Importance of good sleep routines for children

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181203080327.htm

This article aimed at highlighting the importance of good sleep routines for children from 4-months-old to 18-years-old. it is a scientific research result which involved close to 300,000 kids in North America, Europe and Asia. The result is that keeping a regular bedtime was important for promoting children’s growth and development. Establishing certain rituals, avoiding exposure to electronic media or watching excited movies around bedtime would help to adequate and healthy sleep which would finally lead to a better sleep hygiene. 

Sleep hygiene睡眠健康

help kids unwind帮助孩子放松

a good night's rest

adequate, healthy sleep

promote children's growth and development

honed in on 44 studies经过44项研究的磨练

infants and toddlers/'tɑdlɚ/; preschoolers; school-age children; adolescents

good-to-strong endorsement

self-soothing

extensive evidence

the more exposure kids had to electronic media around bedtime, the less sleep they had

highlighted the importance of

cope with

establishing certain rituals /'rɪtʃʊəlz/ n. 典礼；宗教仪式；固定程序（ritual的复数形式）adj. 惯常的

was involved in designing and implementing a sleep intervention /,ɪntɚ'vɛnʃən/

everyone was on board and involved from the outset