policy.
Dr. Troxel’s research focuses on the interface between sleep, the social environment, and health, and on implications for public policy.
Her research is supported by the Department of Defense and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. As an active clinical psychologist, Dr. Troxel helps patients overcome sleep disorders through behavioral (nonpharmacologic) treatment. She was the founding director of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine-an accredited training program in Behavioral Sleep Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She continues to provide research and clinical training opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral students interested in sleep medicine. She also holds leadership roles in several professional sleep societies, is an Associate Editor for the journal “Sleep Health”, and has been involved in local and national efforts focused on healthy school start times for adolescents.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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The Undying Fighter this is me most school days, which is why I start homework at 9 or10 and go to sleep around 11-12. Thankfully I have a car now so I can get away with waking up at 7:40 and barely making it to school on time at 8:15. I’m usually alright after third period but get tired after lunch, during my hard classes, which I didn’t do as well in partially because that’s when I get tired. Then my energy picks up about one or two hours from when I get back from school, I get tired again, and am awake when I’m supposed to be sleeping. We talked about this in school and the teenager sleep problem, but nobody’s done anything about it because it would “inconvenience the elementary parents and they’d have to change the bus routes”. If they picked up the elementary kids first, and then went back later around 8:30 to pick up the middle school and high schoolers to start school at 9, I wouldn’t complain. Plus scores would probably go up a lot considering they place our standardized tests in the morning before lunch when many of us are tired and didn’t have time to get breakfast. I’m just saying. Sorry for the rant.
The Undying Fighter RELATABLE
So, GO TO BED AT 6pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s so annoying
Exactly
If you yell FIRE FIRE to wake someone up everytime, then in the emergency of an actual fire they are going to be like "ugh five more minutes"
Hahah.. that is exactly what I thought.
@SafeSpeeder so what are the long term damages?
Taaamas crying wolf
Mal Luk memory loss, poor cognition, emotional processing and learning difficulties
@@malluk7064 you age much more rapidly
A highschooler at 4 AM : I don’t need sleep I need answers
This comment is so underrated.
*spams that friend you know already finished the assignment but won't give you the answers at 4AM*
lol same
me at 3:20 am. I don't need sleep, I need to reply
Me, exactly right now
"Getting 8 hours of sleep is like getting a C on your report card"
*Laughs in F in sleep*
Yo same
Bro I’m out here getting Ys in sleep.
I'm out here with a Z
You guys are getting sleep?
@@kokeech ikr
8-10 hours???? What???? Bro I havent had that much sleep since elementary school😂
Yeah I hardly got 6hours...
@SafeSpeeder Wtf bro im gonna die soon
In that case everybody in my school is gonna die before 30. We all get 4-7 hours during school. You don’t get how nice sleeping during the summer is for me, it actually feels like coming out of a coma
@SafeSpeeder guess ill die
TheChildren I know, sleeping in during summer is amazing. Haven’t felt that in a long time.
science: “teens need more sleep to function well”
schools: “well yes, but actually no”
Hannah Bosetti,
I don’t think you said that right
That's not how the meme works...
Hannah Bosetti it goes as this
Scientist: are teens at your school sleeping well?
School: well yes but actually no
@@rsnordhagen soo memes have rules, huh.
2 anos atrás Well, memes have general formats. The "well yes but actually no" memes is typically used as an answer to a yes/no question - though I'd say this particular use does fit in terms of the wording (though not in terms of the meme's normal use).
Summer sleep schedule : 14 hours of sleep
School schedule: 4, take it or leave it
yupp
Same
Yeah, and then when I sleep in on the weekends my mom gets pissed and when I try to give her the science she doesn't believe me and I am so pissed right now. And I'm not even sleep deprived today! I got 10 hours in. I'm just angry with her.
I honestly dont hate going to school. I just hate waking up at 6 am
Agreed and in my case i have to wake up at 5:30 am so... yeah
smh 5 am is my normal time thankfully I can sleep now in quarantine
Well when I grew up I thought I was abnormal for wanting to sleep all morning until I met an ex felon who did 27 years. I got close to him and we ended up dating. He was always so scheduled and up nice and early. I was like wow I finally know someone who likes getting up early! So I would ask him what it was like. He preceded to tell me how he simply can't sleep much at night because all his traumatizing nightmares come back to him and in that moment I knew society has it wrong.
Same
Nowadays, it is actually tough to get enough sleep even during quarantine, because schools just give us more homework. WAY more homework.
I can only imagine what school meetings to decide the timings go like.
Supervisor 1: "Okay, so how do we make sure that students literally do not get enough sleep even during quarantine?"
Supervisor 2: "Give more homework."
Supervisor 3: "Make school longer."
Supervisor 4: "Make the teachers teach even faster, along with Supervisor 3's idea."
Supervisor 1: "PeRfEcT"
School board executives: "I'm gonna pretend like I didn't hear that"
"did y'all hear somethin', was... was it the wind"
what im getting from every one of these speeches: fix the school system
They wont do it bc total capitalism
Angelica Basile im actually very active in debate and protest forums that are trying to fix problems like this. The problem is that adults don't take us seriously because we are still in highschool.
Angelica Basile i didnt think you were calling me lazy, no worries dear.☺
wait where can i find such debates and forums, seeing as i;m in montreal and street protests are a common thing, I really want to know where to find these forums
Angelica Basile if only. The school system was made for the industrial era to make people ready for working in factories, so they wanted to make the kids think how they wanted them to think and follow instructions just right. They squash the imagination on kids, including me, and replace it with “follow what you’re told and don’t change it at all or you fail”
Sorry I’m really tired
8-10 hours? I'm lucky to get 6. I can't remember the last time I've gotten more than 7 hours of sleep.
sadly, me too.
