‘Don’t study immediately after returning from school’
Dr Mazen Abou Chaaban, consultant paediatrician and paediatric nephrologist at Emirates Specialty Hospital in Dubai, said students should not study immediately after returning from school as they need to rest their brain. Also, children should ideally be in bed by 9pm so that they will have enough sleep before waking up early for school the following morning.
A child who is still awake until 11.30pm, for example, doing homework means he or she will fall asleep by midnight or so, but have to wake up by, say, 6am. This creates “a vicious cycle of exertion and absent-mindedness”. The student’s perception during school will be impaired and the body will be exhausted. This will impair the healthy growth and development of the child, Dr Chaaban added.
The hormonal activity of the brain for the benefit of different organs of the body will be impaired as there is not enough sleep. ■