{"id":1464,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/watching-tv-and-gaming-before-bed-doesnt-impact-on-a-childs-sleep\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:12","slug":"watching-tv-and-gaming-before-bed-doesnt-impact-on-a-childs-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/watching-tv-and-gaming-before-bed-doesnt-impact-on-a-childs-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching TV and gaming before bed doesn&#039;t impact on a child&#039;s sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-05 14:18:29<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Watching television or gaming before bed makes little difference to a child&#8217;s sleep.<BR><br \/>\nExperts have long feared that screen time in the evening can harm a youngster&#8217;s quality of rest but boffins in New Zealand have found that it has minimal impact.<BR><br \/>\nThe team tracked the screen time of dozens of children between the ages of 11 and 14 and found the devices only impacted sleep if they were used in bed.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Bradley Bronsan, lead author of the study at the University of Otago, said: &#8220;Our most interesting findings were that this screen time before they got into bed had little impact on sleep that night.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, screen time once in bed did impair their sleep &#8211; it stopped them from going to sleep for about half an hour, and reduced the amount of sleep they got that night.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHe continued: &#8220;We need to revisit sleep guidelines, so they fit the world we live in, and actually make sense &#8211; the current ones aren&#8217;t achievable or appropriate for how we live.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-05 14:18:29 Watching television or gaming before bed makes little difference to a child&#8217;s sleep. Experts have long feared that screen time in the evening can harm a youngster&#8217;s quality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}