NBC News – Kim Fitzsimons
Is your school-age child irritable or inattentive? Not doing well academically, or as well as he could be? What about weight? Is this an issue? If you answered yes to any of the above, it might help to know that the cause of these and other common concerns could be nothing more than a lack of sleep. And if that’s the case, there’s an obvious fix: more sleep. Unfortunately, many kids aren’t getting it says Hoi See Tsao, MD, FAAP, a pediatric emergency fellow at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I.