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With televisions, computers, cellphones, school work and extracurricular activities, parents worry that their kids are so busy that they aren't getting enough sleep. But a new review suggests this is not a new problem, and perhaps it might not be a problem at all.
"Kids are sleeping less than they used to, with sleep declining by about 1.25 hours over the last 100 years," said review co-author Tim Olds, a professor of health sciences at the Sansom Institute for Health Research in Adelaide, Australia. But, he said, it's not clear whether children are really missing that additional slumber.
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