Are Your Kids Getting Enough Recommended Sleep?
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is releasing for the first time guidelines for how much shut-eye kids should be getting.
FOX’s Jeff Monosso reports:�
New guidelines from doctors who specialize in sleep disorders say that teens 13 to 18 years old should be getting eight�to 10 hours of sleep per night.
Children ages one�to two�should sleep 11 to 14 hours and 12-to-16 hours of sleep, including naps for infants aged 4-to-12 months.
Saying that adequate sleep is linked to�improved attention, behavior, learning, mental and physical health.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, which endorses the new guidelines, also recommends that TV�and computer screens are turned off a half an hour before bedtime and that parents not allow kids to have screens in�their bedrooms.
In Chicago, Jeff Monosso, FOX News.
