1. SLEEP

2. Sleeping late as a social norm - well maybe not a norm
but accepted.
But is the ability to sleep late actually contributing to the
growing number of sleep deprived school and college
aged people? We certainly think it is.
Knowing that we have a few extra hours of sleep available
to us in the morning lets us burn the candle later into the
night. Coupled with technology that keeps us entertained
and connected, the hours gained in the morning are soon
lost and out numbered by additional awake time into the
night. Even when we get the balance right, how we can
control the environment around us from ruining this
sleep payback?

3. Approaches to reducing this issue
• Eliminate
• Educate
• Facilitate

4. Eliminate
• If we eliminate the reasons to stay up we
believe that we will eliminate the need to
sleep late the next morning.
• We can do this nicely or a little more radical

6. Educate
• If we educate teenagers about the harm of
burning the candles at both ends we may be
able to prevent some from suffering
• Again we can do this nicely or a little more
radical

8. Facilitate
• Lets just concede it may be too hard to change
this, so lets pass on a few ideas to allow
teenagers to get those extra hours of sleep in
the morning undisturbed.
• Lets help them create an environment suitable
for this.