「raii」 yeah, last time for me was Thanksgiving night. 1 of 4 this year more then 7.
7 is the most hours I can get it’s normally less Because I cant sleep
I can relate. When i get 7 hours of sleep is a miracle, i mostly get only 5~6 hours.
It is currently 00:31 and I have to be up at 5:45. I'm having a great time.
you’ll never know how i got these likes
Kaiser Roop my school this year starts at 7:40 AM. So I leave the house at 7 AM, and it takes me an hour and a half to get ready, that means I have to wake up at 5:30 AM. Since I go to public school, I get to sleep around 11 or 11:30 PM. This gives me, an adolescent 14 year old, 5 hours of sleep total. Its not enough.
@@copiasrats Even if you had the extra hour of sleep, you still spend way too much time getting ready. You should prioritize finding ways to more efficiently prepare for school so that you can get ready in half the time and give yourself the extra sleep you need.
@@copiasrats What takes you so long? Try to find out one how you can prioritize each morning, so you don't lose so much time. I'm 15, and I don't stress too much because my school starts at 8:25, and it's later than most, but it perfect. I used to go to a school that started at 7:25 and I actually had to keep my eyes closed sometimes because my eyes hurt. Try to find everything that you can save time on, it will definitely help lower that 90 minute delay.
I have to get out of the house by 6:30 to catch my 6:40 am bus. Isn't this AMAZING
I feel bad for American kid. I'm Canadian and we start around 8 to 8:30 am
The sad thing is no one will really do anything about it
Ishani Shetty we can protest
The sad thing is most people won't do anything about an issue raised in a TED talk. TED talks really are just a way to vent societal issues
Ishani Shetty my district is actually pushing to make school later. The problem is parents have work which interfere.
Andrew Godly then don't be here...do something. Also the people giving the talks are most likely doing something about what they're talking about...
Why can't you do something about yourself?
Watching a bunch of TED Talks is really depressing because you see all these problems and you know none of them are going to get fixed
Yup
Don't loose hope. These talks are often not the catalysts, true, but they're symptoms of greater movements that have grown enough for people to speak out about them. They're also very useful resources to understand others' opinions; I find this one especially helpful, and I think it will do more good than just the people listening in.
William Fifelski i know right, i just want to die
That was pretty random
My school district switched times so, not all hope is lost :D
TheChubbyCatWithCake lucky, my school is adding more school days
School system: “I dON’t sEe tHE PrOblEm HerE”
Teenager: *is sleepy*
Schools: Why are you sleepy?
Also schools: It's probably those damn internet and online games.
Edit: I mean, yeah, it's true, but there are other underlying factors. I'm not gonna say what. Very complicated and not easy to explain. Also requires a lot of research about it.
School staff and teachers say this because they REFUSE to submit to change. They see how generations are billions of years ahead of the older generation's intellect (not intelligence, INTELLECT) due to videogames, and try so hard to downgrade the actual education we need by claiming "videogames cause violence" - they don't want newer generations to come to be different, because god forbid you express an opinion associated with videogames. Not really surprised that the phrase "OK Boomer" came up as a trend.
I mean..... It is
It’s that damned phone screen decreasing your melatonin
@Kamil Klepacki they are relaxing themselves by video games after a stressful day at school
@@poonkuzhalik5432 imagine having time to play video games after school-
Bet this is the only TED talk I wont be seeing at school 😂
😂😂
valerie My teacher showed us this video at school 😂
Facts
Lol😂
No also the ones that explain how bad standardised testing is
If school isn’t a place to SLEEP
then home isn’t s place to WORK
Yes
This doesn't even make sense??
@Midori_Is_Taco 61 Doesn't make sense. Use complete sentences.
@@F_Du_Sea we're not allowed to sleep at school, but we're all sleep deprived by the time we get home and are expected to do homework during our rest time after going to school for 8 hours
@@goliadquartz U understood that, the logic doesn't make sense. What does homework have to do with sleep?
The world and science: “school needs to start later”
The government and education system: “thank you, very cool”
The world and science: "School needs to start later"
School: "We will start early it's your problem"
shes basically just saying that im gonna die
Same lol, all I heard was death death and heart failure
@@Celestial_2016 probaly not lying cause every day I only get 2-7 hours but for me too function at max I need around 9, my depression is so bad when it's around the lower side
We're all going to die. She's right
"8 hours is the minimum amount of sleep a teen should get"
Laughs with 3 hours of sleep
Crys in the corner after having only had a 30 min nap all night
@SafeSpeeder Sometimes I don't sleep at all for 1-2 consecutive days. My longest streak is 3 days.
Me looking at this with my four-hours-of-sleep-every-day-for-a-week eyes and starts crying to myself softly
same, literally the same amount too
ZoreX same but 3days without sleep happened to me a lot this past 2years not because i didn't have the time to sleep just because i couldn't fall asleep... it sucks because generally the 3rd day my eyes won't stop crying and focusing on something more than a minute becomes practically impossible...
_I love how you _*_GET IN TROUBLE FOR YAWNING_* (it's somehow "rude" to feel tired) _even though you literally wake up at 6am every day._
@SafeSpeeder That makes sense.
People usually see yawning as a sign of boredom, doesn't make much sense because yawning just brings more oxygen to your brain.
I have to leave the house at 6:30 just to get to class on time, it's gotten to the point where people just skip class so they can get a bit more sleep, they're more productive that way. My sister is a little weirdo though, she loves getting to school at 7, almost a whole hour before it starts at 7:40
chloedaismith Me and my brother usually roll up in there around 7:10-7:15 despite a start time of 8. I just like to chill out in the car, put some German metal on, and hang out for a while. Perfect way to start the morning
@warner tesla I mean, I got sent to the safe seat (or alternative seat) for yawning cuz I wasn't paying attention or trying hard enough or whatever
literally everyone: “kids need 8 hours of sleep to function well”
school: “y’all hear sum??”
