The Time is Now to Plan Back-to-School Sleep Routines

With summer vacations and family trips (jam-packed with late nights!) soon ending, GBMC clinicians want to remind parents that now is the best time to re-establish bedtime routines. Studies have shown that students who get enough sleep tend to have the best chances at excelling in the classroom, performing at their highest academic level, and engaging more in after-school activities.

Samantha W. Boellner, BSN, MSN, CRNP, Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner at GBMC Health Partners Primary Care – Hunt Manor, offers parents guidelines on how to create a gradual process that will help their kids settle into their back-to-school sleep schedule, how to determine if their child is getting enough sleep, and ways to handle the other major cause of lack of sleep – screen time.

To read more about this and view the video interview, visit https://foxbaltimore.com/morning/reinstating-kids-bed-times.