Set sleep standards and norms within your family. Establish that waking anyone up from sleep should never be done unless planned for.
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Set sleep standards and norms within your family. Establish that waking anyone up from sleep should never be done unless planned for.
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I'm guessing the routine/consistency is the power law. A family culture of sleep.
now I have three kids if I could travel back in time I would sit everyone down and say we are a sleep family and here are the rules of how we do sleep we go to bed on time we never get up at night we never wake anyone up unless we feel like our life is being threatened you're doing them a favor and you're setting them up with good habits that will endure throughout their life
So, I think that's definitely something that um all of us could have benefited from like these early life habits around sleep and being taught to have a consistent bedtime and make it sacred in your home.
10 minutes of bright outdoor light within the first hour of waking anchors the circadian phase and improves sleep onset that night.
Morning sunlight exposure shifts the cortisol awakening response forward, improving daytime alertness.
Long-term morning sunlight reduces age-related macular degeneration risk.
Sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality more strongly than sleep duration.
Tracking deep sleep on a wearable accurately reflects EEG-measured slow-wave sleep.
Caffeine has a half-life long enough that consumption after 2pm measurably degrades deep sleep in slow metabolizers.