Bedtime
- NewsMarie-Claire Dorking
Why grown-ups could benefit from a set bedtime routine too
“Maintaining roughly the same bedtime and waking up time each day is beneficial to adult health as it gives us the best chance of achieving quality, rejuvenating sleep,” explains Simon Williams from The Sleep Council. “A sleep cycle consist of four stages,” he explains. “Stages one and two are light stages of sleep from which we can be easily roused.
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Should Your Give Your Kids A Bath Every Night? This Parenting Blogger Doesn’t Think So
Lauren Knight believes that giving her eldest son a bath every night may have caused him to develop mild eczema on his back and legs. “During the times our children went for three (or more, I admit) days without a bath, I noticed that our oldest boy’s skin seemed healthier and less irritated,” Lauren wrote in the Washington Post. It prompted the mum-of-three, who blogs at Crumbs Bums, to wonder if a daily bath is really necessary for children and whether the pitfalls of a nightly tub scrub act
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This Video Of A Mum Getting Her 4 Kids Ready For Bed Is Epic
Strike a pose! [Photo: Instagram/corriel21]
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The Science Behind How Bedtime Stories Help Kids
Whether it’s a classic such as Where the Wild Things Are or a new bestseller like The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, bedtime stories have always been a big hit with little kids. One recent study from Psychological Science suggests that being read to builds a child’s vocabulary, and that in turn makes her more prepared to learn to read in the future. “Our study found that the books contained more unique words,” study coauthor Jessica Montag, assistant research psychologist at the University o
