Let’s say you have a hot date tonight. Yay! You’re going out for drinks at some swanky spot downtown. You’re excited…and a tad bit nervous. According to the experts, your dating experience could go very differently, depending on the quality of your sleep the night before! Dating is far from simple, but here’s a deliberately…
Bedtime Stories for Better Learning
So we’ve been thinking a lot this time of year about getting kids back on that school-night schedule, hard as it may be for youngsters and grown-ups alike. It’s important, because sleep is even more crucial for kids than for adults and the average elementary school student needs 11 hours per night. Experts say bedtime routines—some people…
Better Back-to-School Bedtimes
We always get spoiled in the summers. We let our kids stay up and sleep in a little later, we go on vacations and get all thrown off our regular schedules. Some parents manage to maintain consistent bedtimes, but lots of school-aged children go to bed later in the summertime. The days are longer, after…
How to Travel Restfully
This is the time of year when many of us peel ourselves away from work and head out on vacation, that blissful week or so of relaxation, new experiences and “getting-away-from-it-all.” But oftentimes, traveling is anything but restful. (Especially if you’re traveling with young children!) There’s packing and driving and flying and waiting for your…
The Restfulness of Being Outside
There’s a video circulating these days that we like a lot: a quick glimpse at the childhoods of three generations. It’s a little bit sweet and a little bit sad. The silver-haired folks on the video remembered picking berries, watching things grow, fishing and escaping bears in the woods. The middle-aged fondly recalled building forts…
Why Bad Dreams Are Good for You
You’re terrified. You need to escape, to do something. But no matter what, you just.can’t.run. You can’t yell for help. Your mouth seems glued shut and your legs drag like lead and the terrible thing (fill in the blank) chasing you is catching up. You can feel it behind you, closing in It’s not a…
The Secret to a Long Life: Sleep!
Want to live long and prosper? Well, nerdy Star Trek references aside, you should sleep a lot! Don’t take our word for it: the world’s oldest woman attributes her longevity to getting “lots of sleep”…along with prodigious amounts of bacon eating. Susannah Mushatt Jones just turned 116 on Monday, making her the oldest living human and…
To Sleep Soundly, Organize Your Life!
Are you someone who loves to have a place for everything and everything in its place? Do you color code your closet and create nerdy labels for everything? Are you religious about checking off tasks? Or maybe those questions are rather hilarious to you. Maybe the busyness of life has made organization seem like a…
What Twitter Can Teach Us About Sleep
Do you hit up social media when you can’t sleep? Are you a midnight tweeter who uses hashtags like #cantsleep and #teamnosleep? If so, new Harvard University research is about you. Apparently, enough Twitter users have trouble sleeping that we now know more about sleep disorders thanks to their data. According to the recent study…
Talk Therapy for Insomniacs
Can’t fall sleep at night? Do you wake up tossing and turning with a mind that won’t shut off? You’re not alone. Sleep scientists say a large chunk of people worldwide experience trouble sleeping. In the U.S., it’s 40 percent of adults. And 15 percent suffer from chronic insomnia, with symptoms persisting a month or…