Generation Sleepless by Heather Turgeon & Julie Wright - Paperback Parenting Guide to Teen Sleep Deprivation - Foreword by Daniel J. Siegel

Details Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9781914484384 Publisher: Scribe UK Age Range: Parenting Guide (for parents of tweens/teens) Overview Generation Sleepless is a science-backed parenting guide that tackles one of the most overlooked crises in adolescent health: chronic sleep deprivation. Written by therapists Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright, authors of the acclaimed The Happy Sleeper, this paperback combines the latest sleep research with practical, compassionate strategies. It shows parents how screens, packed schedules, and early school starts are quietly stealing hours of rest from teenagers, and offers a clear, respectful path to help families rebuild healthy sleep habits together, restoring calmer evenings and more focused, resilient teens. About the Book Drawing on years of clinical experience and up-to-date scientific research, Turgeon and Wright reveal that today's teenagers are among the most sleep-deprived generations in history. At exactly the developmental stage when adolescents need more sleep, biology, technology, and modern life conspire to give them far less. Generation Sleepless explains how this hidden sleep debt fuels anxiety, low mood, poor concentration, and long-term stress, and why simply telling teens to "go to bed earlier" rarely works. Instead, the authors offer a family-centred approach: building agreements around screens and bedtimes, understanding shifting teen body clocks, and creating home environments that support rest rather than undermine it. Real-life scenarios and relatable teen voices sit alongside evidence-based tools, making the advice easy to apply without nagging or conflict. With a foreword from renowned psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, the book bridges cutting-edge neuroscience and everyday parenting reality, helping families turn nightly battles into calm, cooperative routines that support both sleep and connection. Science-based strategies from two respected family therapists Practical tools to reduce teen anxi