School tells us to get more sleep to learn better but then set massive homeworks and coursework.
The suicide bit hit me.
When I was 16, getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night, 5 nights a week, I wanted to kill myself. I knew it wasn't me thinking that, just my brain, so I'm glad this woman said that.
If you can't meme, you can't dream - I was the same in high school especially my senior year. I was doing AP, working on applications, applying for scholarships, volunteering. I had some wonderful opportunities (and experiences) but I felt so worthless and miserable for long stretches even though I was succeeding and I’m pretty sure the lack of sleep just made it worse
rip me rn
Why didn’t you go to bed earlier?
@@drumdilly Sometimes I would, but that just ended in me staring at the ceiling for 3-4 hours. After a while I got bored of staring at the ceiling and just stayed up late.
You are your brain
School: We want our students to be happy and *energized!*
Also school: Wake up at 6:00 AM
I have to wake up at 5:30 to get ready and I usually end up going to sleep around 12:30 because it's hard for me to go to sleep.
@Wilhelm II. You're 100% a psychopath
@Wilhelm II. Aha! You, sir, are the Pinnacle of the human nature. The spirit of an early riser. Truly ready to put your all into the world.
No, these people complaining don't have valid reasons. It's not as if some of us need jobs to support our families. It's not as if those jobs let us out at
11 p.m! I have plenty of time until my wake up time of 4:30-5:00.
It just shows how special you are, being a morning person. People around you can just *change* their circumstances and go to bed earlier.
This entire video makes no sense, huh?
@Wilhelm II. It was only a compliment.
That's why my school puts caffeinated flavored water in lunch as an option to buy
Trying to plot how much time to sleep be like:
“Okay, school starts at 8:00am, but I take the bus which leaves at 7:15am, so I should wake up at 6:30am to get ready and walk to the bus stop, and I can sleep on the bus and we have English today I can probably sleep in that class, my teacher won’t notice- oh, but I have a math test before English... I was gonna study on the bus because I *fell asleep last night...* when will I sleep now? I only got like... three hours last night...”
I shouldn’t be doing this. I should be able to sleep.
Edit: (updated the story)
I have a bit of difficulty to sleep and it's very hard when it's school period. I wake up 5:10am, i'm in the bus stop at 6:00am and in the school at almost 7:00am because the class starts at 7:10am.
@xLιz Gℓαssεs1 Damn, 7:10? That’s crazy. Where do you live?
this is EXACTLY how I think everyday
My bus usually picks me up around 6:45am....
It really be like this. School starts at 8:25 for me but I still wake up at 6 just to get a good start to the day. I think schools should be starting at 10 am if they really want to make a change
“8 hours is kind of like getting a C on your report card”
Me, who stayed up 32 hours straight studying:
*nervous sweat*
Some sort of demon you dead yet lol bro how you do that
Coffee and food
How did you done that? How can you staying up for 32 hours straight without sleep? Please teach me, I can't even stay awake for up to about 21 hours.
Rou Xuan Ng i think it was 2 red bulls, a coffee and anxiety :) finished the day off with a panic attack
I can stay up that long but not for study
"'We need to toughen them up for the real world' is like telling the mother of a two year old, 'Don't let Johnny nap, or he won't be ready for kindergarten!'"
Yes. Exactly.
kayla slack we had nap time in kindergarten after lunch every day!
By the time you get to the "real world," your biological clock has adjusted, and getting up at 7 to go to work at 8 is no longer a hassle.
just imagine this with an old granpa voice "ohohohhh dees garsh dan millennials. Back in ma day we haed to carry logs over our heads foe physed warmup dees kids needa toufin up "
wym I wake up at 6 am every day
lol I usually seep at 2 am and wake up at 12. I can never get used to waking up at 7
Like her or not, _she spitting straight facts_
The Yeetmeister on gawd nuff said😤
why wouldnt u like her
Bro, I think everyone, especially high school and college students agree with her.
School: "ok sure, school now starts at 8.30."
Also school: "...ends at 5pm, heres some homework due tomorrow haha."
And the homework be like:
Biology: 2hrs
English: 1.5 hrs
History: 1hr
Math: 3hrs
Spanish: 1hr
Oh, and don't forget to study for the 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 tests due this month that we encourage you to study for daily!!!
@@graceelathrop6371 And make sure to keep up healthy habits like eating healthy, getting a good sleep, and remember, *stay positive*! If you manage your time, you will definitely have time for friends.
Me: says every topic in the video
My mom: wHeRe dId YoU hEaR tHaT fRoM, sNaPcHaT?
Octopus Platter - Brawl Stars white boy
welcome to my world
Same she just dismissed what I had to say like everything else and blamed it on all “tEcHnoLOgY”...
Well my mom or any superior ranked person in my family would respond with 'it is okay because it is habit-forming.' In the holiday month, with no school and as i am very very sadly sure, no job! I do wake up early I just go back to sleep because there is absolutely nothing to do!
Schools: Why are teenagers so sleepy all the time?
Also schools: ill start classes at 7 in the morning, end at 4pm and give you an unreasonable amount of homework that you're expected to finish.
yikes how long does it take you to do the homework you’re given?
It takes me around 5-6 hours
I just wind up falling asleep by accident when I get home but it happens every day so I mean nothing is gonna get done
Im lucking to have an divorced mother😅😅😅😅 shes always working all the time so some days i can get away with sleeping in😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
Same
Let's not forget the huge amounts of homework we get too. Even my mom, and trust me she's the type doesn't like it when you complain about work, thinks that it's almost cruel how much I get. They expect me to wake up at 6 AM when I finally finish my homework at 12 AM. Okay. Sure.
