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Sleep Anxiety In Kids Is Real. Here's What’s Working In My House To Combat It.

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2 days ago

FG Trade/E+/Getty ImagesMy 9-year-old daughter looks at me most nights like I’ve just asked her to climb Mt. Everest barefoot.Her eyes fill. Her voice cracks.“I can’t do it,” she says. “I just can’t go to sleep.”She says it again. And again. Like maybe the third time will make it truer. Or easier. Or less terrifying. And I get it. I really do. Because sleep, for reasons science can explain and anxiety cannot, has recently become the hardest thing she does all day.Here’s the part where parenting gets nuanced and weird and emotionally layered: Her dad gives her a super low dose of melatonin at h...