We provide food, shelter, and clothing to our loved ones. Family health insurance, health care, safety, and love. Fun times, entertainment, stimulation, and stability. We go out of our way to make sure all of these needs are met. So why do we disregard the importance of sleep?
Never mind that we don’t get enough sleep for ourselves between all those deadlines. How much sleep are your children getting? I can match up bad days at school, extra fighting between my two kids, and inability to get homework done after school with nights that they did not get adequate sleep. The results are the same 100% of the time.
My Son 13 is grouchy, mean, and unfocused. He cannot get his homework done and throws anger tantrums over the tiniest things.
My Daughter 9 is whiney, short fused, stomps her feet and has a crying meltdown.
These things ONLY happen when they are tired and they happen EVERY time their sleep pattern is compromised. The time spent tending to all this drama is far greater than time spent putting some steps into place to help keep everyone on track. More on that in part 3.
For now, here is what kind of sleep your children should be getting, according to webmd.
- 1-4 weeks old 15 1/2 – 16 1/2 hours
- 1-4 months old 14 1/2 – 15 1/2 hours
- 4-12 months old 14-15 hours
- 1-3 years old 12-14 hours
- 3-6 years old 10 3/4 – 12 hours
- 7-12 years old 10-11 hours
- 12-18 years old 8 1/4-9 1/2 hours
How does your household compare?
reall great information i would love to share this to all the moms in my friend circle.thanx for sharing
It certainly would take quite some time to read all those blogs. It’s an impressive list of
When looking at the number of hours you have given, I don’t think most of the kids these days even come closer to that.Sleeping is a very important thing and must use it correctly for your own good health.By the way those facts given by you were some nice findings. Keep up the good work!
I think its best to get them into a routine at a young age because sleep is very important. But there ovbuilsy break the pattern in there teens i no i did.
Hot glass of milk at night and get them use to sleeping early. I suffer from lack of sleep early on and the habit is hard to break. Now a days, if i’m averaging 4-5 hours on weekdays and making it all up on weekends. It sucks…but it’s become a hard habit to break.
I have a five-month old daughter and she sleeps 10 hours a day. Is there any reason for me to be alarmed if she gets less sleep than what is required? She’s very much awake in the middle of the night and doesn’t want to sleep. So I let her play until she starts to nod off.
Really it is nice post and thanks for providing this information.
My son is 4.5 years old and I am worried about his sleeping habits. He is my only son so there are somethings wrong which shouldn’t happen. I often allow him to do the stuff and break the laws but it is wrong. Anyways he is sleeping 10 hours and now I’ll keep a strict eye on him.
We should also tell them how important sleep to us. not enough sleep really gives us a lot of trouble.
Thanks for the info and really it is very helpful.
we’ll from my observance at my home we sleep at the average of 8 hours for a 5 person family.