Airi Rose right? plus- a lot of people have disorders that make this EVEN worse. like ADD, ADHD, Derealization, depersonalization, Anxiety, insomnia and etc.
and on top of that older teens have jobs to juggle as well
Bohemiaaah having like half of those, I can't sleep, I wake up early, I can't. It's ugh.
aromantic I get it :(
I finish my hw at 1 am and get up at 6 am
Tecaher: I see you are falling asleep, does my class bore you?
Me: No, if you haven’t noticed thank to this system I am sleep deprived
@@pezvonpez sometimes yeah, but it’s funny cause most of the time in my case those same teachers would ask how many hours of sleep I had gotten, I would say four or five depending on the day and then they actually PITIED me and told me to please sleep and not mind their class aksjsjsjsj i feel like they actually agreed
The last time I got 8 hours of sleep was when I donated blood that day and my body couldn’t physically take me staying up past 10 pm. I have homework, tennis practice, and workout after school I can’t go to bed at 10 pm. I actually remember my ap bio teacher asking me why I was so energetic first period the next day
I feel you I also play tennis and workout do clubs and music and it’s just ugggh 😭. I hate school only bc I don’t get enough sleep. If I got more sleep I would actually love school. 😭
Can we send this video to all school adminstrators
Nicholas Copsey hahahaha
Go for it I'm down
Nicholas Copsey SOUNDS GOOD
I’ll let my dad know
sharing this with my admins I'm working with at school on stuff
Everyone says to go to sleep earlier YOU CANNOT SLEEP IF YOU ARE NOT TIRED
THANK YOU 🙌
YESS so truuuue
Thank you so much
Preach
Yes exactly
One of the reasons why japanese students are thought of as “super smart”. Partially because of our ideology of hard work, but because our schools start at 8:50 am.
Pfft, show off
I'm from Australia and the schools I've been to start at around *9 am* and finish around 3 pm. It's awesome!
I'm homeschooled and have about the same schedule lol! Except somewhat often it ends at 4:30 or so. I get up at 7 AM so i can have a little more actual time in the morning. Still always tired. Rip.
My Aussie high school started at 8:15 and ended at 3:20 but it was the extracurricular activities before and after (starting as early as 6:30am and ending as late as 10pm) that really got to me tbh
Y'all very lucky
Such lucky people...
weird flex
If only my school district cared about student health
Ouran Simmer same
If only ALL school districts cared
atleast you have yuri on ice to get you through the hard times
We got less summer this year. Fml
It's actually more of a chain reaction. Your state issues out useless end of semester exams you have to take, which then pushes back education so you have to learn more useless things, and then that means you don't get as much free time, then it turns into bringing it all home, and then your sleep is affected. It's not always the school's fault. But we do need to hold the state and the district accountable.
Yeah but let's face it, no school is ever gonna care and no teacher is ever gonna try to do anything about it, and honestly nobody will. All of us teenagers are just going to continued to be called lazy
My school time is changing to 8:30 next year
@@haorae i heard it was for their own reasons tho not because students need it too change but at least its changing
@SuperSonicSpeeder i usually just try to make up all my missed sleep in class
You would be surprised how many good teachers there are. I’m in a small school and all the teachers there are genuinely good teachers. Of course there are a couple flaws but nobody is perfect
My school is trying to make some changes and there are discussions about it. Currently, once a week, we have late start days in the middle of the week where school starts at 8:45
“They drink energy drinks in shots”
Me: sure.... shots
Logan Larocque Shots of espresso and other forms of caffeine
*laughs in vyvance prescription*
My school straight up sold energy drinks and coffee in the student store. My friend would get three shots every morning and be physically shaking by first period.
Coffee is for me
School: *Angry about students arriving late and sleeping during class*
Also School: *6 AM and no later!*
School system: Welp better add two more standardised tests and more homework. Yep, that’s it. Go us
I'm Going To Swim to Korea because I'm broke oh but we have a GSA now and a couple poster that say suicide is bad so clearly we’re doing our best
School system: oh kids are killing themselves because of stress? Alright, let’s make them more stressed by telling them about it and literally not changing else because what could be wrong with a school that has to follow all the standards of the industrial era?
@@enolp It's because the standards of the industrial era still apply. Working in a office is the same as working in a factory. That's why school trains children to learn to follow commands instead of thinking for themselves. Because most of these people will be employed by someone else, who can do all the decision making for them.
Don't try to change school. Use school to become who you want to be. Knowing how school works helps you break the mould.
Enolp exactly,
School System: Kids are way too stressed out?
Let's add 5 more standards talking about it that the health teachers have to teach in one semester, only 45 minutes classes every other day, then we'll put 10 tests for the 5 new standards because they are unprepared for the real world. I'm sure that even though the teachers can barely teach all the original information in a semester that they will just be able to adjust and speed up the pace of their class.
I am autistic and I never did any homework but got 10's (Here in Finland it's 4-10 and A in America) in tests. It was very important me to show up in class so I could concertrate and learn. How many teens have missed homework because in home there is a lot more to do and to distract you?
Ah finally. Something that doesn’t just straight up blaming the teens themselves! Thank you!
S
It’s weird that boomers say that millennials and Gen Z are stubborn. Yet, they say things like, “You people have gotten lazier, back in my day.....” or “you don’t know hard work”, then they blame the teens themselves, even under certain circumstances.
@@Ethan-en2ij they are living off their parents glory because their parents fought in the war. Lots of boomers are so entitled because they grew up living in the glory of their parents and how they fought and won the war.
Im 19.
I had to travel to school so I woke up at 6 on avg. Id get 0-7 hours of sleep, on avg. 5.30 hrs.
No wonder I look like im 35.
