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Webcast Transcript
JODI MINDELL, PhD: A bedtime routine is as important for a 2-year-old as it is for a 12-year-old as important as it is for a 35-year-old. You want to have a routine that's relaxing, two to three activities that you do before you fall asleep. National Sleep Foundation poll found that children who were read to or read right before bed slept better and got more sleep.
ANNOUNCER: Making the environment conducive for sleep and practicing good bedtime behaviors are important for everyone. Adults too. That means cutting out caffeine and alcohol before bedtime and reserving the bed for sleep and not for paying bills. But you may still have problems sleeping
JODI MINDELL, PhD: Approximately 25 to 30 percent of adults have some type of sleep problem. And it may get exacerbated at times of change, such as back to school times. Typical problems that adults have -- insomnia is a number one problem, difficulties falling asleep or difficulty staying asleep.
ANNOUNCER: If you continue having trouble with sleep, speak to your doctor. A sleep aid may help.
JODI MINDELL, PhD: For the benzodiazepines, one of the biggest problems has been finding a dose that helps you during the night but doesn't leave you feeling groggy and sort of hungover-feeling in the morning. And one of the benefits of the newer medications is that they affect a much narrower area in our brain and, therefore, you typically do not have any of those effects of being groggy in the morning, as long as you take it enough hours before you wake up in the morning.
ANNOUNCER: Fall is a time of change and in the end it's parents who have to set a good example to get everyone back on a track for a productive and restful new term.
DANIEL LEWIN, PhD: Modeling optimal sleep behavior can start with the parents. So having parents emphasize the importance of sleep, how good it is, how important it is for adequate daytime functioning to be happy and healthy is probably the first step.
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