Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night Going-To-Bed Book, The Sleep Better!: A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children With Special Needs Good Nights : The Happy Parents' Guide to the Family Bed (and a Peaceful Night's Sleep!) A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America Sleeping Through the Night : How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep

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• Sleep, Children, Sleep. ...
• Sleep provides nourishment for the next day physically, emotionally and spiritually. Paying special attention to how we send our children into their sleep and receive them back in the morning can bring them health giving forces for life. ...
• This rules out television and radios! Children are especially sensitive and more open to impressions when going to sleep and upon waking. Therefore a great responsibility rests on parents and teachers to create calm moods and meaningful rituals with our children at these times of day. Children and adults alike are enriched and nourished by such time spent together. ...
• Many children today are sleep deprived. ... There are all sorts of disturbances which can prevent children from having a truly restful sleep. ...
• The act of ordering before sleep helps the child develop self-discipline and a caring attitude for their environment, home and classroom. ...
• Water play can be a joy-filled and important time for children. ...
• When children are young, they love to hear stories told from memory, and often the same one told night after night! A story told from memory can allow the child to create their own inner pictures, rather than receiving fixed ones from a book. As children grow older they enjoy the longer, more involved chapter stories. ...
• Singing lullabies with your child can help them relax peacefully into sleep. You will find over time, that you will be inspired and may remember lullabies from your own childhood, You may find that you even begin to create new ones which your children will especially love and ask for again and again! I had a friend who sang the same good night song to her son for eighteen years until he left home! He would still ask for it in his late teenage years! Amazing!  .
• Just as a child benefits from meaningful ritual before going to sleep, so do they benefit from a gentle waking. Find ways in your home and classroom to awaken the children, by singing or playing a soft instrument. ... It is also so for the children. ...

• Check out these helpful sleep pages on the web!.
• Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs, Fourth Edition.
• Sleep Problems.
• Chapter 2 of Sleep Better! A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children with Special Needs, by V. ...
• O sleep! O gentle sleep! / Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down / And steep my senses in forgetfulness?.
• King Henry IV's longing for sleep seems at odds with modern-day society's desire to wring the most out of a day. Many of us are trying to do more with less sleep. Many more people yearn to sleep better, but, for a variety of reasons, they cannot. Some have difficulty falling asleep or have their sleep disturbed frequently throughout the night. Others feel tired even after what seems to be a full night's sleep. Still others may encounter a number of abnormal sleep experiences, such as frequent and disturbing nightmares, sleep terrors (which at first resemble nightmares but are a very different sleep disturbance), sleepwalking, or sleeptalking. This chapter addresses the many ways in which sleep can be disrupted, along with what is known about the causes of these problems.
• How Common Are Sleep Problems?.
• You may be surprised to learn that as many as one of every four otherwise healthy adults experiences significant problems with sleep. At the same time, a similar ratio of children experience sleep problems. What is most alarming is that sleep problems seem to occur more often in people with special needs. As if life were not complicated enough, adding a sleep problem on top of all of the other difficulties can make getting through each day a greater challenge for people with special needs as well as for their families and friends.

• Helping You and Your Child Get a Good Night's Sleep.
• " Truer words have ne'er been spoken, particularly by parents of children with disabilities. While anyone might find a night of restful sleep elusive, it can be a unique challenge for children with disabilities, and their families.
• The kinds of stimulation provided at school during the day influence a student's ability to sleep at night, and a sleepy student has difficulty learning. A child's sleep problem is everyone's problem.
• What Is Sleep?.
• Identifying some common facts about sleep will help distinguish general characteristics that most people experience from problems unique to children with disabilities.
• The function of sleep is controversial. Some people believe sleep is an internally controlled period of non-responding, during a phase of the circadian cycle, that promotes energy conservation. Others think sleep is a restorative or balancing process that occurs after energy consumption. Everyone agrees that sleep is a state of consciousness. ...
• Sleep occurs in repeating 70 to 100 minute cycles of two states, REM and nonREM. ... This state (in 4 stages from drowsy to deep sleep) may serve a restorative function, and is most typically identified as sleep. ...
• Circadian cycles are repeating biological cycles approximately 25 hours long, in which sleep, waking, alertness, activity, rest, changes in body temperature, hormone release and many other body functions take place. ... Chronically delayed sleep can lead to reversal of a person's daily schedule. ...
• Wakings and arousals, typically 3 to 7 per night, are normal for children and adults. ... Problems can arise when a person has difficulty going back to sleep after an arousal. ...