The feeling of years of sleep deprivation is literally something that stays and doesnt fully go away, cannot quite explain.
As a teen watching this when I’m stuck in my house because of the quarantine, i am loving the extra sleep. I feel so good and I’ve been less depressed and anxious
me: *states all important points in this video*
mom: j u s t g o t o b e d e a r l i e r
Victoria yeah some people can force themselves to sleep but the other 90% of us have to wait until we are tired
@Teagan Truttmann I know what you mean about being awake at night and sleeping in the middle of the day. I am a natural night owl, I could work the night shift better than go to school tbh. And I think that would be better too. I can't just "go to sleep earlier" like everyone in my family says. I can only sleep when I am tired. Just laying in the dark with my eyes closed will do nothing. The system is broken, and I wonder if it will ever be fixed.
In order to get your required ten hours of sleep you'd need to go to bed at 7:00pm, which means you need to arrange with your mother that she cook dinner as soon as you get home. Hope you're able to do homework at school/on the bus and that you're happy to only live life at school, lol.
Mood, I already have schoolwork and I want to have some time to have breaks without going to bed at 11:25
Well, it's true. You need to be disciplined and get into your bed and close your eyes at the same time every day, no exceptions. It doesn't matter if you're not tired when getting into bed, your body will quickly learn that it's time to sleep at (10pm?) and wake up at (7am?). Consistency with your sleep schedule is the key!
"We need to toughen them up for the real world!"
Because waking your kids up at 6:00 AM to get them to school at 7:30 will prepare them to wake up at 7:30 to get to work at 9:00.
More like, "we need to make them have a highly dangerous lack of sleep because teens are just lazy and ungrateful adults and they certainly don't have a mental health to be taken care of"
I have to be at school at 6:50
@@songbird2614 why?
@@user-xh7bx4je1v cuz that's when it starts?
I have to wake up at 5:30 because I have to catch the bus at 6 :10
Man, in Scotland we start school at 8:45 Or 9AM. I thought that was early, I feel bad for American teens!
Wow, that's amazing! You're so lucky!
Although, American kids aren't the only ones that have to wake up that early. :P
@@MayPastel waking up earlier doesn't change anything if u adapt to that. I don't want to go in and assume alot but if u gotta wake up 2hrs earlier for school, sleep 2 hrs earlier. It should work bc school is still 6 hrs so u finish at an earlier time than if u had school at 9am
@@tmuto5119 we cant sleep if were not tired. And even then, I'm exhausted right now but I cant sleep. It has been like this as long as i can remeber. Dont assume that anyone can just force themselves to go to sleep.
@@tav7312 I learnt to at least get better at that through just closing my eyes and getting in bed at that time and it works. Thats why I said adapt it's not easy. I'm not tired when I have to sleep but I try to cope with it
@@tmuto5119 its literally almost 4 in the morning and ive been trying to sleep for hours its not that easy especially for people with anxiety about going to sleep.
Schools: it's their damn phones and hoodies
My mom: „Just get to bed earlier“
BUT IM NOT TIRED. I LITERALLY CANT.
iakah Drake i have to take melatonin to fall asleep, it helps but i wake up even more tired
Oh my god I’m so sick of my parents telling me that. Any adults really. Like, did they not have that problem when they were our age (which I highly doubt) or do they just choose to ignore it?
If you can't it's because you're not giving the body what it evolved to need for sleep. #1 If you live in a wintery/cloudy climate invest in sunrise alarm clocks that will fill your room with light in the morning. #2 install a program called flux on your computer which will eliminate blue-light from the screen after a certain hour. #3 Drink some water when you wake up. Hydration helps with alertness. #4 no eating anything for at least 2.5 hrs before bedtime. These things will help fix it.
I know my mom tells me to sleep at 9 its way to early to sleep for someone like me
My dad always says me to go to bed at 12a.m or so. In such moments I realize that I need to do about 2-3 more hours of homework(
mom can you please stop lecturing everyone about how i am TIRED
Lmao this is wonderful
@@lottejohnson250 same.
Me: **makes all the points she says in the video**
My grandpa: *i dON't bELIVe iN ThAt*
Same!!! I came looking for videos from professionals in the field hoping that i could convince my mom that, "yes, a lot of teenagers sleep in on the weekends because we are _SLEEP DEPRIVED_ during the week!!!" and wen i tried to talk to her she was just like "that's bullsh*t" and talked about how she woke up early even on weekends as a kid because she had chores and had to go dig out the potatoes on the farm, well SORRY MOM, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED WE LIVE IN THE SUBURBS, NOT ON A FARM
School: *starts at 9 am*
Me: *happily laughs in Dutch*
Hello :3 you’re so lucky😩
Yeah, but I still have to wake up at 6 am, so it's definitely not that much better
Too bad for me. School starts at 8 am in Romania.
I love your profile pic!!
Gracee Lathrop thank you!! 🥺❤️
it's ironic that im watching this at 3 am lmao
min yoonji
Yes
Same
im watching this at midnight lol
Deimos I'm watching at 4 am 😂
Me, a 16 year old: it's 2AM should I go to be?
*Sees this video*
Me: nah I'll watch a video about sleep instead of sleeping
Same but it’s 4:30 here
4:29 AM, this is fun!
Eyyyyyy
It’s 5:50 here. I’m dying.
@@yaddayadda7114 dude it is 12:16am over here and the first day of school is today
Tedtalk: get some sleep
Me: ok
Also me at 12:32 am: watches this
Princess Caitlin Designz 2am for me 🤣
Mood
*LAUGHS IN 4:00AM*
I’m 19, I was MISERABLE going to sleep at 9-11pm and waking up at 6. Now in college, I wake up at 8 and fall asleep at 11-12 and I feel so much better with the same amount of sleep if not less.
