While most children stop napping at around the age of two or three, a new study suggests that a daytime snooze may be beneficial to children right up until the age of five.
Researchers from Macquarie University in Australia found that daytime naps can benefit children’s ability to map letters to sounds – an important indicator of early reading skills.
‘Having a nap after learning might facilitate the capacity to utilize newly learned information in a new task,’ said Hua-Chen Wang, Lecturer in the School of Education at Macquarie University.
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