Sleep deprivation affects children's success

Sleeping is a necessity to conduct business the next day. The duration of sleep during the night is known to strongly influence the health of the body of a person.
Less than 9 hours of sleep makes children find it difficult to learn in school the next day. A study of 142 primary school students trying to compare the number of hours of sleep with the performance of academic skills.

Children aged 6 and 7 years who have sleep deprivation tend to find difficulty to communicate and do math, spelling, grammar, and understanding is also disrupted. Memory and learning ability are affected.

The study also found that more children are allowed to use computers and televisions in their rooms. The computer equipment and television are one factor that can cause lack of sleep.

"Most children have a quantity of insufficient sleep time, which is important for their intellectual property. In fact, it can not be repaired, "said Ramon Cladel of the Autonomous University of Barcelona who stressed the importance of good sleep at night.

The study found that students who sleep 8-9 hours have lower performance than the students who slept 9 to 11 hours.

"Currently, there is great concern about the practice of the child watching television, playing computer or video games in the night that makes the child not to sleep at the same time every night," he said.

Professor Russell Foster, head of neuroscience at the University of Oxford said: "It is clear that sleep from 9 pm to 9 am is vital to optimize cognitive performance in children. "

Bad habits of sleeping late at night affect the performance of a child in everyday tasks, and make it difficult to find a solution of complex problems.

If the children need 9 to 11 hours of sleep, adults need 6.5 to 8.5 hours of sleep.

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