Hospitals might not be a fun place at all to be at, but I would suppose that you can call it a necessary part of life, especially since this is the place to go to whenever you are assaulted by an illness that a simple dose of aspirin is unable to help. The Evelina Children’s Hospital in London has come up with a free app that is touted to improve children’s sleep, where it is hoped that this particular app will be able to assist the 2 million parents in the UK who are concerned about their child’s sleep.
In turn, this app will also, fingers crossed, ease pressure on the NHS. Known as the Kids Sleep Doctor app, it will offer parents tailored advice, including dealing with issues of night terrors or up-all-night teens, depending on their sleeping patterns. Since experts have long maintained that good sleep was vital for a child’s development and behavior, chances are if this app could do the job well, it would also do away with the need to keep in touch with a GP.
This particular app would offer personalized advice to parents of children who are 16 or younger, in order to handle the various sleeping problems which come up at different ages. Initial advice would kick off after one enters details concerning bedtimes, as to where the child falls asleep, in addition to the amount of screen time that one can have, not to mention caffeinated drinks consumption. It will take 5 days of recording a child’s sleep habits, before the full personalized service enters the fray.