Your child may complain about sleeping, but this episode of Stuff Your Dad Knows will give you some ammunition.

Sleep is important for cataloguing memories. It's when your brain does its filing and storage.

Brian Foxx of FM100.3 joined Ethan Millard for this episode and they also discussed how people in the past slept.

A few generations ago, it was much more common for people to sleep in two large blocks of about four hours separated by a waking break of a few hours.