Monday, January 12, 2015

Sleep - How Important it is for Your Child to Learn

There have been studies done in the Sleep Medicine journal  The finding:  The greater sleep efficiency, the children did better in math and languages.  Science and Art are not affected by the type of sleep a child has.

Analyze how your child seems to be sleeping.  Are they waking up often in the night?  You might need to let they borrow your "Jawbone Up", or fitbit, or other devise that can measure the mvoements of their sleep.

If you find an issue with their sleep, contract your child's doctor.  "Short or poor sleep is a significant risk factor for poor academic performance that is frequently ignored," per Gruber.  Again this was a very small study of just 75 students.