As a parent of four children, I fully understand how frustrating it can be when a child starts transitioning out of the napping stage. When my children stopped napping, they were often ornery during ...

Maybe you're looking forward to your child ditching the daily nap or maybe you're nervous about losing a window of time to yourself each day. No matter where you fall as a parent, you may wonder: When ...

Though preschool children often nap when they are home, increasing pressure to pump more knowledge into our kids’ heads is leading many schools to cut nap time. Does it matter? As most parents have ...

Parents of young children are accustomed to putting their babies and toddlers down for naps, but when should you stop these afternoon naps?Scientists at the University of Maryland want to know why and ...

LITTLE ROCK — What makes a child nap? Most parents cherish toddlers’ naps as moments of respite and recharging, for parent and child alike; we are all familiar with the increased crankiness that comes ...

A University of Arizona psychologist has a hunch that napping might not be so good for some children with Down syndrome. Sorry, moms. Jamie Edgin, an assistant ...

Dammylene Natnat, 31, lives in Sweden where it is common to allow children to sleep outside in a stroller ...

Melinda Collier told Newsweek that "you can't and shouldn't chalk up someone, let alone a child, as a lost cause." ...

When I get up in the morning, the first thing I think about is when I can go back to sleep. Sounds a bit depressing, but we do sleep for 1/3 of our lives. When we haven’t gotten enough sleep, we yearn ...

Research fellow Emma Frey fits Miles Dumlao, 4, with an electrode cap to record his brain activity during a nap in the Somneurolab. A University of Massachusetts Amherst sleep scientist, funded with ...