Lack of sleep is hurting Canada’s kids — and parents are drugging them to try to help out, new study shows.
University of B.C. nursing professor Wendy Hall says child sleep deprivation is linked to learning difficulties, behavioural problems and even increased risk of obesity. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop , PROVINCE A surprising new Canadian study suggests 70 per cent of children have trouble settling into what should come naturally — sleep. And further, about 30 per cent of parents struggling with this problem give their kids over-the-counter medications such as melatonin, a so-called “magic pill” with unknown long-term effects. University of B.C. researcher and nursing school professor Wendy Hall — who has studied child sleep for 10 years — says …
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