Teenagers benefit from interactions with their parents before bed
A study published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine this week found that adolescents who connect with their parents at bedtime and waketime get longer, better sleep. The small study, which involved 28 parent-adolescent groups, monitored behavior over 10 days using electronic diaries tracked in the morning and evening. The teens with more “affiliative interactions” with their parents in these times both slept for a longer period and got higher-quality sleep. When they had more time than their average, their sleep quality improved even further. The researchers concluded that parents provide a critical sense of social and emotional security for adolescents, spotlighting the value of these affiliative interactions before and after sleep.
In more fun sleep news…
Let Ryan Reynolds lull you to sleep
Tired of coming up with your own bedtime stories? Ryan Reynolds is here to help. The star has a new series, “Bedtime Stories with Ryan,” premiering next week with Fubo and Maximum Effort Channel. Each 15-minute episode is designed to help you fall asleep. Check out the trailer, which features Reynolds in PJs.
That’s not garlic bread…
We’ve all done some laughable things when sleep-deprived, but TikTok user CoryPea takes the cake…or rather, the garlic bread. She reports that as a sleep-deprived parent of a newborn, she popped frozen 15-minute garlic bread into the oven. After 90 minutes waiting for that aromatic, crisped bread, the bleary-eyed parents finally realized that they had instead popped a pair of sponges into the oven.
