Returning to school sleep schedule ''no easy task''
23/08/2010
Encouraging youngsters to get out of their children's beds when school starts again is not easy for any parent, it has been acknowledged.
For weeks they will have been staying up and getting out of bed late, so reversing this habit is difficult, noted a piece for the Globe and Mail Update.
Jonathan Fleming, co-director of the sleep program at the University of British Columbia Hospital, explained that adapting to a later sleep schedule is generally quite easy.
Reversing this, however, is not quite so simple, so parents must ease their children into a different routine gradually to ensure minimum disruption, he suggested.
"It's fine to use the parents as an alarm, but they shouldn't be enabling by becoming the snooze alarm," the expert added.
Research from the Florida Sleep Institute recently showed that the excessive use of technology can disrupt a child's ability to sleep at night.
Posted by Elizabeth Mewes
