Generation Sleepless: why teenagers aren't sleeping enough, and how we can help them

The authors of "The Happy Sleeper" uncover the greatest threat to teenagers' physical and mental health: sleep deprivation. In "Generation Sleepless," they guide families in building healthy habits around sleep, such as establishing family agreements, altering practices, regaining equilibrium, and remaking bedtime routines. This is a wake-up call for parents to start a family conversation about sleep and regain connection with their tweens and teens.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 14 April 2022
Publisher: Scribe Publications

If you could shield your child from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, while also fostering a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their lives, wouldn't you? In this book, the authors of The Happy Sleeper, the classic book on helping babies and young children develop healthy sleep habits, uncover one of the greatest threats to our teenagers' physical and mental health: sleep deprivation. Caught in a perfect storm of omnipresent screens, academic overload, and unnecessarily early school-start times, our children are operating in a constant state of sleep debt while struggling to meet the demands of adolescence.

In this essential book, Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright draw on the latest scientific research to reveal that today's teenagers are, in fact, the most sleep-deprived population in human history. In fact, at a critical phase of development, many teens need more sleep than their younger siblings but are getting drastically less.

Generation Sleepless guides families in building healthy habits around sleep by:

• Establishing family agreements around sleep habits.
• Altering family practices around phones, social media, and screen time.
• Regaining overall equilibrium in the home.
• Remaking bedtime routines.

Packed with years of research and in-depth reporting, Generation Sleepless is a wake-up call for parents that equips them with the right tools to start a family conversation about sleep and to ultimately regain connection with their tweens and teens.

Weight: 306g
Dimension: 135 x 209 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914484384