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An extra half hour of sleep may not seem like much, but for the 200 students who participated in an experiment that pushed back the start time of school by that much, those extra thirty minutes of shut-eye made a huge difference. Continue reading »
Studies have shown that young children who keep a consistent bedtime schedule do better in school than those whose don’t. And as difficult as it can be to get a wide awake-toddler to settle down in the evenings, we generally give it our best shot because we know that it’s important for their development.
But as the kids get older, many of us tend to relax those bedtime rules. We often let our teenagers set their own bedtime schedules and assume they are getting enough rest. But experts say that the teen years are not the time to stop enforcing bedtimes and that doing so can have serious mental health consequences. Continue reading »
Every parent has struggled to get their child to sleep. From the bleary days of round the clock care right after birth to the struggle of wills with a toddler to the endless dawdling of a school age kid who needs just one more glass of water, sleep is an issue.
The good news for tired parents: there is a magic bullet that solves most of these problems. It’s called “bedtime”.
Putting your child to bed at a regular time each night not only leads to better sleep for everyone, it helps your child’s development, too.
There’s a shocking cure for the baby blues: sleep deprivation.
The New York Times reports that depressed new mothers who stay up all night will find their depression lifted by morning. They say:
Sleep deprivation used as a treatment for depression is efficacious and robust: it works quickly, is relatively easy to administer, inexpensive, relatively safe and it also alleviates other types of clinical depression.
Most new parents are painfully familiar with sleep deprivation, and I’ve never heard anyone say it made life with a new baby better. What’s up with this research? Continue reading »
If your kids are at all like mine, getting them out of bed on a school day can be like pulling teeth — in fact, you’d think you were dragging them off to have their teeth pulled, the way they fight getting up. I suspect it’s only going to get worse once they become teenagers. But if the results a British high school has seen are typical, then one simple change would pretty much make the problem go away.
The bedtime battle is as old as parenting. You want to sleep. Your kid wants to stay up all night watching cartoons and eating sugary cereal from the box, which is what he’s sure you do after bedtime.
It’s not just babies vs. parents anymore at bedtime. Moms (and dads) have opened up a new battlefield in the infamous Mommy Wars, and are tearing each other apart over whether – and how – to train their babes to sleep.
You can only spend so many hours a day in bed. Between work, kids, keeping house and managing our lives, the days of carefree afternoons to laze around between the sheets with your lover are probably long over.
In fact, most of us spend too few hours in bed every night. At that point, what we do with those hours becomes a trade-off: sex vs. sleep. For one out of four Americans, sleep wins. At least according to a new study by the National Sleep Foundation, reported in the New York Times. Continue reading »
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