• Children sleep huddled together in corners of unheated shacks trying to keep warm.
• The devastating affects of poverty are destroying the lives of children all around the world. Two of every twelve children under the age of 18 in the US alone live in poverty. ... Children sleep huddled together in corners of unheated shacks trying to keep warm. ... Many of these innocent children turn to drug and alcohol abuse, premarital sex or gang participation, taking the cycle of poverty into the next generation. ...
• Children's Hunger Fund had a very impactful year. ...
• This accounts for 38% of the food, clothing and relief supplies Children's Hunger Fund distributed in 2001. ...
• This year Children's Hunger Fund shipped 35 sea containers of relief aid to Central and South America - valued at $5,968,945. ...
• Our work in Africa has focused on support of feeding programs to famine victims and care for children in orphanages. ...
• CHF is committed to supporting children in orphanages throughout Eastern Europe. ... A CHF supported program called Family 2 Family supports parents with Care packages who have taken their children out of state run institutions to raise them at home.
• Unemployment is a major issue as many parents abandon their children to find work. ...
• It is not uncommon for there to be 8-10 children living in a one bedroom shanty where they burn a fire on the floor to keep warm. ...

• Sleep Problems in Children and Teens.
• Children with healthy sleep patterns function better and are less prone to behavioral problems and moodiness. As parents, we need to teach our children the techniques of good sleep habits that will last a lifetime.
• A child with a sleep problem is not alone - it affects the entire family. We have all experienced disturbed sleep due to normal infant feeding patterns, teething and illness. However, it is important to identify what is normal sleep for children.
• Newborns average 16 to 18 hours of sleep a day, spread out in five sleep episodes, and learn night is "sleep time" and day is "wake time. " As the baby grows, sleep time becomes less and up time is more. Healthy sleep patterns start in infancy.
• Between the ages of one to three, bedtime crying and middle-of-the-night tearful awakenings are among the most common problems in children's sleep. A natural parental instinct is to rock the child to sleep or to bring the child into their bed. ...
• By the ages of 6 to 12, sleep problems in early childhood usually subside and the child sleeps soundly. ... There is no set number of hours of sleep that is best for everyone and some children, like adults, need less sleep than others. ...
• Between the ages of 16 and 20, children experience the most rapid body growth and development after infancy. Studies show that teenagers need to sleep an hour more each day than in the pre-teen years. If permitted, a teenager would average about nine hours of sleep a night, but usually sleep one or two hours less. ...

