A pediatric sleep specialist provides tips for navigating daylight saving time with your kids.
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Doctor’s Advice for Helping Your Child Get Enough Rest
What really works for children and sleep? Dr. Joelle McConlogue reveals some tips to help children and teens get the rest they need.
Sleeping Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic
These tips will help kids get back on the healthy sleep schedule they may have lost during the pandemic.
Helping Your Kids Spring Forward
On March 7, 2020, most of the U.S. population will move their clocks forward one hour, which means losing one hour of sleep. This adjustment can be difficult for kids’ sleep schedules.
70% of High Schoolers Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep
Caroline Okorie, MD, a pediatric sleep medicine specialist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, explains what parents can do.
Hush little baby: How to soothe your crying newborn
Vanita Jindal, MD, a Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatrician reminds new parents about the “5 S’s” for soothing a fussy infant.
All I want for Christmas is a good night’s sleep
Dr. Caroline Okorie, pediatric sleep specialist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, shares tips for how to get kids to sleep well during school breaks and holiday travel.
Sleeping isn’t just for babies
Is your teen getting enough sleep? Joelle McConologue, MD, a Stanford pediatrician at Bayside Medical Group in Pleasanton offers advice on helping teens get the zzz’s they need.
Keeping kids with grown-up diagnoses from falling through the cracks
Once in a while, kids suffer grown-up medical problems such as multiple sclerosis, sleep apnea or stroke. None of these conditions are rare, but the fact that they hardly ever occur in children causes special frustrations and challenges for young patients.
From A to ZZZZs: The trouble with teen sleep
Teenagers who don’t sleep enough pay a heavy price, potentially compromising their physical and mental health. Study after study in the medical literature sounds the alarm over what can go wrong when teens suffer chronic sleep deprivation: drowsy driving incidents, poor academic performance, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and even suicide attempts. “I think high school is the real danger spot in terms of sleep deprivation,” says Stanford sleep expert William Dement, MD, PhD. “It’s a huge problem.”
