Last week, we had a young caller, Thando, tell us that her bedtime is 11 pm. And it got us thinking...

Thando, are you going to bed at 11 pm because you're allowed to, or because nobody is telling you to go to bed earlier?

But seriously, parents, is 11 pm an acceptable bedtime for a child? Are we becoming too relaxed about our children's sleeping routines? And how much sleep are our kids actually getting on school nights?

CHAT TO DR ALISON BENTLEY: General practitioner and sleep disorder specialist in South Africa

Dr Bentley has been seeing patients with sleep problems, both adults and children, off and on over the last 30 years. She ran the first diagnostic sleep laboratory in South Africa from 1990 to 1998. After joining Wits University she was head of the Wits Dial.a.Bed Sleep Laboratory in the School of Physiology for 10 years.

She was the founding chairperson of the Sleep Society of South Africa in 1996 and served two terms representing Africa on the governing council of the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM). Her interest in research on sleep has seen her supervise more than 20 Masters and 3 PhD students on various topics.

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