Sleep Depravity :- A Child Tragedy?

Question your sleeping patterns with Garv Mohan Sood.

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We spend around 25 years of our life asleep, it’s something we all need but children today are not getting enough of it.

Sleep is an important way to recharge, rejuvenate and keep the body healthy. It has regenerative properties. Sleep deprivation leads to many problems, which adversely affect the child’s daily activities. Students become nocturnal, like owls and are awake until midnight or sometimes all night on social media, to finish homework, projects, or to study. Unfortunately, the next day the children go to school, sleepy, exhausted, unmotivated, and unfocused. Lack of sleep causes irritability, increased stress, difficulty in learning, anxiety and depression.Teenagers fail to understand that sleep is crucial and mandatory for high school students to actively participate in class. As a result of lack of sleep, teenagers usually usemultiple alarms to wake up in the morning. Sleep deprivation in children leads to inability to concentrate, understand and makes them vulnerably to health problems in the long term like diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

Sufficient sleep is necessary for students. Students should try to sleep early and must spend less time on social media and diligently work on homework or projects earlier. Advertisements about the importance of sleep should be shown on television to increase awareness among children.

To conclude, a well-rested child will be healthy, energetic, and positive. He will have a good relationship with his family and peers.

Quoting Dalai Lama “Sleep is the best meditation”.

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Written By Garv Mohan Sood