Many of them have spent vast amounts of time and money trying to get their children to sleep. “Sometimes I’ll go to school and I’ll have had only two and a half hours’ sleep,” she says, with wide, weary eyes. It’s like having a newborn baby.” On so little sleep, Ellie had little emotional resilience when other children started picking on her. “We desperately need to get children’s sleep on to the public health agenda,” says Catherine Hill. • Source: the Children’s Sleep Charity.

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2017 09:00 UTC