I crashed my car after i fell asleep at the wheel driving to school to get to my zero hour class at 6:00am. Now I have a caffeine addiction.
Sam Steele try green tea, less caffeine than coffee but still gives you enough kick.
Damn, that really sucks :( I hope you're okay now
Wow I feel lucky. I walked to elementary school,, my middle school bus stop is at 6:45 and when I go to high school I will walk less than a mile.
Stop using caffeine
@@pulyps20sf It's not that simple.
I'm a senior in high school this year. I feel like I'm coming out of a long war
Pfp checks out
Yea I just finished freshman year boarding school and it felt like I came of out Vietnam
We’ve got a veteran here boys, salute him
Bridget Elrian save me
PrettyMuch Everything *Salutes*, thank you for your service.
Me: mom this is what I mean-
My mom: it’s probably that damn phone of yours again
me: *gets 10 hours of sleep*
body: *constantly tired* "what sleep?"
ugh, literally. it’s the sleep deprivation after years, i think. i constantly try to sleep early, no later than 10-11. it’s so hard to get at least 8 hours (waking up at 6). it’s impossible. i’m always tired.
Honestly, I'll be fine as long as schools stop giving out so much homework. It's like my teachers think that we only have one class to do homework in. You can't believe how many all nighters I pulled just to do school work
Swear they act you don't got other classes to worry about
wait to u get to college :........(
@SuperSonicSpeeder lol i bet u're that one kid in class who didnt really care about school, who just like started cussing about how long the school day is after doing nothing 😂😂✌✌✌ (no offense, purely joking)
Same it’s bs but like Teachers aren’t Gunna do anything so I guess gotta deal wit my 3 hours of sleep and not literally not being able to think
@@julia-ex7im lol what kids have way more homework in high school than college
I’m homeschooling my child now. She’s 9 and I let her wake up as she pleases. Her behavior and learning has fast tracked in the 3mo we’ve been homeschooling. She’s no longer ADHD, ODD or learning disabled. 3mo after she was last tested and was retested....no evidence of ANY of this! School district was stunned. All boiled down to less stress and more sleep. She was spending until midnight on homework because she wasn’t understanding. Then she’d wake up early to go over it again. She had no time to be Emma. 3mo and I have a totally different kid.
I am so happy for Emma! Thank you for paying attention to your child's needs, you are a wonderful mother. I have decided that i will be homeschooling my future child. Or send them to a private alternative school, if I can afford it. I refuse to put my child through the misery I endured in the 12 years I spent in public school.
I know I'm late to this comment but I love you kristin.
congrats! so glad you did that for Emma! best of luck to you :)
Lack of socialization among homeschoolers is mostly a myth. Sure there's the occassional odd family that sees no one, but there's plenty of opportunities for homeschool students to socialize-- PE classes, science labs, art classes, hiking --just to name a few.
I still get 9 hours of sleep but I have adhd
i counted. i need 14 alarms to get up in the morning. the first one is at 4:20 so i can do the homework i was too tired to do. the last one is at 7:10 when i have 20 minutes to get ready for the bus.
the homework never gets done. i eat what’s available and fast. the teachers lecture us on our dropping grades. we go home and more work piles up. repeat.
Me: watching a video about how sleep is very important
Also me: watching this at 1:30 am on a school night
I just finished my homework💀
My parents made me go to bed at 10:00 and I tossed and turned until midnight. I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t out partying, I was just chilling in my bed. She’s right about the melanin release time
Melatonin*
lol melanin
My vampire-pale and basically nocturnal brain would like more melanin AND melatonin, thank you
Nightcore Subliminals I am also nocturnal
LmAo melanin
I swear when I put an alarm on it wakes up my whole family but not me.
I will hit my alarm that is on the other side my room. This still won't wake me up. But comes to the weekend with no alarm and I will wake up at 7am. Note I get up at 7 on school mornings.
Yes! And your family starts yelling at you
My mom asked me to turn off my alarm for that exact reason and I was like ''what if it actually wakes my up somtime''
I know me too
Yeah, I can’t wake up to my alarm anymore. I used to, but then it’s normal now because I don’t sleep long enough so I sleep through it.
"The average teenager's sleepiness sets in at around 11pm"
*Laughs in 12am bedtime*
Laughs in 1am
Laughs in 3/4 am
Laughs in no bedtime at all
Laughs in having not slept for 4 days straight
This woman: "schools are starting 7:30 am(...)"
Me: **Laughs, waking up at **5:00** to get into school at **6:30** **
jesus. that early?? that should literally be illegal.
@@monica-fd2qy yeah I have the same situation, it seriously sucks
Yes! She said schools should be starting no earlier than 8:30 am and I thought I got lucky finding a school that starts at 7:30 am.
I used to wake up at 5:30 am on middle school to get to school around 6:15 and wait until the classes started at 7.
Jesus christ, that's awful.
My school "starts" at 8:30 but you get detention if you arrive any later than 8:20. It's cause I'm in britain, I assume. Pretty decent if you ask me.
SAME HERE. SAME. WAKE UP AT 5 TO GO TO SCHOOL AND ARRIVING AT SCHOOL AT 6:30
Surprisingly, I get so much more sleep now in college than I did in high school, and it's definitely because I was able to choose a schedule with later start times. I have the best circadian rhythm now, I usually don't even need an alarm. Now I can pay attention and be engaged in class because I'm not running on three hours of sleep.
