Helping Families Break the Generational Cycle of Insufficient Sleep

This guide aims to help parents create a positive bedtime experience that supports their children's natural craving for Sleep Wellness.

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What are the dos and don’ts for instilling the SuperPower of sleep in your household for the children in your life?

Sleep To Live Well Foundation’s family guidebook offers advice for everyone who wants to give children of all ages the best possible chance at living a healthy and happy life.

It helps ensure children maintain a welcoming, natural relationship with bedtime and sleep. Embracing Sleep Wellness, with 62 pages of insights and encouragement, is filled with practical advice for your household's children, tweens, teens, AND adults.

All parents understand how important sleep is for newborns and infants. However, as time passes and life gets busy, sleep often takes a back seat. This guide, filled with advice, support, and encouragement, summarizes the insights Dr. Roger Washington has shared with his patients over 35 years of family care. It demonstrates how to naturally prioritize Sleep Wellness, turning bedtime into an appointment that children will eagerly anticipate.

The guide addresses various challenges that can interfere with sleep wellness and provides strategies to overcome them:

  • Children may resist bedtime, causing parents to overlook the importance of sleep at every developmental stage.

  • Parents may unintentionally model poor bedtime habits they learned during their own childhood.

  • Children of different ages have different bedtimes and sleep needs, which can complicate sleep routines.

Parents’ Guide to Sleep Wellness

Featured Guidance from 62 Pages of Support for Children and Parents

  • A mother and young girl lying in bed, touching foreheads, with the girl wearing a sleep mask with closed eyes drawn on it.
  • Infographic titled 'Benefits of Sufficient Sleep for Children' from the Sleep to Live Well Foundation, listing how sleep improves children's life, health, learning, and behavior. It includes bullet points on happiness, growth, academic performance, and conduct.
  • A young girl with curly hair lying on a pillow, yelling or crying with her mouth open and eyes squinted.
  • Infographic titled 'Dangers of Insufficient Sleep for Children' from Sleep to Live Well Foundation, listing negative behaviors and health issues associated with poor sleep, including bad behavior, learning difficulties, health problems, and emotional struggles, with a website link at the bottom.
  • A mother and daughter hugging and smiling, conveying love and warmth during a bedtime or cozy moment.
  • Text-based guide on sleep wellness bedtime rituals for families, including creating a peaceful home, saving money, creating proud parents, and building a stronger family, from a health organization.
  • A black-and-white photo of a young child sitting on a bed, facing an adult man lying down, who is looking at the child with a smile. The scene emphasizes a bedtime story or emotional connection.
  • Page from a guide titled 'Parents Guide to Sleep Wellness' with a section on setting an emotional check-in with your child at bedtime. It discusses benefits like fostering gratitude, reducing frustration, and promoting hope and rejuvenation through bedtime stories and emotional expression. The page features bullet points with arrows indicating steps and benefits, including and emphasizing the emotional and mental health advantages for children.
  • A man wearing a denim jacket and headphones sits at a desk, smiling at a computer screen in a cozy, modern home setting with shelves and a plant in the background.
  • A page from a sleep wellness guide titled 'Parents Guide to Sleep Wellness,' discussing the effects of late-night activities such as eating and screen time on sleep, with tips for better sleep, and emphasizing the importance of sleep hygiene.

What parents are saying about Embracing Sleep Wellness: A Family Guide to Turning Sleep Resistence into A Nurturing Ritual.

  • This guide is very useful!

  • We needed advice on how to be stern with the different bedtimes and how to reframe them so they are not a punishment.

  • I always thought I could not change my love of the nighttime quiet, but after understanding how this impacted my family and health, I was motivated to change!

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Start your journey to Sleep Wellness now!

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