Here’s another reason why you should encourage your baby to nap, not just because you need some time to recuperate after a busy day of taking care of your child.
A new study shows that naps help babies’ brains retain information. Researchers at the University of Arizona in Tuscon studied 48 infants and found that babies who nap during the day show evidence of abstract learning, which is “the ability to detect a general pattern contained in new information.”
Lynn Nadel, a professor in the department of psychology at the University believes that ensuring that your babies get enough sleep is as important as other activities such as talking and reading to them.
So get your babies to nap daily…it’s good for them, and good for you, too.
How often does your baby nap? Do you find that naptime helps babies remember new information?
Naptime Helps Babies Remember New Things [Yahoo!]