• Children with ADHD: Too Much Energy to Sleep .
• Several sleep problems have been identified as being common among children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including delayed sleep onset, frequent nighttime awakening and feeling tired upon awakening. ...
• In fact, at one time sleep disturbance was listed as one of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD. 4 Therefore, it's important for sleep professionals to understand the factors that contribute to poor sleep in this patient population. ...
• Because sleep problems are associated with a variety of psychiatric disorders (e. ... , anxiety, depression) it may be that some of the sleep problems experienced by children with ADHD are simply a function of having a psychiatric disorder. It could also be that some aspects of sleep are specific to ADHD. In addition, sleep difficulties may be a consequence of treatment with stimulant medications, such as methylphenidate, that have a frequently reported side effect of insomnia. ...
• Sleep Survey The bulk of the research on the association between childhood ADHD and sleep disturbance is derived from parent-report data. A recent parent-report survey revealed that moderate to severe sleep problems occur at least weekly in 19 percent of children with ADHD. 6 Parents frequently reported that their children have too much energy to fall asleep or require much less sleep than their same-age peers. ...
• â ¢ 61 percent of children with ADHD taking stimulant medication experienced insomnia at least one night per week compared to 32 percent of children with ADHD not taking stimulant medication .
• â ¢ frequent nighttime awakening was a weekly problem in 25 percent of children with ADHD on stimulant medication compared to only 9 percent of unmedicated children with ADHD .
• â ¢ 56 percent of children with ADHD taking stimulant medication were observed to be tired during the day compared to 34 percent of children with ADHD who were not taking stimulant medication. ...
• Thus, sleep disturbances appear to be quite prevalent among children with ADHD, particularly when stimulant medications are being used. ...
• Objective Measures The above studies are based solely on parents' subjective impressions of their children's sleep difficulties and may be subject to rater bias. Accordingly, a variety of efforts have been made to obtain more objective measures of children's sleep. ...

• Sleep Problems in Childhood (Article) - Top.
• Sleep problems are common in childhood. ... , the parasomnias, sleep apnea and narcolepsy) and problems that are behavioral in origin and have normal polysomnography. The parasomnias--sleep terrors, somnambulism and enuresis--appear to be related to central nervous system immaturity and are often outgrown. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is frequently missed in children and can often be cured through surgery. Behavioral sleep problems may be overcome after parents make interventions. ...
• Sleep behaviors are among the most common concerns that parents of young children bring to their physicians. ... Sleep disorders in children, if confirmed by reproducible findings in a sleep laboratory, are not appreciably different from those occurring in adults. However, sleep problems, defined as a sleep pattern that is unsatisfactory to the parents, child or physician, are far more common.
• Defining disordered sleep behavior is difficult because of important differences in sleep patterns that occur at different developmental stages. ... To make the definition of sleep problems even more difficult, families vary greatly in their tolerance of their children's sleeping habits; what one family finds problematic, another family takes as a matter of course.
• Helping a family resolve a child's sleep problem is satisfying for a family physician and worth the time spent taking a careful history.
• Normal Sleep in Children.
• Early-infant sleep is quite different from the sleep of adults. Infants younger than six months spend 50 percent of their sleep time in active rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, compared with 20 percent in adults. Infants enter sleep through an initial active REM stage, in contrast to adults, who don't commonly enter REM sleep until 90 minutes into the sleep cycle. Active REM emerges more often during a sleep cycle in infants, resulting in shorter sleep cycles. Until six months of age, quiet REM (also known as quiet or indeterminate sleep) cannot be subdivided into the four electroencephalographic (EEG) stages known in the mature sleep pattern.

• Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century - a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk, and a man who hated women, children and dogs, unless they were the wrong sort of women. ...
• Fields later appeared in talking feature films and short subjects, including the 1934 gem It's a Gift, which contained his stage sketch about trying to sleep on the back porch in the midst of nagging family and noisy neighbors. ...

• Solving Children's Sleep Problems: A Step by Step Guide for Parents  .
• Buy Solving Children's Sleep Problems: A Step by Step Guide for. ... with Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: A Practical and. ...
• Sleep Better!: Guide to Improving Sleep for Children with Special Needs; Paperback ~ V. ...
• Baby and Toddler Sleep Program: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night; Paperback ~ John Pearce, Jane Bidder .
• Health for All Children; Paperback ~ David Hall, David Elliman .
• The New Baby and Toddler Sleep Programme: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night (Positive Parenting); Paperback ~ John Pearce, et al Explore similar items. ...
• "Sleep problems can be very disruptive for everyone in the family. ... Dr Lyn Quine is a world authority on childrens sleep problems and she has successfully translated years of research and clinical experience into an easy-to-read guide, full of information and practical help. ...
• Gregory Stores, Park Hospital for Children, University of Oxford.
• "A comprehensive and practical guide which enables parents to understand their child's sleep pattern and to solve most common childhood sleep problems by choosing from a range of clearly explained and easy to follow techniques. ...
• I used the book again for a problem with my other child, who just did not want to go to sleep. ...

