The new school year is just around the corner.

If your kids have been staying up late this summer, now is a good time to get their sleep schedules back on track.

"In the summer, we tend to go to bed later, the sun sets later, our body's natural circadian rhythm, or clock in our brain, is set for later. And so, we might be going to bed a lot later than we normally would be for school. If you start trying to scoot it back now, it will be a gradual scooting back instead of a cold turkey flip back to school time, which could be really rough for that first week of school," explained Brian Chen, MD, sleep specialist at Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Chen said when a child doesn't get enough sleep, that can negatively impact them in the classroom.

They may be more irritable, have trouble remembering t

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