She also recommends removing phones, TVs and video games from the bedroom because they are too tempting. \u201cMost of us adults have a hard time getting off our phones when it\u2019s time to go to bed at night,\u201d Pritchard said. \u201cSo, kids can\u2019t be expected to do that for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
For children who wake at night and have difficulty falling back asleep, Pritchard suggests working with a counselor or therapist. For some, the problem is tied to fear of the dark and wanting a parent nearby at bedtime. If the parent leaves once the child is asleep, the child may have trouble settling after waking and finding the parent gone. Therapists can help families \u201cbreak some of those associations or habits that aren\u2019t serving them particularly well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Pritchard said interest in sleep has grown over the last decade, with new treatments emerging rapidly. She sees two routes to greater symptom improvement, better treatments and better matching each child with the treatment that fits them best. \u201cI do think that we\u2019re getting better in both of those arenas,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Pritchard was lead author of a survey study in the Journal of Attention Disorders of 100 caregivers of youth with ADHD. Caregivers said they wanted treatment to shorten a child\u2019s time to fall asleep by 30 minutes, while the best current treatments average approximately 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She also recommends removing phones, TVs and video games from the bedroom because they are too tempting. \u201cMost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-638307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}