• Children Sleep Through Smoke Alarms .
• Many children are such sound sleepers that they wouldn't be awakened by the blaring sound of home smoke alarms, according to a research panel convened by Underwriters Laboratories (UL).
• In a series of experiments conducted in Milwaukee and Dallas by UL and local television stations, some children failed to be awakened after eight minutes of the home alarms blaring, reports the Associated Press. ...
• Experts say the findings suggest that more than traditional smoke alarms may be needed to ensure children's safety. ...
• Of those deaths, nearly one-quarter were children under age 15.
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• Sleep Tips.
• Too much activity close to bedtime can keep children awake.
• Avoid feeding children big meals close to bedtime.
• Avoid giving children anything with caffeine less than six hours before bedtime.
• Healthy Sleep.
• Sleep Quiz.
• Sleep Tips.
• Sleep Diary.
• Why Sleep Is Important.
• Sleep Disorders.

• Helping Children Sleep.
• Some components of the routine might be having a snack (not sugar or chocolate), being read a story, washing up or taking a bath (dry the child slowly with deep pressure strokes), kissing each family member goodnight, selecting a soft toy with which to sleep, etc.
• In this way, each adult knows that s/he will get a good night's sleep at a minimum of every other night and that both adults will not be up every night.
• Some families report that a small, green light seemed to induce sleep for their child. ...
• A book that might be helpful is called, Sleep Better! A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children with Special Needs, by V. ...

• Talk to children while they sleep --.
• So, what is all this about talking to children while they sleep?.
•   There are certainly a lot of children and even adults who might benefit from the practice.
• While CHILDREN Sleep.

• Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.
• Is My Child Overtired?: The Sleep Solution for Raising Happier, Healthier Children .
• Keys to Children's Sleep Problems.
• Night Terrors: Sleep Disorders in Preschoolers.
• They are most commonly seen in children who are between 3 and 5 years old. ...   Most children grow out of them. Two to 3% of all children will experience episodes of night terrors. By the time they reach school age, most of these children will have outgrown these generally harmless events.
• Night Terrors occur within a couple of hours of falling sleep.   This is the non REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep.   During this phase of sleeping the sleep is not deep but the child is quiet and the body is settling down. ...   Children fall back asleep after the terror has passed. ...
•   Being overtired and not getting sufficient sleep can bring on night terrors. ...   Also children and families who have a history of bed wetting, sleep walking, night mares and/or talking in their sleep may be more predisposed to night terrors. ...
• Prompted awakenings 15 minutes before night terrors begin, for seven consecutive nights, has been successful in eliminating the episodes in 90 percent of children. ...   Keep a sleep journal for your child, noting what she has eaten before bed, any new activities in her life and the potential for them to be stressful TO her, include conversations with your child about how she is feeling and what may be bothering her.

