You’re not alone if your children are always so excited for Santa’s annual visit that they struggle to sleep the night before.
And now a leading sleep therapist believes she has found the key to coaxing them into bed before the big day – but it goes against tradition.
Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, a British author who trained at King’s College London, claims serving up the highly anticipated turkey meal late on Christmas Eve would ‘induce sleepiness’.
Parents should ‘throw tradition out the window’ and roast the turkey a day early if they don’t want to resort to threats of Santa not visiting, she states.
Her comments follow recent research by Leeds University which discovered a third of British children are already exhausted.
They found 36 per cent of children aged between six and 11 getting less than seven hours sleep a night – significantly lower than the NHS-recommended 10 hours.
