The Hot Weather Bedtime Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Kids

The heat might be making them seem sleepy, but sticking kids in bed earlier could backfire.

Parents editor at HuffPost UK

If your family’s sleep routine has gone straight out of the window these past few weeks, welcome to the (very tired) club.

In fact, a new survey by vitamin brand CapyChews found almost half of parents (48%) said their child’s sleep worsens during hot weather, a figure which rises to a mammoth 71% when it comes to parents of four-year-olds.

I can attest: sleep has been especially hard to come by in my household of late – the week where we also experienced high humidity and red health alerts was particularly tricky, with the little ’uns not falling asleep until almost 10pm most nights. (As you can imagine, the following mornings were super fun!)

Why is it so hard to sleep in hot weather?

The ideal room temperature for the human body to sleep is around 18-20°C, according to the Sleep Foundation.

But the recent bout of hot weather has taken bedrooms way past that – and if our bodies can’t cool down, it’s a........

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