Stay Late Wake Up Late..

Lately, I frequently sleep late. It’s about above 12 or the earliest one is about 11.30. I know, perhaps it considers as a normal time for people who have bunch of activities but the impact is I wake up late.  Normally I have to wake up at least 5.30 in the morning but since I go to bed late, I awake at 6 in the morning or even more.  It’s honestly bothering me. I always slept in the bus or the worst thing is sleepy when I am on duty. Trying not to sleep late, setting the timer earlier and my mom’s yelled didn’t disturb me from my bed. Tough job huh!  Then I browsed any website who talked about this bad habit. I did find it. What I found was didn’t solve anything of it but ensured me there is nothing wrong about it. Check it out..

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If you find that you have to shout your teenager out of sleep in the morning, don’t be so rude! There is a biological reason why your teen might want that extra hour in bed.

If your teenage son or daughter is late for the school bus again, don’t yell at them from the kitchen or complain all day long. Us teenagers’ bodies are built completely differently to that of adults so we have a biological reason as to why we sleep late and wake up late.

There is a certain ‘darkness hormone’ called melatonin that induce sleep in all human beings. As a person beings to grow older, this melatonin’s levels are reduced which is why you might find that old age people may wake up a lot earlier than you’d imagine. This melatonin is like a sleep inducing hormone that releases itself normally at night times. This helps us go to sleep. For any adult, this hormone releases itself at about 10 pm. Unfortunately, for your poor teen, it isn’t so.

Teenagers only release this hormone at about 1 pm at night. This means that even if they try to go to bed, they don’t feel like sleeping until quite late. This then has a knock on effect when they have to wake up in the morning. Think of it as an internal clock. Teenagers’ clocks are set to release melatonin much late but what happens is in the morning, when it’s time to get ready for school, the teenagers’ internal clocks still feel it is night time which is why they struggle to wake up.

Sleep is good, you know, so make sure you don’t lose any sleep over your teenager losing a lot of sleep.

http://healthmad.com/children/why-do-teens-sleep-and-wake-up-late/#ixzz1DwDeVUsN

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Well ok, I’m not a teen or kid anymore. But I think my melatonin is still high.. ^ ^