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[quote=Anonymous]There is a crisis of mental health in our children at present, and many parents point to social media for that crisis. There is definitely a lot that is toxic about social media, but as someone working with kids I contend that sleep deprivation is a primary cause of the mental health crisis in child populations. The CDC link I posted above shows how high the rates of sleep deprivation among children are.

As someone who suffered terrible chronic insomnia during perimenopause and consequently the bleakest depression of my life - suicidal depression, in fact - which was cured when I got my sleep back, I can attest to the importance of sleep to keep a healthy brain.

Too many parents these days don’t want to say ‘no’ to their kids. They don’t want to say no to themselves often, either. Kids should have an early bedtime that allows them sufficient time to be meeting the AASM sleep recommendations and that should include putting digital devices in the family digital locker at bedtime and/or shutting down the wifi, and no TVs in bedrooms. We have a mental health epidemic because people are not sleeping![/quote]

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