Sleep Routine for Multi-Tasking Children
by Brian Yalung on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Take a look at a child and you will see a routine of activities that they normally do each day. These include eating meals, watching television and sleeping. Now for most, these are given facts. But the real thing here is that there are extenders of one aspect over the other.
For all of these, sleep may be the most overlooked aspect. Television normally eats up the time given to sleep and once it does happen, children will start to have abnormal sleeping patterns along the way.
The survey, which has been conducted annually for 14 years, asked for the first time whether children watched television while eating dinner or in bed before going to sleep. It found that 58% watch during their evening meal, while 63% lie in bed watching the screen (rising to almost three-quarters of 13 to 16-year-olds). Two-thirds – particularly the youngest children – watch before school, and 83% turn on the television after returning home.
(Source) The Guardian Unlimited
Categories: How to sleep better, Sleep Issues.
