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 * Annual sleep-related accidents in transportation alone claim over 5,000 lives, cause hundreds of thousands of injuries
 * An individual may not feel sleepy at one time of day, but may experience the sudden onset of completely disabling drowsiness when all stimulating influences are withdrawn (which explains many of our sleep-related accidents).
 * Napping can immediately reduce dangerous drowsiness.
 * Sometimes we simply ignore the sleep that we need, but at other times our body is incapable of getting our required hours of sleep per night (due to illness, insomnia, etc.)
 * Sleep deprivation in children has long been overlooked as a key contributor to kids' physical and behavioral problems.
 * Lack of sleep can have a negative effect on children's performance in school, on the playground, in extracurricular activities, and in social relationships."
 * Syptoms: Tiredness, Difficulties with focused attention, Irritability,Easy Frustration, Difficulty controlling impulses, Difficulty controlling emotions, Less physical coordination, Increased behavioral ups and downs.
 * Your child's body, brain and emotions are all affected when they are sleep deprived.
 * Teen sleep deprivation is on the rise in our society. The overwhelming amount of extra activities that our children are involved in, coupled with the early start of school, has created a society of sleepy teenagers.
 * A teenager requires more sleep than during his or her preteen years. However, studies show that adolescents actually obtain much less sleep than they did during those preteen years.
 * Studies have recently shown that the internal, biologic sleep-timing mechanism is reset along with the other changes of puberty. Their bodies signal them to go to sleep at a later hour and also to sleep later in the morning.
 * often gaining some catch-up sleep by "sleeping in" on the weekends. Others, however, cannot play the game of catch up, and can suffer from severe sleep deprivation.
 * Sleep studies have found that hibitual short sleepers are at risk of increased morbidity and mortality.
 * **Sleep deprivation statistics** show that 40 percent of Americans (about 100 million) are sleep deprived.
 * **Sleep Deprivation studies** have shown that students who get A's and B's get an average of a total of 35 minutes more sleep per night than those that get D's and F's. And, their sleep is consistent--meaning that they go to bed at the same time during the week as they do on weekends.