Sleepy teens: A public health epidemic | Wendy Troxel | TEDxManhattanBeach
Sleep deprivation - What most parents, teachers, and school administrators think of as just part of being a teenager, Rand Corporation sleep scientist Wendy ...
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Translator: Joanna Pietrulewicz Reviewer: Krystian Aparta It's six o'clock in the morning, pitch black outside. My 14-year-old son is fast asleep in his bed, sleeping the reckless, deep sleep of a teenager. I flip on the light and physically shake the poor boy awake, because I know that, like ripping off a Band-Aid, it's better to get it over with quickly. (Laughter) I have a friend who yells "Fire!" just to rouse her sleeping teen. And another who got so fed up that she had to dump cold water on her son's head just to get him out of bed. Sound brutal ... but perhaps familiar? Every morning I ask myself, "How can I -- knowing what I know and doing what I do for a living -- be doing this to my own son?" You see, I'm a sleep researcher. (L...
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Translator: Joanna Pietrulewicz Reviewer: Krystian Aparta It's six o'clock in the morning, pitch black outside. My 14-year-old son is fast asleep in his bed, sleeping the reckless, deep sleep of a teenager. I flip on the light and physically shake the poor boy awake, because I know that, like ripping off a Band-Aid, it's better to get it over with quickly. (Laughter) I have a friend who yells "Fire!" just to rouse her sleeping teen. And another who got so fed up that she had to dump cold water on her son's head just to get him out of bed. Sound brutal ... but perhaps familiar? Every morning I ask myself, "How can I -- knowing what I know and doing what I do for a living -- be doing this to my own son?" You see, I'm a sleep researcher. (L...
