The phone on my Principal’s desk rang and I didn’t even get the opportunity to say “Hello”. “Get down here now!” shrieked my panicked Year 5 teacher, an educator usually calm and highly competent. In the background I could hear ...

The teen tendency to sleep in may be to their benefit, according to experts currently researching the impact of changes in sleep, body clock and light on teenage brains. Monash University sleep scientists are conducting the research to uncover how ...

Want a cognitively optimal child? Canadian researchers have found a winning formula: one hour of exercise + minimal recreational screen time + plenty of sleep. While the finding may be intuitive, their study of 4.500 American nine and 10-year-olds provides evidence for it. Using ...

Start adjusting your child’s sleep schedule now to avoid them feeling jet lagged for the first few weeks of school, sleep experts say. Professor Dorothy Bruck, sleep psychologist, from Victoria University said, “Getting students back into early morning starts for ...