kids and sleep

Wellness Wednesday: Day care workers arrested in Chicago for feeding toddlers melatonin gummy bears at naptime

March 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

If you're a parent and you give your children melatonin, that is something you should do with the guidance of a pediatrician and in the privacy of your own home. For a daycare provider to dispense melatonin gummy bears as a "naptime snack" is unethical and illegal. We don't know enough about how melatonin affects children's sleep-wake cycles and overall brain development to be so cavalier about this practice. [...]

Sleep News Weekly || Jan 26, 2018 Special Edition: Sleep Across the Lifespan

January 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

The way we sleep across the continuum of our lives changes depending on age and situation. This special installment focuses on the human lifespan, curating recent news links that reflect the concerns of these key milestones in our sleeping lives: Aging, Menopause, Sandwich Generation, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Fertility, Young Adulthood, Adolescence, Childhood, and the sleep lives of the newly born. [...]

Sleep News Weekly || Dec 8, 2017: BC diesel spill caused by sleepy sailor, America’s racial sleep gap, how to sleep on a plane, more

December 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is Rihanna a short sleeper or does she practice poor sleep hygiene?; new baby "sock" can track infant vitals during sleep; Florence Nightingale knew about light and circadian rhythms; and more about how America (and the world) sleeps. [...]

Sleep News Special Report || A month’s worth of Homeless ‘Right To Sleep’ coverage

December 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The homeless "right to sleep" is both a human and a civil right. Yet homelessness is a global problem of epidemic proportion, with so many innocent people criminalized for being poor. A place to sleep for those without a roof (which includes people who actually have jobs and are working, as well as entire families with nowhere to go) has become impossible to find for untold thousands. The odds of these people turning their lives around become slimmer the longer they "sleep rough," yet getting adequate sleep may be one of the most critical basic needs that could help them. [...]

Sleep News Weekly || Sept 15, 2017 || Marijuana and sleep, nap pods at airports, no dogs in bed, more

September 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

SHC has vetted the week's sleep news so you don't have to! [...]

Sleep News Weekly || Sept 8, 2017 || Beeswax for insomnia, Mattress King in Houston, the right to sleep, more

September 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

SHC has vetted the week's sleep news so you don't have to! TGIF, but... Please keep positive thoughts for hurricane victims from our Caribbean neighbors as well as Texas, Louisiana and Florida this weekend. [...]

Surviving Harvey: Nobody actually sleeps through a hurricane

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sleep, like food and shelter, will be in short supply for many now and in the days and weeks that follow in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Please try to get your sleep when you can, however; sleep is an important ingredient in physical and emotional survival of trauma. [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Wendy Troxel’s TEDx talk on “Why school should start later for teens”

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Starting school later for teens is a controversial subject. Naturally, there are TED talks focused on this important topic. [...]

Your 3pm Decaf Drip for August 28, 2017

August 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

We’ve vetted last week’s sleep news so you don’t have to. Happy Monday!

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Need better bedtime tips? Our all-ages Better Bedtimes hacks on Pinterest have you covered

August 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

sponge bob back to school sleep deprived

Young people are returning to school now and in the weeks ahead, whether it's preschool or grad school. Getting back into a healthy sleep schedule is critical to their success no matter how young, or old, they are. [...]