(Natalie Holdway/CBC)The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed the new childhood sleep guidelines, which were published Monday in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. "Most parents and care providers don't really know how much sleep children should be getting," she said in a news release. That's why CPS will endorse the Canadian 24 Hour Movement Behaviour Guidelines for Children and Youth later this month, she says. UBC sleep specialist and nursing professor Wendy Hall, the only Canadian on the 13-member panel, says the recommendations are important because lack of sleep is a growing trend. To make sure parents are informed, the pediatrician says she has the current Canadian guidelines "plastered" on the walls of her clinics.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2016 22:51 UTC