Family Tips

Preschoolers need about 10 to 12 hours per day, and there’s no reason to be completely tough about day hours. A 5-year-old child who sleeps enough during the night doesn’t need a daytime nap. Instead, a quiet time may be offered. Most preschools and kindergartens have brief periods of quiet time when the children lie or just rest.
Preschoolers very often have nightmares and problems falling asleep some nights. You can prepare some calm games, which will help to pass the time and relax your child before sleep. These activities may include book reading, or listening to cassette or CD player and story tape or CD.
Junior school children need about 10 hours of sleep each night. Bedtime difficulties can arise at this age from a child’s need for private time with parents, without brothers or sisters around. Try to stay only with the kid just before bedtime and use this time to share confidences and have small discussions, which will also prepare your child for sleep.
Children ages 10 to 12 need a little more than 9 hours of sleep a night. But in any case only parents can judge the necessary amount of rest for their children  and control that they’re in bed in time for sufficient sleep.
In this age lack of sleep for children can cause sensitive behavior and can also make a condition like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) even worse.