A new study has found that later school times can help prevent sleep deprivation in parents. The school year is a busy time for parents everywhere. It can be a challenge to get children up and ready for school, making sure they have breakfast and finish their homework. Even the night before, mom is up making lunches and making sure everything is ready for the next day. Adding that to everything else that a mom or dad has on their plate, it can be very exhausting. This means that parents don’t often get enough sleep, but studies are being done to see what can help these tired parents.Studies have already been done to see how a later school start time can help a child’s sleep and attention, but it may help mom too. According to Medical Xpress, a new study was done that showed that later school start times can help prevent sleep deprivation for middle and high school students, and for their parents.The study was done by researchers at National Jewish Health and it can be read in full here. It found that parents of adolescents got more sleep when school started just one hour later. They were able to sleep in a bit more, and not be as rushed in the morning.What was interesting was that the later school start times did not have an impact on parents of elementary school children. This is the first time that researchers have looked at the sleep outcomes for parents when it comes to delaying start times of school. Researchers stated that they know that students are sleep deprived and that a later school time can benefit them, but students don’t just live on their own. They live as part of a family unit, and it continues to be important to look at how the whole family works and what can benefit every member.[EMBED_TWITTER]https://twitter.com/AASMorg/status/1478834951286046720[/EMBED_TWITTER]They found that parents of middle school and high school students were not adjusting their bedtime at night since they knew they had to be up later. They were still going to bed at the same time but were able to sleep in a bit later, and this is what allowed them to get more sleep at night. When they did this with parents of elementary school-aged children, they found that parents were more inclined to stay up a bit later at night, and this could be why they did not see such a strong change in sleep deprivation.Sources: Medical Xpress, Science Direct