Summary of: Study Links Bedtime Rules to Better Skills in Preschool Children

About this, is important to understand that the bedtime in children is very dificult to respect, but is essential to their growing process, because a good bedtime improve their development.

Some studys says that in the four years old, the bedtime at the same time with eleven hours to sleep, is good for children; and the contrary, produces some descents of the regular performance. Some studys makes that the parents have to follow routines like reading books or telling stories to their children, before the sleeptime, trying to achieve an earlier bedtime to get higher scores; and not only for this, because is important too, that the children who sleep later and haven’t routines, has a bad sleepy and a unsatisfactory rest.

Another good thing is that more sleep make a person run faster (example with Stanford University football players) and the sleep is part of an athlete’s training program. Finally, all the adults should try to get seven or eight hours of sleep; teenagers and young adults should sleep for nine hours or more, going to bed and wake up at the same times every day; and taking brief naps during the day to get extra sleep.

By Doug Johnson