A sleep deficit in growing children is seen to be detrimental to growth, deployment and also negatively affects performance in school.
Children sometimes suffer from inadequate sleep and sometimes from poor quality of sleep; both are detrimental.
So it is important for parents to be watching out for the following telltale signs that a child may be suffering a sleep deficit:
- The child does not wake up by himself in the morning. Rather he has to be woken up. In so being woken up, he is difficult to awaken and is reluctant to wake up.
- The child often oversleeps, thereby creating a recurrent scenario of rushing through morning activities such as getting dressed, having breakfast etc.
- The child may display signs such as lack of concentration and leaving incomplete tasks that he is given. Academic performance and grades may also suffer.
22/11/2012 : Health Watch Center.
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