Dr. Sue McCurry

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Life's Dirty Little Secrets Podcast | Breaking Silence Around the Secrets We All Carry · Secret #83: Sleep Myths with Dr. Sue McCurry · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

I I can't really s I don't work with kids sleep, so I can't speak to it much except I can say

That in the teen years

Uh teen circadian clocks shift that opposite direction I was talking about, that delayed where their body wants them to go to bed later and sleep in later.

And wait, it's usually well in their twenties before it starts to kind of slip back.

And so what we try to do with kids, right, is we

When I was on that podcast in Singapore they were talking about raising their kids and one of the women, one of the speaker interviewers was saying that

She was very faithful when her kids came along to to use the Ferber book, to ferbarize her kids, to put 'em on a really strict schedule in bed and make 'em stay there and just cried himself to sleep and

And uh she has two or three kids.

I only have one.

I was incapable of ferberizing my kid.

I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

But but it's an example of how we we train children

to sleep into patterns that mimic what adults do.

And and more or less were pretty successful

in doing that.

So that also contributes to this myth that I have control over my own sleep.

I trained up my kids' sleep.

I should be able to train up mine too.

But but all we trained up was the environment and the behaviors and then the kids went to sleep when they did.

And we know of plenty of kids who

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