Proven advice for better sleep in kids and parents
"Wake windows" are a newly popular concept in infant and toddler sleep. In a nutshell, "wake windows" are intervals between naps. They are also known as "awake windows" or "baby wake windows". …
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What do the families who come into Sleep Clinic have in common? Almost all of them have tried sleep training and failed. There are some common sleep training mistakes that parents make. Knowing about …
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Spring is in the air— although some of my midwestern friends seem to have just had snow. (So glad we avoided that here in the Northeast. Here’s my very irregular round up of things I’m reading, …
Look, whether you're working or you're a student these days, unfortunately, online classes, online meetings are just the fact of life. And many of my patients have been struggling with sleepiness …
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I’ve been thinking a lot about habits related to sleep issues in children, after having finished The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (affiliate link). The dictionary defines habits as “a settled or …
Well, another year in the books for you and me. Certainly, although there were intimations of cases of a mysterious pneumonia in China one year ago, there’s no way that any of us anticipated the way …
https://youtu.be/VZZIBri_qV0 (Check out the video! My kids had a heavy hand in this one. . .) As we head into what promises to be a very long winter, many kids and parents are looking at online …
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I was pleased to be quoted by Catherine Zuckerman in this very nice article on insomnia in the Covid-19. Between election stress, Covid stress, kid stress, it's clear that many people are struggling …
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Please share the The School, Sleep, and COVID-19 Survey with your teenage patients. Here's a short video on a patient who received a Nature Prescription. I want to highlight the work by …
I often get requests from students and educators interested in learning more about the start time issue. Here is my continually updated teen sleep info including articles and resources for anyone …
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I get asked this question all of the time. Parents are understandably worried about how long their baby will cry during sleep training. It's a terrible feeling when your child is crying even if you …
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Are you tired? Not sure how to help your kid sleep through the night? Here is my comprehensive guide to sleep training tools and methods to help tired parents and kids sleep better. These sleep …
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Before you starting thinking about sleep training, you need to look at your child's eating habits at night. I would strongly recommend that you stop any caloric intake as one of your first steps in …
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Is your child struggling with sleep during the Covid-19 lockdown? You are not alone. Many parents have told me that their child can't sleep during quarantine. I reached out and heard from hundreds of …
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If your child is struggling with napping, I recently wrote an article for the New York Times called, Your Kids Refuse to Nap? There's Hope. In it, I cover what to expect from your child at different …
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