Helping Your Child Conquer Nightmares Nightmares are terrifying for everyone, even adults. Children are often affected even more, calling out for their parents in fear after waking up. Luckily, by about preschool age children are able to differentiate dreams from reality, including nightmares. So, calming them down is doable and it’s possible to reduce your …
Common Child Sleep Disorders Sleep is important to a child’s health. Learning how to sleep soundly is an essential part of development. It is typical – for various reasons – for children to wake up during the night. However, returning to sleep may be difficult at times for children. Sleep deprivation in children can lead …
The Perfect Foods to Help Your Kids Sleep It’s difficult to ensure your kids sleep on a regular schedule, especially when they are younger and want nothing more than to stay up with their parents. Certain foods can ease a child into a sleepy state where they are ready for bed themselves and other types of foods …
Improve Your Child’s Quality of Sleep with White Noise White noise can play a complex role in helping a child maintain healthy sleep hygiene. It’s hard to get a child to sleep and creating a routine can be an important part of getting your kid to bed. Adding a white noise machine or using a …
Restless Legs Syndrome: An Overview If you’re overcome by the painful urge to constantly move your legs, or by unconscious kicking and jerking that’s keeping you awake at night, you’re not alone. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) affects up to 7-10% of adults in the US population, with approximately 2% of RLS patients being children. However, …
Do You Find it Hard to Sleep in New York? Old, sepia photographs of New York City from just a hundred years ago show a landscape of buildings only a few stories tall. It’s a shocking contrast to the monoliths of today; but evidence that we built from the ground up. It seems obvious, but …
Is it Actually Possible to Catch Up on Lost Sleep? While the National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults aged 18 to 64 get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep a day, this may prove challenging for some people. Full-time students, parents of young children, and people with second and third shift jobs are just a …
Sleep Hygiene: Overcoming Sleeping Problems Time is a funny thing when you should have been asleep hours ago. You wait for sleep behind closed eyes, and the seconds draw out. But when you check the clock, precious time raced by. You’re going to be so tired tomorrow. At times like this, the most obvious solution …
Does Yoga Lead to Better Sleep Quality? India’s civilization, and its cultural accomplishments, are very old and varied. Its people have produced several traditional medical systems. From the Ayurvedic system, the Charaka Samhita reads, “Happiness, misery, nourishment, emaciation, strength, weakness, virility, sterility, knowledge, ignorance, life and death — all these occur depending on proper or …
Does Blue Light Actually Affect Our Sleep Cycle? Light at night disrupts your health, and exposure to blue light is especially problematic. Light throws the body’s biological clock out of rhythm, shifting our circadian rhythm. Sleep suffers. But not all colors of light have the same effect. Commonly emitted by electronics and energy-efficient light bulbs, …
