A Healthy Child Needs a Healthy Brain, A Healthy Brain Needs Healthy Sleep

Which statements are correct?

1. A healthy baby needs a healthy brain, a healthy brain needs healthy sleep. (Blog Posts 1–5, 220, 235A)
2. Chronic sleep loss in children causes brain damage. (Blog Posts 148–151, 200, 221, 230A, 235B)
3. If you fight circadian sleep rhythms, you won’t win and your baby will lose. (Blog Posts 8, 112, 196)

Answer:  All of the above.

Which statements are correct?

1. How parents feed their child directly effects their child’s growth and development.
2. How parents sleep their child directly effects their child’s brain growth and development.

Answer:  Both

Sleep deprivation is a brain threat, just like starvation harms the body

Which statements are correct?

1. Parents promote healthy sleep in their child by providing their child with early bedtimes.
2. Parents promote healthy sleep in their child by being less involved with their child at bedtimes (and naptimes) and in the middle of the night. (Blog Post 145)
3. Parents promote healthy sleep in their child by providing timely nap opportunities and appropriate environments for their child’s naps..

Answer:  All of the above.

Parents prevent or cause children’s sleep problems. (Blog Post 234D)

What can a parent do?

1. Don’t withhold food when your child is hungry.
2. Don’t withhold sleep when your child is drowsy.

Answer:  Both.

Some parents innocently steal sleep from their child because they do not appreciate that sleep is a biological need, like food, water, and oxygen. (Blog Post 38).

True or False?

A chronically slightly late bedtime, even just a few minutes late, harms the brain.

Answer:  True.

Just as a small parasitic electrical leak in your car battery, over time, slowly causes damage,  a few minutes less sleep, like a slightly too late bedtime, over time, harms the developing brain  (Blog Post 235AY)