Sometimes having a conversation with children and telling them that you think napping is important or reading books with them about the importance of sleep can be enough to get children to nap.
The poll suggests that people understand the importance of sleep – it was ranked as the second most important activity for optimising health and wellbeing, behind avoiding smoking – but nevertheless fail to get enough.
Arianna is currently working on a book about the importance of sleep in our lives.
But the importance of sleep to our brain function may be even more fundamental.
Macbeth couldn't have summed up the importance of sleep any better.
Professor Russell Foster, a neuroscientist, believes we are being "supremely arrogant" by ignoring the importance of sleep.
While we are finally paying attention to the importance of sleep, the need for dark is still mostly ignored.
As part of the campaign, health officials plan to distribute to schools educational and promotional materials, including games and puzzles, that emphasize the importance of sleep.
Arianna Huffington has been going on about the importance of sleep for some time, and now Gwyneth Paltrow is at it.
Days before the final game Andre Iguodala spoke at Stanford with Arianna Huffington about the importance of sleep for maximum performance.
Other articles look at the proposal to tax sugary products and the importance of sleep when it comes to warding off diabetes and other illnesses.
