Hot take: Letting my adolescent skip a strict bedtime routine actually stabilized our household's sleep chaos.

My school district moved high school start times to 8:30 am after one of these studies came out. The entire sports schedule had to be redone because of afternoon practices, and parents lost their minds over the bus routes. We're literally given the science that says teens are wired to stay up later, and then we still act shocked when a 16-year-old isn't chipper at 7 am. It feels like we read the report, said "cool story," and then went right back to making them function on a schedule meant for 50-year-olds.