Generation Sleepless - Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright [364]

How can we help kids get better sleep? Authors of “Generation Sleepless,” Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright help us help our tweens, teens, and even little ones get better sleep! We talk about the “perfect storm” of factors that work against us, and how to hold limits to support kids’ sleep!

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4. Only 10% of teens get healthy sleep on a regular basis
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8. Lack of sleep is lending to the mental health crisis in tweens and teens
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12. Parents let go of limits way too early
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Heather and Julie are psychotherapists and authors of The Happy Sleeper and Now Say This. Their new book is called Generation Sleepless — why tweens and teens are not sleeping enough, and how we can help them.

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