Eric Scheske's eldest is 12. This information comes at just the right time. Whether we believe anything researchers tell us, that's another matter, but at least this research "rings true":
Biological changes at puberty make it difficult for adolescents to get the nine to 10 hours of sleep their bodies require, making them moody, lethargic and less alert, according to research published yesterday.
Teenagers who refuse to emerge from beneath their duvets until after midday at weekends are neither lazy nor anti-social - they are repaying their accumulated "sleep debt."
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