The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-02
Your Children
By Olive Roberts Baxto@

London-why are 50 many chil< dren tired in the morning? On. yess they are all right after they have. been out of bed fifteen minutes a so, but to pull them out of thG sheets is just one ordeal bhsx mother never gets used to. They protested that they were not . bit tired CT sleepy last night when sfsh finally shooed them off upstaiTs, This morning. Tommy, after nine hours sleep, could scarcely be shaken awake. And Kitty was al- most as bad. What happened in the meantime to reduce them to such a pulp of drugged helpIess- nessP Sleep is supposed to refresh.
 There are several answers to this, I think. One is nervousness. Not the nervousness of maturity, result- ing from worries, and responsibili- ties and what not, but strain that comes of excitement.
 Mind Sometimes Overactive It takes the high-strung, easilys excited child longer to rest than 1t does the easy-going phlegmatic one. The "lazy" child is a better rested" than his energetic brotfl- CT. Walter, the deliberate one, will fall asleep at once, while Tommy will either lie and think, lie and tosg, or get up and get five drinks of water. Maybe he will sneak 2 book to bed. At any rate, in various ways he is GETTING HIS MIND READY for sleep. Sometimes this takes hours.
 The conscious mind of the ner- vously active child is slow to give up to its hold on him. Until he is completely relaxed, sleep won't come. It is lost time. Tommy is not actually getting his quota of real sleep at all.
 Another reason for this morn. drowsiness is auto-intoxicetior. Children, as well as adults, can generate certain pois0ns in their systems. from a mistake in diet, or improper elimination. Or from some source Of infection. Wheb these self-generated poisons are absorbed into the blood SstEeain durs Ing sleep, there is a tendency to 60 on sleeping indefinitely, V # KlLty, for example, ts not quite as well as she might be, l would lay her morning tardiDegs to something Of the sort She might seem to be | ..asfaafiu uslAA amakA and alert duIjng the dsy, and 20 te the sees ond sle goes 70 bed, But activity tH some way keeps peisons fFem beine absorbed io any great degree elunbeT eIvsg e better elleIlee, u Iktity gives you Rny reason la 1lnk she Is not loo wei, and sleeps be- yeDd TaaAog, ! illlnk the ilysteFy needs clearing ID by . deel4y, F
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