Children with persistent sleep problems are more likely to have also a behavioral problem. Furthermore, children with poor sleep habits do not do as well academically in school.Sleep behaviors are among the most common concerns that parents of young children bring to their physicians. A child who goes to bed unwillingly or wakes frequently during the night can be highly disruptive to a family. Sleep disorders in children, if confirmed by reproducible findings in a sleep laboratory, are not appreciably different from those occurring in adults.
Finding disordered sleep behavior is difficult because of differences in sleep patterns that occur at different stages. Thus, it is not considered abnormal when a two-month-old babies wakes frequently in the night, but it is considered abnormal in a two-year-old child. To make the definition of sleep problems even more difficult, families vary greatly in their tolerance of their children's sleeping habits; what one family finds problematic, another family takes as a matter of course.
Finding disordered sleep behavior is difficult because of differences in sleep patterns that occur at different stages. Thus, it is not considered abnormal when a two-month-old babies wakes frequently in the night, but it is considered abnormal in a two-year-old child. To make the definition of sleep problems even more difficult, families vary greatly in their tolerance of their children's sleeping habits; what one family finds problematic, another family takes as a matter of course.
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