As children grow, adequate sleep plays a crucial role in their development, impacting memory, learning, emotional regulation, and immune function. Getting your kid to bed at night can be difficult, making it impossible to get them up the next day for school. This domino effect combo is a perfect recipe for sleep deprivation—an issue that goes much deeper than having to drag them out of bed. Growth hormone is secreted during sleep, particularly during a type of sleep called slow wave sleep (the deepest stage of sleep),” says Soffler, “so that’s when a lot of crucial growth and tissue repair happens.” She adds that a lot of learning consolidation also occurs during this sleep stage. Emotional Mood swings, including morning moodiness, fall into both emotional and behavioral categories. While your kid being grumpy isn’t necessarily cause for concern, it is possible that these moods have roots in underlying mental health issues or may be slowly contributing to their creation. Getting poor quantity and quality of sleep makes them irritable it puts them at risk for things like anxiety and depression,” he says, “both of which are often overlooked and under looked in children.” Getting poor quantity and quality of sleep makes them irritable it puts them at risk for things like anxiety and depression,” he says, “both of which are often overlooked and underlooked in children.”
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