Bed Times

I figured that since many of you expressed an interest in having bad times for your teenagers if you become parents someday that it would be beneficial for you to know what you're going up against. You'd be surprised at how little parents know or want to know about their teenagers' sleeping behaviors. 12% of the teenagers I surveyed had bed times while 62% of the parents I surveyed said they enforced bed times. Somewhere along the way 50% was lost. When I asked parents what time their teenagers went to bed not a single answer was after 11 pm, and yet 42% of the answers teenagers gave were over 11 pm. Once again nearly half of these teenagers are lost.  The discrepancies show how difficult it is to actually enforce a bed time.
The studies I found showed that parental influence with bed times is positive in helping teenagers get more sleep and I came to the same conclusion with my own study, but it's difficult. In my study, teenagers with bed times had more difficult times falling asleep and waking, and they fell asleep on average an hour after their bed time.
My research certainly isn't the end all to sleep research, but I do believe that there is a general discrepancy between how much sleep teenagers get versus how much parents think they get which accounts for a general lack of parental influence on sleep.
By my percentages, there's a 50/50 chance your kids will not be on the same page as you with their sleeping habits. It seems to me, that being aware of how much sleep your teenagers are getting is most important in deciding whether they need a bed time or not.
I know my mom and sister both filled out the survey, and their numbers were certainly off, and I know they're even more off with my youngest sister. It might be easy to say you'll have bed times for you kids, but it won't be easy to enforce it.

Have a very nice summer everyone!