Sleep Is for Everyone

SLEEP is fop everyone

When a horse goes to sleep, its eyelids go down. When a chicken goes to sleep, its eyelidsgo up. When a snake sleeps, its eyes stayopen. Snakes have no eyelids. When you go to sleep, which way do your eyelids go?

An elephant can sleep standing up. A pigeon sits down when it sleeps. Pigs liedown to sleep. So do dogs. So do you. Sometimes dogs curl up. So do cats. Cows don't. Do you?

Like birds and animals, people have to sleep. Some people sleep more than others. Jonathanis only six weeks old. He sleeps most of the time. He only wakes up when he wants to eat-orhave his diaper changed.

Caroline is two years old. She goes to bed right after her dinner. She sleepsall night, twelve hours or more. She takes a napin the afternoon, too. When Caroline doesn't get hernap, she is cranky. She cries. She throwsthings. But the next morning she feels fine—aftershe's had a good night's sleep.

When people are little, they are growing, and they need a lotof sleep. As they grow bigger and older, they need less sleep. Schoolchildren need to sleep about ten to twelve hours a night. Most grown-ups need only seven or eight hours. Butbabies, children, and grown-ups—all of them need tohave their sleep.