kids and sleep

Wellness Wednesday: Time to reset the kids’ sleep schedules

August 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

If you can help your kids' sleep schedules as they transition back to school, it can make a difference. Strict bedtimes for young ones is called for; advice to university coeds for managing sleep without the confines of family habits can also be useful. [...]

Wellness Wednesday: Sleep Tight video game makes fun of the dark

August 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

SLEEP TIGHT isn't probably something your sleep doctor will encourage but parents with kids afraid of the dark might see a benefit to empowering their children to vanquish the monsters who make their bedtimes fearful. Your mileage may vary. [...]

Wellness Wednesday: Managing the unmet needs of pediatric sleep apnea patients

July 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Sleep apnea in kids can be caused by underdeveloped cranial physiology, tongue tie, obesity, overlarge tonsils, and other problems. [...]

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. [...]