How much sleep do children really need?

Prof Wendy Hall

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Prof Wendy Hall

Professor, Associate Director Graduate Programs, UBC School of Nursing, University of British Columbia

Prof Wendy Hall

How much sleep, and what type of sleep, do our children need to thrive?

In parenting, there aren’t often straightforward answers, and sleep tends to be contentious. There are questions about whether we are overstating children’s sleep problems. Yet we all know from experience how much better we feel, and how much more ready we are to take on the day, when we have had an adequate amount of good quality sleep.

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