Dr. Brian Chen of the Cleveland Clinic joins the AccuWeather Network to speak on the importance of maintaining a healthy amount of sleep for kids before the new school year starts.

As the school year approaches, many children may have disrupted sleep schedules due to later sunsets and increased evening activities during the summer. Dr. Brian Chen, a sleep specialist at the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center, recommends gradually shifting children's bedtimes and wake-up times by about an hour each week to help them adjust smoothly to earlier school mornings.

Dr. Chen also emphasizes the importance of ensuring children get enough sleep for their age group, with teenagers needing 8-10 hours and younger children requiring even more. He advises limiting screen time at least two hours before bedtime to avoid disrupting melatonin production, and suggests exposure to bright light in the morning to help reset the body's internal clock.

Resetting bedtime before school starts

For some kids, the school mornings, they're also back, which means the school days are right around the corner. And of course, if you have been staying up late, it might be time to try to reset that sleep routine. Joining us right now is Dr. Brian Chen, sleep specialist at Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center. Now, Dr. Chen, don't focus on us tonight. We don't sleep enough. We know that's not right, but let's talk about kids and how summer does throw off a child's sleep schedule. That's right, yeah. As it can throw off for anybody, any adult or child or anybody, there's sunlight later into the evening, you know? So the sun goes down later, and so there's more fun things to do, stay out, hang out, have a barbecue, whatever it may be. But like you said, some things happen in the morning, and so we have to get up for those things, like school, and that's coming up real soon. Now, we talk about a lot, I think, certain times of the year, but instead of that sudden change to bedtime, how should we be adjusting our child's sleep gradually? That's right, yeah. Gradual, slow, and steady is the way. So if you slowly move up the bedtime by an hour, that is probably, by an hour a week, that's probably the most sustainable. Now, if you're in a little bit of a crunch, if school starts next week or something, then you do what you have to do, but you'll feel that jet lag later on. So move up your bedtime by an hour once a week, but you should also move your wake-up time earlier by an hour once a week. And how much sleep do kids need, depending on their age? Yeah, it varies. So adults need somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep, and everybody varies. We all wanna be seven hours of sleep, but most people need eight hours of sleep, and some people even nine hours of sleep. And we have to keep in mind that kids need more sleep than we do, though it doesn't seem like they get it sometimes. So let's say for teenagers, it's somewhere eight to 10 hours of sleep, and then younger kids can be even nine to 12 hours of sleep, and then kids in elementary school, it can be even 10 to 14 hours of sleep, and young babies, it can be much longer. They're basically sleeping the whole day, almost. So keep that in mind whenever you're saying, is my kid getting enough sleep? When do they have to go to bed, based on when do they have to wake up, and is that enough hours of sleep? Bernie and I are looking into that. We're thinking about, you said adult seven to nine. I think we both timed out because I got 4.5 last night. If I get four and a half, I'm lucky. Yeah, we're living on the edge here. Granted, I usually do better. But we don't wanna beat the focus on us. The kids. We know we need more sleep. Bedtime routine, it can be really difficult sometimes to put a child to bed. How can screen light and screen time be avoided? Yes, that's right. So we advise that screens be cut off about two hours before the bedtime, and remember, that has to scoot up as you scoot to bedtime earlier, too. How do you do that? That's up to you. Maybe there's some sort of reward system. Maybe it's lead by example sometimes, maybe. But it's difficult. It's really hard. There's so much fun things that go on in the screens, and the light from the screens can wake our brain up or suppress the natural melatonin production in our brain. That melatonin helps us know it's time to go to sleep, just like it helps when the sun goes down, the light goes away, and thus, our brains are trained to go to sleep. The same is true on the other end. Get bright light in your eyes when you wake up in the morning. As soon as you wake up in the morning, that's when the lights above us go in your eyes. So if the sun is out, what you guys can let them know if the sun's gonna be up tomorrow, then get out there and get some sunlight. All right, Dr. Brian Chen, sleep specialist at Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorder Center. Thanks for joining us here on AccuWeather. Hurley, doctor, great information. Yeah, really interesting stuff. Thank you, guys.

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