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Feeling Blue…Well It’s Good For Sleep!

Lisa Artis — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:57:04 +0000

If you want a good night’s sleep, apparently all you need to do is paint your bedroom! According to a new survey those with blue painted bedrooms tend to get the best rest – nearly eight hours a night – and wake feeling happy and positive. Green and yellow colours also fare well with those [...]

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Are Parents Failing To Get Their Kids ‘School Ready’?

Lisa Artis — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:02 +0000

Today it was announced that the National Association of Head Teachers, with support from the Government, are launching a set of guidelines* for families across Britain following warnings that rising numbers of children aged four upwards are no longer ‘school ready’. Parents will be handed leaflets reminding them to put their kids to bed on [...]

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Sleep Myths: Fact or Fiction

Lisa Artis — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:52:33 +0000

If you want to get more sleep, then it’s time to separate the fact from the fiction and bust some of the more common sleep myths. The reality is we are often the biggest culprits of our own sleep deprivation. We find it hard to break bad habits and buy into sleep myths that hinder [...]

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Doubles: The New Singles Club

Lisa Artis — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:12:27 +0000

It’s official! Double beds are the new ‘singles’ among Britain’s solo sleepers. With the news that sales of single beds are down by nine per cent in the past four years while those of doubles are up, The Sleep Council says the Race for Space in bigger beds can only be good news for the [...]

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Double Beds New ‘Must Have’ For Kids?

Lisa Artis — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:01:51 +0000

Latest market research says that sales of the single bed have fallen in the past four years. So what you may say? But did you also know sales of children’s double bedding have increased? According to recent reports while single beds for children are still more common, children are moving to double beds as part [...]

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Do You Check Your Social Media When You Can’t Sleep? Don’t!

Lisa Artis — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:07:53 +0000

If you do a search for ‘can’t sleep’ on Twitter, you will find numerous updates from people who are struggling to get that elusive good night’s sleep. Same with Facebook. If I check my news feed on a morning the number of friends who post at some unearthly hour in the night is bewildering. And [...]

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Bedroom Tax: It’s Not Just Black Or White

Lisa Artis — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:28:13 +0000

Here at The Sleep Council we’ve been musing over the government’s bedroom tax policy for some time now. While we understand that the government might see the bedroom tax as a practical solution to the social housing shortage, we are left wondering about the unfortunate people who use their spare room for a variety of [...]

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How British Summer Time Affects Sleep

Lisa Artis — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:29:17 +0000

This weekend the clocks go forward and British Summer Time begins. Now normally I love this time of year (even if I do lose that extra hour of sleep) but this year with the abundance of snow in situ and plummeting temperatures, I’m not quite ready to lose my 60 minutes of kip in a [...]

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Sleep Council Backs Call For Parents To Teach Sleep

Lisa Artis — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:47:17 +0000

It’s been called ‘an unspoken public health crisis’ and as the problem of children and sleep comes under scrutiny on Channel 4’s new Bedtime Live show, The Sleep Council has joined the call for parents to teach their children how to get a good night’s sleep. Despite the fact that seven to 14-year-olds still need [...]

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Children’s Sleep On Bedtime Live

Lisa Artis — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:44:37 +0000

So who watched Channel 4’s Bedtime Live this week? I watched it with avid interest – as someone who is involved in sleep but is also a parent of two young children. I was particularly horrified with the 14 year old twin boys – Callum and Lewis – who only got three to six hours [...]

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