Who doesn’t love sleep?

When I cut my sleep time I know what will happen and often we assume the same thing will happen to our children. We’ll just be a little blurry and we just have to get through it! Brain science is telling us differently now. Children with sleep loss have very different effects than adults. It’s surprising how differently sleep loss is to a child and teen than it is to an adult. We’re not talking about babies and sleep but elementary and older children.  So much happens when we sleep, if only they knew maybe they’d sleep more.

During this episode we talk about how children and adults lack of sleep is very different to each other and how we can support our family to have better sleep and why this is crucial for the well being of ourselves and the family.

What’s the struggle you’re having around sleep with elementary and older children?

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00.40 The case for adult and children sleep times being different and the impact it has on the children.

Now we know what do we do?

07.55  First way we can support our children with sleep

11.56  Second way we can support our children and a good phrase to use

13.50 Third way we can support our children as a family with sleep

17.08  Fourth way we can support our children and sleep by getting the facts and applying them with our family in mind

19.26 Fifth way we can positively support our children with good sleep habits starts with family atmosphere

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Show notes

Excellent book that challenges commonly held assumptions with science.

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