Get Up And Do Something: 27 extra minutes of sleep may make kids better behaved

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27 extra minutes of sleep may make kids better behaved Oct 17th 2012, 11:36 Is the secret to good behavior in children a little extra shut-eye? A new study finds that kids are more likely to be alert and less likely to be disruptive if they added an extra 27 minutes to their nightly sleep schedules. "In daily life, if you think of the impact of short power naps, usually about 15 to 20 minutes during the day, you can see that this amount of sleep can have a significant positive impact on mood, attention, and well-being," study author Dr. Reut Gruber, director of the attention behavior and sleep lab at the Douglas Institute at McGill University, in Quebec, said to WebMD.

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