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How To Get Your Kids on a Back to School Sleep Schedule
… not get enough sleep,” says Sameh Morkous, MD, Pediatric Sleep Medicine specialist with Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital. The key to easing back into normalcy without feeling exhausted is to establish a sleep schedule ahead of school … to self-regulate, or to stay awake, or just because they can," Morkous says. "But the bag of chips, or the cookies at 1 a.m., or caffeine any time after dinner—whether or not they help get the essay written—can postpone sleep, and harmfully." … earlier every 3-7 days (with a goal of 30 minutes per week.) So for example, if your teen has been staying up until 1 a.m. and waking up at 10 a.m. every day this summer, the first night should look like 12:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m., and by the …