Sleep is the key to success in today's world. Is a certain amount of sleep necessary? Can different methods help people get enough sleep? As simple as these two questions may seem, the answers that could be given are endless. People don't always get the adequate amount of sleep their bodies need to function properly. There are many ways it can affect a life and not in a good way. Many people may think that a certain amount of sleep is necessary, but this is actually not the case. To change this bad habit there are many simple methods and small things that can be done to ensure sufficient sleep for families and individuals. Living beings cannot succeed without sleep. As growing adults, adolescents especially need sleep. “What's the point of trying to educate teenagers so early in the morning?” Maas asks. “You can give the most thought-provoking and interesting lecture to sleep-deprived children early in the morning or right after lunch, when they are at their sleepiest, and the overwhelming drive to sleep supersedes any possibility of alertness, cognition, memory, or understanding” (Carpenter ). Basically teachers feel helpless and don't even want to teach kids in this situation. As teachers they probably wonder how much that child slept last night, but would be truly horrified if they actually asked the student. Do children know the right amount their body needs? In studies conducted, school-age children, ages five to ten, need ten to eleven hours of sleep, while adolescents, ages eleven to seventeen, need eight to nine and a half hours of sleep ("How much are we really sleeping?"). This is important because most people don't get enough sleep and don't even know it. Even if you are...in the middle of the card......ren and sleep." Nation Sleep Foundation. Np, nd Web. May 7, 2014. "How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?" Sleep Foundation. National Sleep Foundation , n.d. Web. 7 May 2014. .Journal Sleep. 1Department of Biomedicine, 2Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Bergen, Norway, 10 November 2005. Web 2014. "7 Ways Parents can help their kids get enough sleep." PsyisCentral, nd Web 2014. .