DO GIRLS SLEEP ENOUGH?
Parents should ring the curfew for the modern schoolgirl—she needs more sleep. This is tlie opinion expressed by headmistresses to a London newspaper representative reci-nt.lv. Miss E. M. Edghill, headmistress of St. Felix School, Southwold, said:— The strain of modern life is such that schoolgirls require a maximum of sleep. At mv school girls between 13 and 16 are in bed by '1 p.m. and the older girls retire at 9.30. I consider those reasonable hours, and if parents of day school children would adhere to them the children would be better physically and mentally. Miss Charlotte Cowdroy, principal of Crouch End High School for Girls, said that many day girls did not get enough sleep. >he continued: Sometimes it is because parents are a little vain, and keep them up so as to sh«w them off to visitors. Girls stay up late, sometimes because they have a great deal of homework. In some cases this is partly the fault of the parents, who want them to pass the matriculation examination as soon as possible so that they may be able to start work. Children of school age want 9 to 10 hours sleep. I think children between the ages of five and eight should go to bed at 6.30; from eight to 12, at 7.30; and from 12 to 16, between 8.30 and 9. A medical correspondent agreed that children often do not have enough sleep, lie said : '"A child of 16 should have 10 hours sleep if leading a healthy life — working and playing hard. "Children .studying for examinations want, plenty of sleep, as, broadly speaking, brain workers require more sleep than manual workers."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21101, 8 February 1932, Page 3
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