Parenting

Simple Ways to Destress Your Mornings

For many parents, hearing their alarm go off in the morning fills them with dread. After all, now they have to beg, plead, cajole, and even drag their kids out of bed, somehow get them dressed, and get them on the school bus on time. The good news: There are things you can do to smooth over the morning madness.

“Waking your child up for school shouldn’t be difficult,” says Jodi Mindell, Ph.D., author of Take Charge of your Child’s Sleep. “You just have to avoid the biggest mistake parents make: Letting their children stay up too late at night.” (more…)

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