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Understanding healthy sleep

Sleep is essential for children’s growth, learning, development, mood and immunity.
 

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Understanding healthy sleep for children

Good quality sleep is crucial for your child’s growth, development, and learning. 

While they sleep, their brains and bodies work hard to recover and prepare for the day ahead. When children get enough sleep, they are generally happier, more energetic, and in a better headspace to focus and learn.

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Healthy sleep for children
  • Understanding healthy sleep
    • Benefits of good sleep
    • Understanding the sleep cycle
    • How sleep is regulated
    • Signs of a tired child
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Last updated Wednesday 16 July 2025

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network acknowledges that our facilities are built on the lands of the Bidjigal, Cammeraygal, Burramattagal, Cabrogal, Wangal, and Woddi Woddi. Our services extend across the lands now known as New South Wales. 

Aboriginal people believe these lands hold the ancestral spirits of those who have come and gone before them.

We acknowledge this is, was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.


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