Children who regularly get 10 or more hours of sleep per night transitioned more successfully to kindergarten than peers with worse sleeping patterns, according to a study published in Pediatrics.
Researchers from Penn State University hypothesized that children “obtaining more sleep would show higher levels of socioemotional and learning engagement, executive functioning, and academic outcomes, net of socioeconomic, health, and school attendance covariates, compared with children with lesser amounts of sleep.”
“Curiously, one determinant largely missing in studies of