The Sleep-Deprived Teen offers information on

• Making sleep friendly-changes at home and at school
• Teen sleep misconceptions (no, they can’t just go to bed earlier!)
• Sleep and teen athletes
• Drowsy driving
• The sleep/mental-health connection
• Gender differences in sleep/special considerations for girls
• Why sleep is even more important if your teen is LGBTQ+
• Why sleep is a social justice issue
• Sleep and ADHD

Lisa L. Lewis, MS, is a freelance journalist who covers the intersection of parenting, public health, and education. She played a key role in California’s new healthy school start times law, the first of its kind in the nation. Lewis is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and Your Teen, among others. She’s a parent to two teens, who inspire much of what she writes about—everything from concussions and heat stroke to school lockdowns to teenage sleep.