Why parents of older kids still don’t sleep 😫
If you’re a new parent, you hardly need to read the latest study to understand the ways sleep deprivation impacts your physical, cognitive, and mental health—you’re living it. But I’m sorry to tell you that for many, getting enough of the right kind of sleep continues even past the baby stage. Perhaps yourand you need to get them up in the middle of the night to use the toilet. Perhaps your school-aged child has started getting nightmares and calls you to come comfort them.
So what is this kind of long-term exhaustion doing to us? Research in recent years have shown that an ongoing reduction in sleep can impede working memory, which is the ability to remember something for a short time so you can recall it elsewhere, like a shopping list or directions.
Clearly, sleep is crucial to good health. So what can you do about all the bathroom breaks, nightmares, and illnesses that interrupt and reduce sleep? I spoke with Whitney Roban, a clinical psychologist whose company, SLEEP-EEZ KIDZ, helps children, adolescents, and adults create good family sleep hygiene.Roban says that good sleep is more than just the number of hours you get.
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