Depending on age, children require data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep/how-much-sleep” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep/how-much-sleep” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>between 9 and 16 hours of sleep a night (though the higher end of that scale is for babies under a year old). But ensuring that they consistently get as much as they need isn’t always an easy task, as most parents can attest to.
The percentage of children between 4 months to 14 years getting insufficient sleep varies between data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-research/facts-stats/children-sleep-facts-and-stats.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-research/facts-stats/children-sleep-facts-and-stats.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>25% to 50% depending on the US state, while data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-of-children-and-young-people-in-england/2023-wave-4-follow-up/part-2-sleep-loneliness-activities-and-health-behaviours” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-of-children-and-young-people-in-england/2023-wave-4-follow-up/part-2-sleep-loneliness-activities-and-health-behaviours” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>National Health Service (NHS) statistics showed that when looking at a single week, 37.8% of children…
