Understand and solve your child's sleep problems

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Sleep problems are one of the most common and certainly exhausting problems most parents face. Children do not always need as much sleep as their parents do, even though many people assume all children need 12 hours’ sleep each night.

Indeed, each child’s sleep needs vary - one may regularly sleep 11 or 12 hours each night while another needs only nine hours’ sleep. There are some children, usually the very active and alert, need much less sleep, which can put enormous strain on their parents.