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Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1919. “SUMMER TIME" AND CHILDREN'S SLEEP.

THE Lonilihi County Council have issued u leu Hot on children’s sloop, written by u well-known social worker who lias seen the need of impressing on parents the importance of early hours. It. came to the notiee of the Education Committee, and impressed them as being likely to benefit the work of the schools. They accordingly adopted it, and 100,000 copies have been circulated as follows: —To the Parents of School-children ; Many children have been found unable lately to do justice to (heir lessons because .they have had 100 little sleep. (1) Medical authorities and others a,-*-grae that school-children need (ho following amount: of sleep: Four years old, twelve hours; live to seven years old, eleven to twelve hours; eight to eleven years old, ten to eleven hours; twelve to fourteen years old, nine to ten hours. (2) Children grow mainly while sleeping or resting. Hu you want your children to grow up stunted? (3) Tired children learn badly, make little progress at school, and often drift to the bottom of the class. Du you want your children to grow up stupid? (4) When children go to bed lute their sleep is often disturbed

hy dreams, and they do no! gel complete rest. J)o you wan! your children to sleep badly and become nervous? (5) Sufficient sleep draws a, child onward and upward in school and in home life; insufficient sleep drags it backward and downward. Which way do you want your child to go? (ti) Tiresome children are often only tired children. Will you pul Ihe truth of this to (he tost? (7) Time spent out of bed means more woar-an'd-lcar to children’s clothes and bools. Why not save such wear-and-fear? (8J A tired mother might get a quiet hour or two if the children were in lied hy (!.30 p.m. Why not lake advantage of this? (ff) The fact that a neighbour's child is sent to bed too late is not a good reason for sending your child to bed too late. Two wrongs don’t make a rigid , do I hey ? (10) Going to bed late has hy now become a bad habit, which may he difficult to euro, Will you persevere till you succeed in curing it ? It is worth trying, for your success will strengthen your children, and their strength will strengthen our country. When the advisability of ‘‘summer lime" was (irst debated, one o! the arguments of its opponents was that it would result in the children being deprived of an hour’s sice)) in the twenty-four. So forcible was the object ion considered hy the departmental committee which inquired into the whole questiofi that education authorities were asked to undertake propaganda to persuade parents to send their children earlier to bed, and circulars were sent to Hie London County Council teachers asking them to explain flic importance of the matter, in the first year of “summer time’’ the complaints received as to the had effect on children were many and apparently serious, hut in the second year practically nothing was heard on the subject. It remains (rue, however, that a large number of parents keep their children up longer than they should do, and health and education suffer in consequence.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1940, 15 February 1919, Page 2

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Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1919. “SUMMER TIME" AND CHILDREN'S SLEEP. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1940, 15 February 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1919. “SUMMER TIME" AND CHILDREN'S SLEEP. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1940, 15 February 1919, Page 2

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