{"id":244,"date":"2012-04-01T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2015-07-24T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:20:17","slug":"the-importance-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many scientific studies that have shown the importance of sleep.\u00a0 We all know that getting enough sleep helps us function better during the day, but this is especially true for children and their ability to effectively think during the school day.\u00a0\u00a0Throughout my\u00a0years of teaching, I\u00a0have noticed that children who come to school tired due to lack of sleep do not perform very well at school.\u00a0\u00a0In my experiences, most of these students tend to underperform their well-rested peers.\u00a0\u00a0Students who\u00a0are not\u00a0rested are usually unable to\u00a0focus attentively during lessons; this may lead to a compromised level of deep understanding of concepts taught,\u00a0resulting, in\u00a0some instances,\u00a0lower test scores.\u00a0 Parents are strongly encouraged to set bedtime routines to ensure the success of their children as they learn throughout their days at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many scientific studies that have shown the importance of sleep.\u00a0 We all know that getting enough sleep helps us function better during the day, but this is especially true for children and their ability to effectively think during the school day.\u00a0\u00a0Throughout my\u00a0years of teaching, I\u00a0have noticed that children who come to school tired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}