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Kids Have Been Short on Sleep for 100 Years

At least if official recommendations are any guide

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 14, 2012 5:11 PM CST

(Newser) – If doctors' recommendations are accurate, then kids have been sleep-deprived for more than a century. Researchers reviewed dozens of sets of sleep guidelines dating from 1897 to 2009 and compared them to data on how much sleep kids actually have gotten over the years. They...   Read full story »

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