Your Child's Sleep Needs
by Adapted from The 7 O’Clock Bedtime by Inda Schaenen
According to experts at the Sleep Medicine and Research Center in St. Louis, the current estimates of the sleep needs of children for each 24 hours are as follows:
• One-year-old: 14 hours, including one or two naps
• Two-year-old: 11 to 12 hours at night plus a single, after-lunch nap of one to two hours
• Three-year-old: 12 to 12 1/2 hours
• Four-year-old: 11 ½ to 12 hours
• Five-year-old: 11 hours
• Six-year-old: 10 3/4 to 11 hours
• Seven-year-old: 10 1/2 to 11 hours
• Eight-year-old: 10 1/4 to 10 3/4 hours
• Nine-year-old: 10 to 10 1/3 hours
• Ten through puberty: 9 3/4 to 10 hours
• Adolescent to adult: 9 ¼ hours
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