Forget sleep stickers — these are the most effective ways of getting your kids to sleep

Depending on age, children require between 9 and 16 hours of sleep a night (though the higher end of that scale is for babies under a year old). But ensuring that they consistently get as much as they need isn’t always an easy task, as most parents can attest to.

The percentage of children between 4 months to 14 years getting insufficient sleep varies between 25% to 50% depending on the US state, while National Health Service (NHS) statistics showed that when looking at a single week, 37.8% of children…