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Inda Schaenen; Adapted from 'The 7 O'Clock Bedtime' ON Oct 3, 2001 at 4:15AM

According to experts at the Sleep Medicine and Research Center in St. Louis, the current estimates of the sleep needs of children for each 24 hours are as follows:

• One-year-old: 14 hours, including one or two naps

• Two-year-old: 11 to 12 hours at night plus a single, after-lunch nap of one to two hours

• Three-year-old: 12 to 12 1/2 hours

• Four-year-old: 11 ½ to 12 hours

• Five-year-old: 11 hours

• Six-year-old: 10 3/4 to 11 hours

• Seven-year-old: 10 1/2 to 11 hours

• Eight-year-old: 10 1/4 to 10 3/4 hours

• Nine-year-old: 10 to 10 1/3 hours

• Ten through puberty: 9 3/4 to 10 hours

• Adolescent to adult: 9 ¼ hours

What do you think? Join the debate and share your opinion.

Inda Schaenen is a freelance writer and full-time mother of three children. She and her family live in St. Louis, Missouri.

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