When babies sleep well, they organize emotions and learn better. Sleep deprivation affects how children process feelings and retain information. The speakers discuss why modern life makes healthy sleep routines hard for kids and adults alike.
The ideal world is a quiet environment with the right temperature and ideal lighting. But in the real world, it's another child in the same house, making noise, the door slamming, adults talking about construction work and so on. In other words, dealing with all of this. Yes, that's the point. There are some studies, doctor, that show that sleep deprivation has more consequences for certain ages. For example, Those in their 30s will have this consequence, as will those in their 40s.
There are some isolated studies for each population. But I say that for children, sleep is perhaps the most important sleep phase in life. Because we have to see the brain of a baby, a child, as a completely unpaved path. Yum.
But it's as if a forest had opened up, several small, short paths, and you need to pave these paths, widen them. So it's a brain eager for knowledge all the time. And when do we have the realization of all the learning from external stimuli that they have had during sleep? So this is more than well founded. Nowadays there are even studies showing that children in the same school who study in the morning and children who study in the afternoon have different performances. Children who study in the afternoon perform better than children who study in the morning. Because this is a population that needs more sleep than an adult. They end up waking up earlier than they should. So the only thing that differs between one population and another is really the sleep routine. So there's one thing, one thing, there's no bias against it. It's really sleep that's affected. Then there's also the social issue of our daily lives. The mother needs to be at work, she has to drop the child off at school. How will she spend the afternoon? So there are several things to be discussed, but school hours are something we always see, especially at conferences, being discussed. Speaking of which, I remember when the Brazilian Sleep association, years ago, I don't know how it is now, in 2025, was trying to change this student entry, right? From the morning shift to 7:00am yeah. So for the student to enter at 7, they had to wake up at least at 5:36am and if they didn't go to bed early, we have a problem, right? I'm a jaguar when it comes to Angelina's sleep. A jaguar. And then when you live with other people, right? Even grandparents and friends who don't say anything, mean anything. But oh no, it's just one day, not just on Saturday, just at this fair. So my ideal world is when she can go to sleep at 7:00am, you know, and we go to sleep at 10:00am for me, sleep is non negotiable. I try to bring this respect to her sleep.
Yeah, you.
No. In other words, I'm very.
No, you're doing it completely right. That's right. And you, thank God, can't do that. Right. What I'm saying, and we see it a lot, is for example, that father who works all day, arrives and leaves, finishes his shift late in the afternoon and gets home at 8pm he wants to spend some time with his child. This child will sleep for nine or ten hours and has to wake up for five. Imagine a child sleeping seven hours a night. It's very little. So like I said, it's something. It's a much deeper discussion than simply, look, the child has to sleep this much. We have to change the school schedule. It's not possible, right? Unfortunately, that's what needs to be discussed. But it's still far from being plausible. Okay, there's a complete solution.
Just to change the subject, but I wanted to close this part of it. If you can't have a support network, what can I as an adult do? So if I'm trying to improve my child's sleep, I already know that they sleep better or I sleep better, but I still can't change theirs. What can I as an adult do with myself? And then I'm talking about stimulants, coffee, energy drinks and everything else.
Okay, so you've also established a routine for yourself, not just for the child. Right?
Good.
So sleep doesn't take any nonsense either. So the issue of stimulants is very individualized. For example. Right? Caffeine isn't for everyone. Drinking coffee at 2, 3 or 4pm Will affect sleep later on. Some people are less sensitive, others are more sensitive. Right. But when we start talking about sleep hygiene, a perfect and ideal world, it's really about getting home at night, dimming the lights a little more, starting a more relaxing routine, not taking work, home screens. Right? Look, cell phone. Here.
Take a closer look. Luana. Here, look. Little finger on the phone. Look, little nervous finger. Then you say, oh, I can't turn it off. I can't sleep.
The baby's asleep. People go to bed, try to relax and sleep. Don't spend hours on Instagram. And this is a time when people usually want to. They've often left the child in bed. Now it's time to check Instagram or work, do something. So it's something that, if possible, has to be seen and controlled. Right?
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