We have another question here. I know we touched on this a little bit earlier about sleeping.
This question is: my daughter is around 10 and she has issues with sleeping.
It's really hard to get her off the phone and off devices before bedtime, and we're not sleeping through the night—just different issues with sleep.
Sleep habits and sleep patterns are really important.
I would probably want to talk about sleep hygiene here.
What we refer to as sleep hygiene is the pattern or rituals before going to bed and what’s happening during the night.
We know that electronic devices emit blue light, which reduces the release of melatonin in our bodies.
Our bodies naturally produce melatonin, but blue light interferes with that process.
So having a device in the room is probably not going to be the best thing for them late at night.
Ideally, your child should be away from the phone about 30 minutes to an hour before bed—that’s a good starting point.
Then getting into calming music or dimmer light, something that signals to the body and mind that it's time to wind down.
That’s a really important thing to consider.
I would want to focus on creating a sleep hygiene protocol and consistent patterns.
If your daughter is resistant, I would do it with love—remember, relationships first.
I would express concern: “This is important to me, and I want to try this because sleep is so, so important.”
So I would try to create an environment where we're talking about sleep patterns and sleep hygiene,
and then help our child notice the difference between feeling refreshed and not.
You're trying to teach a child to regulate their own sleep patterns and to understand why sleep is so important.
