Tiring Children

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

The injury done to children, and more especially to delicate children, by overfatigue, is not sufficiently recognized by many mothers and nurses.

Too long walks, games that call for too much exertion, which must be kept up until the end, too late hours for going to bed, or too early hours for getting up, are all causes — every-day causes — of overfatigue.

Now, mark this, fatigue from work or play, or bodily exercise of any sort, is the reverse of injurious to those who are physically strong. If we are in good health and vigorous, it does us no harm to go to our beds tired at night.

We sleep all the better for it, and rise refreshed in the morning. To be overtired, however — so tired that one can not sleep — is bad for any one. — Selected.