What is the right age to give your child a bag of clothes, a toothbrush, a few dollars, and tell him (or her) to survive the night? What age is ideal to let your child eat pure sugar for 3 straight hours while watching 3 screens and going to bed at 3am? What milestone have […]
A Parable, Featuring Rogue One The Scene: 7am, Tuesday morning. Rogue One (8 years old) woke up multiple times overnight scared of something. He ended up in our bed after waking us up several times (by successfully annoying us enough to end up in our bed). I’ve already been up and helped my wife get […]
This is really a precursor to a larger discussion on sleep deprivation and medicine that hopefully I someday finish. As I sit and write this, it’s Tuesday night. I worked overnight shifts this previous Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in our pediatric emergency department. My shift was from roughly 11pm-8am each night. I saw over 30 patients […]