That's how I was too! When I was a freshman in college my classes all started at 10/10:30 am at the earliest and it was PERFECT for me. I'd sleep until 9, go to classes, and be SO much more alert/awake for them. Going to a class at 7 or 8 in the morning was just too early for me! I'd be exhausted during those classes and not be able to learn! Some of us learn better later in the day.
i wasn't quite so lucky as a freshman, because I did have classes where the only section left when I registered or that fit with the rest of my schedule was a 7:30. Those days sucked, but the other days, not so much. After I became a junior it slowly started becoming easier for me to wake up early. Now that I'm a senior, I can easily fall asleep earlier, and wake up earlier. It is pretty easy to feel how your biological clock shifts. My 730 classes are a bit early for my internal clock, but I only wake up about an hour earlier than I naturally do on the weekends, so the adjustment isn't as extreme as getting less than 5 hours of sleep.
Jess Wakka That's the best. Something to look forward to in college at least.
must be nice
To be honest, two years into college now, and this is still my favorite part about college.
Teacher: assigns a project worth half of my grade, a research essay, 20 pages of worksheets, and 3 books by tomorrow.
Me: “Oh wow that’s a lot.”
Teacher: *”YoU sHoULdN’t HaVe HoMeWorK iF yOU uSe YoUr TiMe WiSeLy.”*
My school does class work and then at the end of class (gives us 5 minutes) tells us HOMEWORK so that we have to take work home.
Everyone in class: **crazed cackling**
Student: Do we have homework?
Teacher: To tell you the truth, I don’t believe in homework
The entire class: Really? What was that essay, 20 questions and a book report you just assigned?!
Teacher: Well you’re capable of getting it done
🙄 I’m done with their excuses for the amount of homework they give us
And then there’s homework that doesn’t let me sleep until 1, with all The extracurriculars I also want to keep up
forget about homework, my parents make me stay in school for 2 hours after everybody else leaves
i've seen the school librarian more than i've seen my bed
Even starting at 8:30 would help much. Like she said, getting up a teenager at 6 is the same as getting a normal adult up at 4. Getting a teen up at 7 would still be like getting an adult up at 5. A good portion of people I know don't go to bed until midnight at the earliest. That's still only 7 hours of sleep, and like she said 8 hours is the bare minimum.
A to Rhombus I have to get up at 5 to 5:30 every day, and I get about 5 hours every night.
I have to wake up at 5:40
I set alarms for 5:30, 5:45, and 6:00 because it's always hard for me to get up in the mornings without laying awake in bed for a little while first. I get like 4 or 5 hours of sleep.
Not to mention I literally spend over 12 hours at the school every day.
!?! Why?
that awkward moment when you're a teenager watching this at 3 am......oops
ehehehehehehe
Same
Lmao
Paula Salazar Oml i love your profile pic
Or when you’re almost 23 ...
Unpleasant characteristics that we chalk up to being a teenager - moodiness, irritability, laziness, depression - could be a product of chronic sleep deprivation.
That hit me hard.
The fact that I’m watching this at 3:35am instead of sleeping is ironic
I'm doing a research essay for my AP lit class on why highschool is toxic for teens, and I'm 100% using this as a source
Did it go well? I hope you got a good grade and such
Maranara I am also curious lol
did someone grade it after 8 months
How did you do?
Posting here to get a response
Teens: give us more time to rest and less homework.
School: More homework, stress, and less sleep?
Teens: NO
school: alright then, whatever you say.
This school listens to its students??!! What kind of dream world is this??
@@kittycatrina1861 My school? Charter and average of 126 students. If something doesn't float your boat you only need to talk to maybe three staff members and you're good.
Nightcore Subliminals bruh I w i s h
My high school used to to start at 7:30 and get out at 2:30 now it starts at 8:30 and doesn’t release until 3:50. My point being I have no after school time to do anything I want to do with all the homework I’m getting.
The better point to her argument I would say is that we should shorten school all together. When I don’t have enough time to do what I want I stay up later. But if I had the time to do what I wanted and not have to worry about homework then I would go to sleep earlier. I feel really bad for the kids who have sports, and extra curriculum activities they have to complete and have to go to sleep by 10.
Nothing is gonna change from personal experience. I get up at 6:00 every morning just to go to my 8:30 high school. SHORTEN SCHOOL HOURS!!
Wendy Troxel: “Kids should sleep for 8-10 hours!”
Schools: “Did someone say something?”
Over 50% difference in suicides by a single hour change... if our administrators weren't idiots, we would probably have three students in our school who were alive now...
R/wowthanksimcured
That is so unfortunately true
@@bigchungus5964
r/ihavereddit
r/foundthemobileuser
@@saikinist -r/- N O
That got dark R E A L Q U I C K
My mom's friend's teenage son got seizures as a result of lack of sleep.
quaking I have literally epilepsy now due to me going to school having AP classes, being on varsity sports, active in my church. And babysitting. If I could go back and do it again it wasn’t worth it, but at the same time how was I supposed to know? I was 14 years old and everybody pressures you to do more and try more. Everybody wanted me to do more and when you say your tired they say “you’re young” But now that I’m on seizure medications, can’t get my drivers lisence, and have severe anxiety of having more seizures was it worth it? Is it still worth it for schools and parents to pressure teens to do more?
, dr. illif (may be miswriting it) showed on a tedTalk the 3-d rendering of brain activity at night during sleep & what happens to the accumulation of toxicity in the brain during inadequate sleep, which doesn't allow for the proper washing of it by the lymphatic system fluid, since the only time the brain allows this to take place is during sleep..
Stop going to the church. God will forgive.
