Experts at the Northwestern School of Medicine say if you want your baby or kids to sleep well, then you should establish good habits early on. They correlate sleeping to food, saying that like food, there's junk food and good food. For sleep, there's junk sleep and good sleep. So what are good sleeping habits? Let your baby sleep on their own schedule--when their little bodies tell them it's time to take a nap. This article from USA Today says too often parent try to fit babies into their schedule, therefore perpetuating junk sleep. Oh, have we mentioned that junk sleep equals long nights for the parents? Behavioral problems, academic struggles and more could be a result of not enough good sleep for kids.

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