Sentences with phrase «schedule than younger children»

Preschoolers (3 - 5 years) are able to spend as many as three days away from a parent and can tolerate a more flexible schedule than younger children.

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With busy schedules that often include preschool, swim lessons, dance class and other activities (and don't include a nap) young children need solid snooze time more than ever.

Twenty - nine percent of children 2 to 3 years of age have a television in their bedroom, and 30 % of parents have reported that watching a television program enabled their children to fall asleep.3 Although parents perceive a televised program to be a calming sleep aid, some programs actually increase bedtime resistance, delay the onset of sleep, cause anxiety about falling asleep, and shorten sleep duration.41 Specifically, in children younger than 3 years, television viewing is associated with irregular sleep schedules.42 Poor sleep habits have adverse effects on mood, behavior, and learning.

It was also notable that diagnostic data for this investigation were based on an independent, age - appropriate, interviewer - based psychiatric interview (the PAPA) different than that used in the first set of investigations (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Version IV — Young Child), adding further weight to these data contributing to the growing database validating preschool MDD.