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I was also thinking of that hypothesis as I read this. It rings very true to me. I believe that people who have trouble sleeping are often people who didn't l

by pdx 16y ago

I was also thinking of that hypothesis as I read this. It rings very true to me. I believe that people who have trouble sleeping are often people who didn't learn that much that day, and conversely, people who learn on a given day seem to need more sleep. I noticed this with my kids. A few months before they started learning to talk, say, at about 13 months, they seemed to need more sleep, even though they weren't exercising any more. This is the period that you can really begin to see them starting to "get it", about a lot of things in their world. Even though they aren't talking yet, they are beginning to understand what you are saying, so they are learning fast.

pbhjpbhj 16y ago
>A few months before they started learning to talk, say, at about 13 months, they seemed to need more sleep, even though they weren't exercising any more. 13 months has to be within a month or so of the median age for starting to walk (in my country at least, I know some start much younger) but you say your kids didn't increase their exercise; presumably then they were already walking at that age? We have 2 boys that have been treated almost identically, obviously there have been differences and only one of them is a first child. However they have so far had vastly different sleep patterns. The one who sleeps least appears to have developed fastest in linguistic terms. His brother, the slower, was certainly no slouch (and without wishing to boast) is pretty close to top of his class for reading despite being one of the youngest. I meet quite a lot of different parents & babies/toddlers from different backgrounds and find there are a lot of variations in sleep pattern - I don't have anywhere near enough contact with them to establish correlations with development and sleep pattern though. My kids could be outliers. I'm sure such studies must have been done?! tl;dr anecdotes are anecdotal and my experience doesn't bear out your hypothesis

by pdx 16y ago

pbhjpbhj 16y ago

>A few months before they started learning to talk, say, at about 13 months, they seemed to need more sleep, even though they weren't exercising any more. 13 months has to be within a month or so of the median age for starting to walk (in my country at least, I know some start much younger) but you say your kids didn't increase their exercise; presumably then they were already walking at that age? We have 2 boys that have been treated almost identically, obviously there have been differences and only one of them is a first child. However they have so far had vastly different sleep patterns. The one who sleeps least appears to have developed fastest in linguistic terms. His brother, the slower, was certainly no slouch (and without wishing to boast) is pretty close to top of his class for reading despite being one of the youngest. I meet quite a lot of different parents & babies/toddlers from different backgrounds and find there are a lot of variations in sleep pattern - I don't have anywhere near enough contact with them to establish correlations with development and sleep pattern though. My kids could be outliers. I'm sure such studies must have been done?! tl;dr anecdotes are anecdotal and my experience doesn't bear out your hypothesis