• Children's Sleep Quiz.
• Are your kids getting a good night's sleep?.
• Sleep problems, including trouble getting to sleep and waking up at night, are common in children and frustrating for parents. Take our Children's Sleep Quiz to see if you know as much as you should about your child's sleep .
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• 2 How much sleep does a 2 year old usually need?.
• 3 How much sleep does a 5 year old need?.
• 4 How much sleep does a 9 year old need?.
• 5 How much sleep does a 14 year old need?.
• 9 Not getting enough sleep at night can cause children to.
• 12 Bruxism refers to children that.
• a) A pediatrician who has helped millions of parents to get their children to sleep through the night.
• c) The nations leading authority on children's sleep problems.
• 15 Children with obstructive sleep apnea usually.
• a) want to sleep in their parent's bed.
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• Soooo I decided to listen to all of those so-called sleep experts and put DD to bed last night as soon as she showed the signs of being tired (this was at 6:30, asleep by 6:45pm). ...
• (I know, she should sleep through the night at 13 months, right? Yeah, right!) .
• Siobhan (12/28/02)I'm 13 months old today! Maybe I'll sleep through the night when I'm 2. ...
• So total up 2 hours of sleep for me last night!.
• Basically, if she goes to bed an hour later, she will sleep in about 30 minutes later in the morning. If I do that for a couple of days, she miserable because she's short on sleep but I have done it to get another 30 minutes in the morning.
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• Psychiatric Medication for Children and Adolescents Part I: How Medications Are Used .
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• Tips For Helping Children Sleep In Their Own Beds.
• It also works well to teach children to sleep in their own beds. Here are some tips on how to help children sleep in their own beds: .
• It does not work well to tell children to sleep in their bed and then relent when they act up. ...
• At some level, your child knows why she doesn't want to sleep in her own bed, even if she isn't able to articulate what she is feeling. ...
• o Give her a stuffed animal as big as she is to sleep with. ...
• If the primary reason your child wants to sleep with you is night time fears, you should be able to switch her into her own bed as soon as she has the tools to cope with her fears.
• The first few nights she might sleep on the floor beside your bed. ...
• Learning To Fall Back To Sleep.
• Sleep and the Family Bed.
• When Baby Won't Go To Sleep On Her Own.
• Bruxism - Helping Children Who Grind Their Teeth At Night.
• Building Sleep Habits.
• Change in Sleep Patterns.
• Separation Anxiety and Sleep Struggles.
• Sleep Disorders in Infants and Toddlers.

• Children suffer more frequent nightmares than their parents and, prior to the age of six, nightmares are especially common. ... There is even speculation among specialists in child development that the sleep disturbances of infants in the first year of life may be wordless nightmares. Nightmares diminish as children grow older, master their fears, and gain more control over their world. A long-term study of 252 children showed that five to ten percent of seven- and eight-year-old children had nightmares once a week. By the time children in the study were between eleven and fourteen, disturbing dreams were infrequent, especially for boys. ... For children, this could occur in response to such events as entering school, moving to a new neighborhood or living through a divorce or remarriage. A good working assumption is that many nightmares in children are reactions to upsetting events, situations and relationships. ... Gina agreed and taking the dream at face value, she suggested that they spray some air freshener before he goes back to sleep. ...
• For example, children of divorce frequently dream that their parents have reunited; abuse survivors are often victims or perpetrators of violence in their dreams; and adopted children intermittently dream of their birth parents. ... STAGES OF RESOLUTION IN RECURRING DREAMS Three stages of resolution can be identified in children's nightmares. ...
• In some cases, children spontaneously resolve a recurring nightmare as the formerly distressing situations which caused the nightmares get worked out in the child's real life. ... As children mature emotionally and intellectually, they gain increasing control over their childhood fears and feel more confident in their ability to solve problems and handle situations independently. ... In order to soothe the lingering terror and banish the demons of the night, you must learn the Four R's that spell nightmare relief for your children. ... Reassurance is the first and most important dimension of remedying children's nightmares. ... Even with young children, rescripting is most effective when it is a collaborative process of brainstorming together. ... Like many children her age and older, Zoe did not want to discuss other fears connected to her recent fire dream except to say that she had the dream after watching a violent movie at a friend's house. ... Even chronic nightmare sufferers, both adults and children, have found relief from relatively simple treatments and techniques. ... Ann Sayre Wiseman, author of Nightmare Help warns that suggesting the murder or destruction of a dream foe may subtly encourage violent solutions to life problems and reinforce a tendency that children are already overexposed to through television, movies, news and violence in our society. ... Through the process of exploring, brainstorming, and rehearsing metaphoric solutions to their children's nightmares, parents begin to feel more secure in linking dream symbols to the current events and relationships in their child's waking world. ...

