SLEEP REQUIREMENTS OF CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 229, 22 June 1921, Page 4

SLEEP REQUIREMENTS OF CHILDREN

The school medical department of the London County Council has issued the following leaflet for th© instruction of parents regarding the sleep requirements of children: — 1. Medical authorities and others agree that school children need the following amount of sleep:— Hours of Sleep Ages in Years. .required, 4 12 15 to 7 U to 12 8 to 11 10 to 11 12 to 14 0 to 1° 2. Children grow mainly while eleeping or resting. Do you want your children to grow up stunted? 3. Tired children learn badly, makelittle progress at school, and often drift to ffio bottom cf the class. Do you want your children to grow yip stupid?. 4 When children go to bed late their sleep is often disturbed by dreams, and they do not get complete rest. Do you want your children to sleep badly and become nervous? 5. Sufficient sleep draws' a child onward and upward in school and boms life. Insufficient sleep drags it backward and downward. "Which, way do you want your clnld to go? 6. Tiresome children are often only tired children. Will you put the truth of this to tho test? 7. Time spent out of bed means more wear-and-tear of children’s clothes and boots. AVhy not save such wear-and-tear? - , , l • r 8 A tired mother might get a quiet hour or two if the children were in bed by 6.30 p.m. Why not take advantage of this? 9. The fact that a neighbours child is sent to bed too late is not*a good reason for sending your child to be.d too late. Two wrongs do. not make a right, do they? 10. Going to bed late has now become a bad habit, which may be. difficult to cure. 'Will you persevere ,1111 you succeed in curing it?