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If you have a teenager who suddenly seems capable of staying awake long after the rest of the house is winding down and falling asleep, you've probably seen this firsthand. They're not simply choosing a later bedtime (at least not always). Their internal clock is changing too. That becomes a problem when a teenager whose body isn't ready for sleep particularly early needs to be awake at 6:00am or 6:30am to get ready for school. There are really only so many places those extra hours of sleep can come from. You can tell a teenager to go to bed earlier. You can put the phone away. You can have a good wind-down routine. All of those things may be useful. But we can't completely override biology with a bedtime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b7dd93342f14b4e9ad7d7/1788143933496-G8PQO9VTYORU7JIHTA16/unsplash-image-GFKPATimbvM.jpg Blog - If School Started Later, Would Teenagers Just Stay Up Later? So what changes when teenagers get more sleep? The most obvious thing is exactly what you'd expect. They're less sleepy. We talk a lot about children's sleep in terms of health, development, learning and behavior. But one of the clearest signs that a child simply isn't sleeping enough is excessive daytime sleepiness. They're struggling to get out of bed. They're falling asleep in the car. They're relying heavily on caffeine. They're fighting to stay awake in class. They're sleeping dramatically later whenever they're finally given the opportunity. Sometimes the explanation isn't particularly complicated. They're tired because they're not getting enough sleep. Research on later school starts has also found associations with better mood and some improvements in attendance and tardiness. Some individual studies have found academic benefits, although the research on grades and test scores is more mixed. Parents often ask me about the impact of later school start times on grades. I try to answer as calmly as I can, but I want to yell: We don't need to promise that starting school later will turn every teenager into a straight-A student to make a compelling case for adequate sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b7dd93342f14b4e9ad7d7/1788144103955-T7STL9SUVW9D5W6SQEJO/unsplash-image-ei9OkVw-4O8.jpg Blog - If School Started Later, Would Teenagers Just Stay Up Later? - Is there actually enough room in your child's day for sleep? I would literally work backward. What time does your child need to wake up? Not what time does school start. What time do they actually need to be awake? If the bus comes at 7:05am, maybe they're up at 6:15am. If they drive themselves, maybe it's 6:45am. Then look at how much sleep your child needs and what time they would realistically need to be asleep to get it. This can be surprisingly illuminating. Sometimes the problem isn't that a teenager refuses to sleep, it's that the math doesn't work. School ends at 3:00pm. Practice until 6:00pm. Home. Shower. Dinner. Homework. Maybe there's an instrument, a club, a job, friends, family time or just a little time to sit on the couch and exist. Suddenly we're asking a teenager to be asleep at 9:30pm so they can get enough sleep before a 6:00 a.m. alarm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b7dd93342f14b4e9ad7d7/1778649102503-N29YFRHMLQIFUJRABGNQ/IMG_8112.jpeg Blog - If School Started Later, Would Teenagers Just Stay Up Later? - Struggling with your child’s sleep? You don’t have to face it alone. 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We brought the things that made bedtime feel familiar: travel cribs, two SlumberPods, two Nanits, the same crib sheets they slept on during previous vacations, a couple of favorite stuffed animals, and a handful of books my son loves. Looking back, there definitely wasn't one magical item for them. (but as parents, we would probably equate the nanits and slumberpods to magic) For the kids, it was the combination of familiar things that mattered. Bath. Pajamas. Books. Songs (and for my son...lots and lots of songs). The same goodnight hugs. The same bedtime phrases. By the third or fourth night, I remember thinking, "This feels surprisingly normal." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b7dd93342f14b4e9ad7d7/997ac7a1-1f9c-4c8f-a92d-d914681d68ac/Screenshot+2026-08-13+at+9.22.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - What 8 Weeks in London Reminded Me About Children's Sleep - Make it stand out As for the actual travel and eight weeks away, there were definitely some things that went really well and others we had to work through. Our flight left San Francisco around 1:00 p.m., which worked out pretty well for us. My son usually naps around 1:30, so he eventually took a very late "nap" on the plane that happened to line up fairly well with nighttime in London. When we landed the next morning, we got outside. A lot. Thankfully, London was in the middle of a heatwave, so finding daylight wasn't exactly difficult - in fact it was impossible to avoid. We walked, explored, stayed active and spent as much of that first day outside as we could. Our son was tired. We let him take a slightly longer nap that afternoon and then got right back to his usual schedule. There were some middle-of-the-night wake-ups during those first few days. Sometimes he wanted one of us to come in and sit with him for a few minutes. I think he mostly wanted reassurance that we were still there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b7dd93342f14b4e9ad7d7/99b0809f-d78c-4343-bc1b-9a4b96fb6ce1/Screenshot+2026-08-13+at+9.25.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - What 8 Weeks in London Reminded Me About Children's Sleep - After eight weeks, I probably came away believing even more strongly in something very unexciting: practice the boring stuff at home. Use the travel crib before the big trip. Let your baby nap somewhere other than the nursery occasionally. Use the portable white noise machine during a stroller nap. If you know you'll use a SlumberPod when you travel, let it become familiar before you're dealing with jet lag in another country. Have a bedtime routine you can do almost anywhere without bringing half your house with you. And then keep doing it. That's really what helped us in London. We still dealt with jet lag. My son still woke up at night. He still protested bedtime. The 4:45 a.m. sunrise was very real. But none of those things felt like we needed to start over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/653b7dd93342f14b4e9ad7d7/1778649102503-N29YFRHMLQIFUJRABGNQ/IMG_8112.jpeg Blog - What 8 Weeks in London Reminded Me About Children's Sleep - Struggling with newborn sleep? You don’t have to face it alone. 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