my 16 year old daughter is always tired...

[Halsu]

She eats well and healthily and is normal i other ways...could she be anemic?

[123everton]

Could she just be a sulky teenager?

[B00]

As long as you don't think it's due to anything iffy, drugs, booze etc, then yes sadly everton is right.

I have an abiding memory of my eldest at 16, sleeping almost 24/7 on holiday in a baking hot tent in a sleeping bag.

[cazzz1975]

If she is eating healthily I wouldnt worry too much, a lot of teens seems to regress to the sleeping patterns of a newborn.

[China Doll]

God yeah, I never used to crawl out of bed before 12pm when I was a teenager.

[Halsu]

yeah my two older lads were the same, Its just that she complains that she feels tired no matter how much she sleeps...she prob is just being a teen tho!

[123everton]

There's an old Mongolian story.
A man had a daughter who suddenly became very ill, she had become melancholy and tired, worried he went to the local shamen, "have you got a dog?" the shamen asked.
"Yes" he replied.
"Then you must get rid of the dog."
"But he's a good dog" he protested.
"If you don't get rid of the dog then you're daughter will not get well." the shamen insisted.
The man went away, he didn't want to kill the dog but couldn't think what else to do, the next day he found a cave that was enclosed so the dog couldn't escape so he placed the dog there and everyday he went to attend to it.
Within days his daughter returned to health.
I'll tell you why after "The Big Bang Theory." in roughly half an hour.

[123everton]

It turned out that the girl had an admirer, every night he'd call at her home to court her, but the dog woul bark and chase him away.
With the dog out the way their romance could blossom, one day the father went up to the cave to see the dog, only to discover it had died.
So, he buried the animal and placed it's head between it's back legs.
Later the daughter was married to her admirer and nine months later she gave birth to a dighter with a pony tail.
Mongolian folklore states that if you bury a dog with it's head between it's legs then it will be reborn as a girl with a pomy tail.
I do so like a happy ending. ;-))

[Halsu]

???

[Eve]

Why not get her to have a general health check at the doctors just to make sure everything is as it should be.

[Sqad]

123everton...LOL one of the "classic" replies.

[123everton]

I just think that's a really nice story.
Tell it to the little ones.

[snowday]

Maybe she needs some new interests. Many teens sleep because they have nothing better to do, or at least nothing that motivates them to stay awake. Outside activities are key :)