Sunday, April 16, 2017

Sleep can save your mind

During a well check, I ask some basic questions about several different areas of life to try and figure out where we need to focus our time:
- Is your kid doing ok in school?
- Are they brushing their teeth?
- Do they have friends (Are they developing socially?)
- Do they eat at least some vegetables?
- Do they sleep ok at night?

I feel like over just my short 5 years of practice, the question regarding sleep has become more and more of a problem.  There have always been a few people that have pathologic sleep problems that need professional help.  But now "basic" sleep hygeine does not seem to be basic anymore.

Here is a great article from healthchildren.org with a great reminder of the little things you can do to help improve your child (or your own) sleep.

Sleep and Mental Health 

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Miralax

Is miralax really just anti-freeze causing my child to go crazy?
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