Consistently getting quality sleep will improve your student’s mental, emotional, and physical performance. It improves their immune system, balances hormones, boosts metabolism, and improves brain function.

The main reason sleep is so important for a student’s success in school is because this is the time when their brain is “cleaning” itself.

Just like every other cell in our body, our brain cells are eating, reproducing, and making waste products. When we are awake, our brain is super active with learning, thinking, and controlling our entire body – and this creates a lot of “brain garbage!”

During sleep, our body uses this time to remove all that waste and allows us to repeat the learning processes day after day. It’s like removing all the unneeded files from your computer, so you have storage for more important files.

If your student is not getting enough quality sleep then all this “brain garbage” stays backed up in their brain, reducing cognitive performance and learning potential.

Social wellness refers to the connection and relationship we have and how we interact with others. Our relationships can offer support during difficult times. Social wellness involves building healthy, nurturing and supportive relationships as well as fostering a genuine connection with those around you. But this is what students are slowly forgetting.

In today’s educational sysytem, school unintentionallyimplant in every student’s mind that school is competition and that everyone in school are each other’s rival. Therefore students should study books cover to cover in order to achieve the “top”. Students doesn’t have a choice but to abuse themselves in order to finish tons of school work. They then eventually isolate themselves from the real world and stay in a corner to “study” the facts in Science and History classes. Students just spend majority of their time memorizing facts and solving equations rather than spending time with their families or friends, not even with thierselves.

This is one of the tragic reality in our society, students are drowning in the sea of school works that they forget that they are not living alone. They tend to forget that there is much more than studying facts and dealing with equations. They forget that the real purpose of going to school is to learn how to live life and that is through dealing and connecting with others. They are already neglecting social connections where in fact social wellness is a very important component in a person’s health especially to students. Connectivity with the people around you hepls you gather support system as you go along your journey. Let your social relationships be a stepping stone in achieving the top, TOGETHER.