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Home > QR-E-Letter Archive > 5-26-2005
Issue No. 7 May 26, 2005
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QUICK REFERENCE #12: What are some ideas for improving the quality of children's sleep?
The following content is from the Star Sleeper campaign of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Star Sleeper provides information about the importance of adequate nighttime sleep to children. In addition to the tips that follow, the Star Sleeper Web site includes sleep education tools/activities for children, and materials that parents, teachers, and healthcare providers can use to help children improve the quality of their sleep.
Sleep Tips for Your Children
Here are some important things you can do to ensure that your child gets enough sleep:
• Set a regular time for bed each night and stick to it.
• Establish a relaxing bedtime routine, such as giving your child a warm bath or reading him or her a story.
• Make after-dinner playtime a relaxing time. Too much activity close to bedtime can keep children awake.
• Avoid feeding children big meals close to bedtime.
• Avoid giving children anything with caffeine less than six hours before bedtime.
• Set the bedroom temperature so that it’s comfortable—not too warm and not too cold.
• Make sure the bedroom is dark. If necessary, use a small nightlight.
• Keep the noise level low.
SOURCE: The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications (June 2003)—reprinted material from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Star Sleeper Web site [http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp].
Paid subscribers to The Complete Practitioner: Mental Health Applications can access related content by conducting a search for "sleep" in the Subscribers' Area of our Web site [http://www.completepractitioner.com].
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