Dads sharing a bed with their babies could be decreasing their levels of testosterone. Researchers think the decrease may have an effect on how welcoming the father is to bed sharing as a parent. Study author and Notre Dame Anthropologist Lee Gettler, noted that there is a growing body of knowledge linking men’s involvement in […]
Parents around the world tend to coddle their baby when they wake up crying, in an attempt to help them get back to sleep. However, Marsha Weinraub, a psychology professor at Temple University in Pennsylvania found that this is not conducive to helping young children learn how to sleep on their own. The study that […]
Tanya Byron, a leading psychologist, TV broadcaster, and British Government advisor on children, recently wrote in the UK’s Radio Times; “a profound lack of sleep” is to blame for behavioral problems amongst children. It may frequently seem as though younger generations are bigger troublemakers, or misbehave more frequently. While it may or may not necessarily […]
New research presented by Dr. Dina Cohen, of the University of Haifa’s Department of Counseling and Human Development, in Israel, shows that when infants begin to crawl, they tend to wake up more frequently at night. By keeping an eye on 28 babies in good health for 11 months, researchers were able to determine that […]
Researchers from Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development in Seattle, Washington found that by swapping out violent TV shows, and video games with educational material showed a reduction in sleep problems. While many have long-since thought that exposing young children to violent broadcasts could have a negative impact on them, this study shows an […]
According to a new study, Children who got less sleep than necessary in comparison to their peers end up weighing more. Dr. Teatske Altenburg, who is affiliated with the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, and her team conducted the study that led to the findings According to the National Sleep Foundation, children between the […]
New Zealand based researchers published findings detailing what kids do before they go to sleep, and how that impacts the sleep they do get. Taking a sample size of 2,000 people ranging in age from 5-18, the survey asked them to record what they did an hour and a half prior to retiring for […]
Bedtime can be an extremely stressful and often frightening time for toddlers. And, as loving parents you want nothing more than for your bundle of joy to sleep peacefully throughout the night. Stress can be product of any number of thoughts racing through your child’s head—from not wanting to miss out on anything exciting to […]
The American Journal of Epidemiology published a new study conducted by University of Wisconsin researchers relating to sleep loss experienced by parents. Research showed that mothers and fathers did not miss out on nearly as much sleep as they think they do. Using data amassed from 1989 – 2008 by the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, […]
By tracking sleep patterns of children from Portugal, to Japan, to the United States, researchers found that a lack of sleep at night has a direct influence on whether or not a child is likely to become obese. In fact, a child getting the least amount of sleep relative to their peers is 92% more […]
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