Sleep Needs for Children, 2

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine advises  that children aged six to twelve years of age need to obtain nine to twelve hours of sleep per night on a regular basis to provide optimal health. This means removing all TVs, mobile phones, iPads, electronic games or equipment from their bedroom(s), with a recommended non-use of all screen time an hour before bedtime. Average eleven-year-olds will find it quite difficult, if not impossible, to turn off electronics on their own. Electronics can be addicting. At age eleven, their brains need another nine or ten years before myelination of their corpus callosum—the largest of several bridges that connect the two brain hemispheres—is completed. Likely six to eight more years after that before their prefrontal cortex is developed enough for them to make healthy decisions on their own.

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