Rather, they focus on alcohol abuse and what they see as larger issues. It has been proven that both the quantity and quality of sleep are associated with a college student’s mental health and academic achievement. Total sleep deprivation can also cause problems with athletics, time management, and self-regulation. Studies have found that approximately twenty percent of college students suffer from sleeping disorders like insomnia, which cause sleep deprivation, along with experiencing irritability, anxiety, and even weight gain (sleepdeprivation.com). Although many students claim they can manage with only a few hours of sleep, it has been proven that there are many detrimental effects of missing out on something many overlook as a minor daily activity.
Even more so, College students suffer more than anyone with odd hours and periodic naps during the day. In essence, Sleep deprivation is the simple lack of the required amount of sleep in order to fully function the following day. This lack has to be caused by something, but what? II. What aids in the accumulation of Sleep debt (Sleep Deprivation).
Kids start to watch television shows at very young age and try to interrupt what they see on T.V. in to the real life. Now day’s kids watch more time watching television they spend in school learning about academic stuff or being involved in physical activities. Most of the kids start to build their lives in a fantasy world away from reality and they see violence as a way to solve their problems and the only answer. While every child is different and they can interrupt the media violence differently but at some point it can catch up to them.
However, some children don’t get enough exercise because they watch a lot of TV and it’s hard for full time employed parents to focus on their children’s physical activities. Therefore, their children can end up very unhealthy and obese. Obese means being overweight due to the lack of exercise. Children experience may activities during recess. For example, there was a group of children playing hide and seek; others were taking turns on the slide.
The average American child watches TV, plays video games in front of a TV and also staring in a computer screen a good part of the day. As long as kids are safe inside the house they are not encourage to go out and play and exercise. The typical American parent is too busy working and being “lazy” to plan meals and family time. Even on TV commercials the whole family is either watching TV or using the tablet, phone or computer, what type of family time is that? Parents usually seek the easier route by picking up dinners which are super high in carbs and sodium, or rent movies to pacify the kids after school.
Raise the driving age Do you know that statistics show that car wrecks are the top killer of teenagers? The mininum driving age should be raised to 17 everywhere because too many teens are killed in car accidents, they are not responsble, and they abuse their driving privileges. Too many teens are killed in car accidents. Young teenagers are always pileing their friends in the car with them. The risk of a teen getting into a wreck increases by 44 percent with one teenage passenger and quadruples with 3 or more passengers.
Sleepwalking Introduction Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, is a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep.It is a parasomnia. A parasomnia refers to all the abnormal things that can happen to people when they sleep. In childhood, sleepwalking has prevalence up to 17%, peaking between 8 and 12 years of age, with a strong genetic factor in 65% of cases.At least 20% of the children will experience sleepwalking at least once in their life. Eventually the children will outgrow it in their teens, or sometimes will still persist into adult life. In other cases, adults will sleepwalk too due to certain factors which will be discussed later.
Back to Berkeley: High School Students Struggle With Stress, Depression By ELIZABETH HOPPERSpecial to the Planet Friday August 26, 2005 Bookmark and Share Most adults know that being a high school student isn’t easy. However, many would be surprised to learn that the vast majority of teenagers are becoming depressed and losing sleep over problems that are much less superficial than fashion or the high scho ol social scene. Bay Area psychologist Dr. Anita Barrows, who has 25 years of experience counseling children and adolescents, estimates that 60 to 70 percent of teenagers are affected negatively by stress. According to psychologists, stress can have a variety of effects on teenagers. Although the most common effects of stress are insomnia, stomachaches, headaches, anxiety, and irritability, stress can also be a major factor in depression and eating disorders.
The population-based surveys were carried out by the Federal University of Sao Paulo (or UNIFESP) (Pires et al., 2007). The results showed a significant increase with problems falling asleep, staying asleep, waking and not being able to go back to sleep, between 1987 and 1995 (Pires et al., 2007). Since the gross national product per capita in Sao Paulo declined during these years and unemployment rose, the study indicates that one could speculate that socio-economic factors contributed to these sleep problems (Pires et al., 2007). The article even states that the sleep profile results were very common, and had a profile very much in common with what can be observed here in America, along with Europe and Asia (Pires et al., 2007). In conclusion, my personal sleep patterns are presently affected by my socio-economic environment, biology, and culture.
Almost every 90 seconds, a person is injured due to a drunk driver. People under the age of the legal drinking age of 21 are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal crash as the people over the legal drinking age. As these teens are dying from these crashes, teens and mothers of teens are getting involved in trying to prevent these crashes. Teens Against Drunk Driving and Mothers Against Drunk Driving are just two of the many organizations that are making families more aware of this issue and are working to solve the problem of teens drinking and driving. Citations http://dui.findlaw.com/dui-laws-resources/underage-dui-zero-tolerance-laws.html?DCMP=ADC-DUI_DrunkDriving-Teenage&HBX_PK=drunk+driving+teens http://www.madd.org/ http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkingandDriving.html http://www.learn-about-alcoholism.com/statistics-teenage-drunk-driving.html