Madison Christenson stop having ap I know so many people who are suffering do to this supposed high quality semesters. Classes that will help credit I take all advanced and it killed me so bad I left school and do homeschools till my mind is smart In some classes when It feels it has to. Listen the world is getting worse and If you want to be saved talk back to me I want to help you we can help each other. Now before you ask my age key just say I am below 16
Aahhh i get anxiety attacks and eye pains
Everything in this video was spot on. I moved to a new school district in my junior year and went from waking up at 6:30 to waking up at 5, I was taking all honors and AP classes, and had ungodly amounts of homework. On top of all that, I naturally tend to stay up late because I have the most energy at that time meaning that I would just start doing my homework around 7 and finally finish around 1. And when I finish my homework and go straight to bed I'm anxious and stressed for the next day's tests and assignments and can't fall asleep for another hour. Plus an hour bus ride every morning because of heavy traffic. Some days it didn't even feel like I was the one getting out of bed. I felt completely dead every single day. I'm so glad that there's someone who's not blindly blaming teens for being "lazy." Most of us are the complete opposite.
There's this teacher at my school that asks the students if they feel okay and need a call home, not in a rude way but seriously concerned. Sometimes he even just lets them sleep. Wish there were more teachers like him :/
I’m very lucky, in England we start school at 8:45 ish and I complain that I’m tired waking up at 7 am everyday, American teens you have my sympathies.
Yeah.... living in the US is rough.
@@hana1042 yeah... my problems hardly even matter.
You get to wake up at 7 am everyday? I have to be at school by that time. I wake up at 5.
Jessieboo xo - I have to wake up at 5:45 and leave by 6:20 to be at school by 7
@@Rose-qn2ed Same
It is shocking how high school swimmers survive the 6 AM practice-school day grind.
do you need to be a swimmer? is that your goal in life? get to studying and find out what you really want to do.
So you would risk a bad dive which could affect your body in horrendous ways to not sleep. Got it
Are you really spending your time ridiculing someone for exercising, and in multiple comments, too? I mean, if that's your goal in life... Be careful, though. Typing too much could affect your wrists in horrendous ways...
Right? I literally had to quit the team when I first joined because I was so sleep deprived that I was at an actual risk of fainting while training.
i have to be AT school at 4:45am for cheer so i wake up at 4, rip
It’s been 3 years since this has been uploaded and nothing has freaking changed. Smh.
I just graduated but I can tell you there were SO many depressed kids in my school. I highly think the lack of sleep has something to do with it. We get yelled at for napping in class, drinking caffeine, substance abuse, being "grumpy", lazy/tired but it's not even all of our own faults. We're expected to drive and have a job. When we wake up at 6 AM and sleep around 1 AM (late shift) that's barely enough to get through the next day. I wish jobs/schools were more tolerant.
I literally say “I’m tired.” Like 5 times a day.
Only 5
Just 5?
Then everyone’s like why are u tired? U haven’t done anything all day
A lot of people only ever say "im tired" when describing their mood and i think its a cop out. Everyone is tired, you big babies.
Besides, anyone who is content to use only one word to express their mood is either boring and unimaginative, or an actual psychopath.
Lieutenant Luxury or maybe they just are tired and don’t want to talk, sounds like you’re the psychopath
She left out an important statistic. The day after switching from daylight savings to standard time, the motor vehicle accident rate is seven percent lower.
Tru
I've never been able to get 8 full hours of sleep before in my life, who ever gets that much sleep, can I have your body?
Huge respect to this woman for bringing this to light!
I mean, im in zero hour and i get an average of about 4 hours a night, and im doin okay. *stands up and blacks out a lil* so okay so okay
Megs Donnelly me
But you could do better with more sleep ha
Wait. You get that too? I thought that was only me
lmao sometimes i get up from sitting down and completely fall without remembering how it happens and going numb for a lil bit.
yepp 4 hours a night is treating me well
I get 1-3 hours a night and bieng the insomniac that I am, I completely ignore my body's functions telling me stop sleep depriving myself. But I dont.
don’t ignore this. this is a problem sleep deprivation causes depression DEPRESSION. that means suicide. so things that aren’t going to help us with life like math,science,history are more important than our lives?
i know, right?!?!? why won't any schools start later like maybe 9 or 10am, it would make us all so much happier
when the sun comes up you should be up plain and simple if you can't figure that out then go to sleep earlier. If you a kid than your just a kid
how dare you say something like that
Hey, it's you again! Well, I gotta say, I do like what you say. Good thing that the sun doesn't come up until 830 during the winter... But also, I thought you didn't like it when kids got up early? Oh wait, that's just for swimming, obviously, so nevermind.
+Jim Slider
Did you watch the video? I can't go to sleep earlier when I can't fall asleep or need to finish homework.
kydn oof wish my mom actually listened to these kinds of videos instead of getting all her sleep facts off of Pinterest. She let me sleep in (because I was homeschooled) to when I would naturally get up. But once she got ahold of Pinterest and other social media... "Hey, it says here from someone I don't know and has no medical ethos, that if your kid sleeps until 9, they are more likely to have depression!" So guess who was forced to get up at 8 from then on?... And guess who got diagnosed with depression soon after? (Which mom still blamed on me sleeping too much) yeah.... It sucks.
Getting 8 hours sleeping its like getting C in report card
Me: F- And laughing
3:40 i feel so badass right now for passing all my classes and just functioning.
This! This whole talk. I can't tell you how many days I went to high school completely fogged up and miserable because I never got enough sleep. It didn't matter when I planned to go to bed, because my teachers gave us an inane amount of work to do (to be due the next day) and then I was expected to have a job, and we never got done on time, so I got 5 hours sleep tops. Then you're expected to be doing your best in school when really you can barely get food down your throat before running to a bus stop where the bus packs everyone in to a school where kids are "tired and wired" and easily agitated. Then the teachers would yell at you if you weren't paying attention. How could I pay attention when I was constantly sleep deprived? Also, what was the point of repeating the same lesson of American history four years in a row? The policy needs to change. Teenagers develop in a specific way and there needs to stop being an expectation that teens need to be adults immediately. That is an insane person thought.
Thank you
System has to change!!&insane amount of school HW!!