Under-pressure parents lie about child sleep patterns: survey

Exhausted mums and dads are lying about their child’s sleeping habits due to pressure to be seen as a perfect parent, a survey claims.

It reveals less than half of parents (45.8%) say their child never wakes in the night, with around one in ten (11.1%) getting up three or more times.

Parenting website Netmums, which questioned almost 11,000 parents, said the findings showed the pressure to be a perfect parent is so great that around a third of parents admit lying about their youngster’s sleep habits.