Do children or adults need more sleep?

Do children or adults need more sleep?

Chris Idzikowski (Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: Why do some people need more sleep than others?; Do children or adults need more sleep?; Do elderly people need more sleep? and more...

Babies and children sleep more than adults do. And in fact we may well be born into the world in asleep and it's a rude shock when get in. The fact that babies and children sleep more than adults has been used as evidence that sleep has a restorative, recovery, or growth function.