• Sleeping Beauty is a classic children's story, first written down during the 17th century by Charles Perrault. ...
• A good fairy, though unable to reverse the spell, alters its effect so that the princess, instead of dying, will sleep until awakened by her true love's kiss. The witch's curse is fulfilled, and the princess and everyone in the castle goes to sleep. ...

• The Sleep Book for Tired Parents: Help for Solving Children's Sleep Problems.
• Buy The Sleep Book for Tired Parents: Help for Solving. ... with The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help You. ...
• The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley (Author) .
• "Exercises to help parents detect a child's problem in going to sleep and to devise an effective strategy are given. ...
• If you are not sure where to go and what styles of "sleep training" you are wanting to try. ...
• The Sleep Book For Tired Parents, January 7, 2002 .
• It was becoming obvious that all three of us needed more sleep. ...
• This book offers several choices to sleep training and does not make you feel like a bad parent if you modify a method to fit your needs. By the fifth night of following one of the methods our son was putting himself to sleep for 4-6 hours for the first time at night, in his crib. And all this with limited crying on all our parts!! He even is beginning to put himself to sleep for naps in his crib too. ...
• Out of all of the current resources for families regarding infant sleep issues, this is the one that I recommend most highly! .
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• Kids' Sleep Problems Tied to Behavior Problems.
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• An Overview of Sleep Behavior Disturbances in Children .
• Problems with sleep behaviors are commonly seen in children. Sleep is of primary importance at all stages of human development, and in the newborn, is the primary activity other than eating. Childhood sleep disturbances affect not only the child but also the whole family. ... Sifting through the enormous amount of material, approaches, and opinions about kids' sleep can be daunting for parents. There is not one correct way to deal with your child in regard to sleep. ... I will delineate here some general principles and guidelines that I have found to be helpful for parents in making choices about how to handle their child's sleep. I will also discuss some of the most common childhood sleep disturbances and some of their treatments. ...
• Development of Sleep .
• When addressing difficulties that your child may be having with sleep, it is important to be aware of the general developmental progression of sleep behavior in kids. Newborns alternate between sleep and wakefulness every 3-4 hours, awakening often associated with hunger. ... This means there are progressively longer periods of wakefulness during the daytime as well as longer periods of sustained sleep at nighttime. By about 12 weeks, an infant may sleep at night for periods up to 8 hours. ... If we look at EEG patterns (an EEG is an instrument that measures brain waves) we can see the patterns becoming increasingly organized into distinctive stages differentiating sleep from wakefulness. ... With some children, this kicks in quite early and with others it happens much later on. ...

• Consumer > Newsletters >Sleep Problems in Children and Teens.
• Sleep Problems.
• in Children and Teens.
• Sleep Problems in Childhood.
• Sleep Disorders in Children and Teens.
• Sleep and Behavior Problems in School-Aged Children.
• Television-viewing Habits and Sleep Disturbance.
• Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbance.
• Sleep Deprivation May Be Undermining Teen Health.
• Adolescent Sleep Needs and Patterns.
• Helping Children Cope with Death .
• Child Custody: Who Should Parent the Children? .
• Sleep disturbances among children and adolescents are common. Left untreated, sleep problems can result in significant emotional, behavioral, and cognitive impairment and can put youth at risk for poor school performance, accidents, and social or medical problems. Today's newsletter focuses on the treatment of sleep problems in young people.
• Sleep Disorders and Sleep Problems in Childhood.

• Should Children Sleep With Mom & Dad?.
• In rare cases, children have been suffocated by their parents accidentally rolling over onto them! .
• First put the baby to sleep on his back. ...
• Also allow the child to sleep next to mom because she is better conditioned to be aware of the child. ...
• Don't sleep with the baby if you use alcohol or other medications that could dull your senses to the baby's presence. ...
• Don't sleep with the baby if either parent smokes in the bedroom. ...
• And don't sleep with the baby on a couch, waterbed or other soft surface.
• They need to be the right reasons, like improved sleep for both parent and child. ...
• Children First .

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