Lack of sleep affects kid’s learning
Lack of sleep will adversely affect your ability to remember what you learned the day before, so say researchers at a top French University. Lack of sleep will therefore adversely affect your kid’s learning.
Nature magazine published this conclusion as far back as 1983 stating that REM sleep was required to enable the brain to process the information and the experiences of the day.
Without this sleep the brain was unable to delete superfluous information and pathways and would therefore be less capable of remembering and learning.
This is a very important message for the quality of children’s learning. What about during vacations and holiday times?
The obvious thing to do to give your children the best chance when learning, is to make sure that they get plenty of sleep and this means during vacation and holiday times as well.
During vacation and holiday periods the temptation is to let the kids stay up late and the pressure from the kids themselves to stay up late is there as well.
However, these times away from school are great opportunities for learning whilst at the same time having a lot of fun doing so.
To give the best chance of learning during vacations; the thing to do is therefore to have them go to bed at their normal school bed time.
I’ll bet that if they do, your kids will be set up for the day and more likely to learn well. Of course on some occasions it’s great to have them stay up late, why not let both them and you have a treat sometimes.
