Sleep Spindles In Midday Naps Enhance Learning In Preschool Children

[Shell]

Oh, you should read the book Sleepless in America by Mary Sheedy-Kurcinka

It talks about how many parents mistakenly think that just because their child is wild in the evenings that it is due to napping in the day or that that behavior proves they dont' need a nap but in reality it is really the fact that kids' brains have shut down LONG before their bodies do so when they are running around like a chicken with no head, it's because in an essence...they are... ::

The book is a FANTASTIC sneak peek inside what sleep does and doesn't do for a child.

http://www.amazon.com/Sleepless-Amer.../dp/006073602X

Thanks for the link- I will check it out!

[Jack Sprat]

Thanks for the link! Makes me sad though...Our DD is 4.5 and goes to afternoon K-Prep. They don't do a rest time. The poor girl goes to bed at 7:15and sleeps till 6:30. She told me she misses her naps. On the weekends she will take a two hour nap and then go to bed at 9:00 and get up at 6:30. She is so much happier when she has a nap. I knew naps were important!!