“No duques now … then you don’t sleep at night.” Wrong. Let the children sleep comfortable. The sixths do not harm the amount of night sleep.
Babies and young children normally sleep their nap during the day, a habit that has been associated with the development of the first memories.
However, this trend leaves many parents unaware of whether or not their children should sleep their nap. Many parents even tend to discourage the sixth for fear that then their children do not sleep at night.
A study last week at Research Square He undid the taboo and revealed that, in fact, instead of being a threat to night sleep, a short nap during the day seems to increase the total amount of sleep of a child.
“Although it is recognized that nap has a positive effect on cognitive development, some parents and teachers fear that nap can interfere with night sleep or reduce valuable learning time,” he says, Ao, Stephanie Mazza from the University of Lyon, in France, which was part of the study.
To verify that the seases significantly disturb night sleep, Mazza and their colleagues put sleep locators on their wrist at 85 children between 2 and 5 years of six French preschools and measured their sleep for an average of 7.8 days.
These data, combined with parents’ sleep diaries, revealed that a 1 hour increase in nap was associated with less 13.6 minutes of sleep at night, on average, and was late at 6.4 minutes the time the child fell asleep at night. But, On the days when children slept the nap, their total sleep time throughout the day increased 45 minutes.
“The sixths resulted in a Significant increase in total daily sleep timeapproaching children of internationally recommended sleep duration for a 24 -hour period, ”said Mazza.
As New Scientist recalls, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children of this age sleep between 10 to 13 hours a day.
“Our data suggest that the Sesta helps to increase sleep in general, even if it means a time to lie slightly later later“The researcher repeated.
“Instead of considering seises as disturbing, they must be recognized as a Valuable Source of Restespecially when children are exposed to stimulating environments, ”he added.
Therefore, if children can sleep the nap, Let them sleep at ease!
