Macall Gordon

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So we do know, for instance, that kids with autism have a less powerful melatonin release.

So sort of biochemically, they're a little bit

you know, at a disadvantage because they're not getting this super strong signal from their body that they're tired.

Other kids are so busy, they're so busy and so engaged and they're going so strong, they just don't want they don't want to disengage.

So that first signal of like, oh no, I'm tired doesn't happen.

And if parents are waiting for that, they're waiting too long.

And then

What I say is that if a kid goes past what they actually can do in terms of

Time awake?

Their body sort of releases a chemical that's like giving them a little red bull, right?

And then they're then they're powering up and then all sleep, you know.

We know what it feels like to try to go to sleep after you've had too much coffee.

You you can't, even though you're tired.

So just understanding that kids, um, up to a certain age, you know, uh, maybe I don't know.

I don't know what the age would be.

I want to say like

fourth, fifth, sixth grade, kids really do need an early bedtime because that takes advantage of this melatonin release.

So if parents are saying, Well look, I uh we try to get her in bed by eight, but it never is, you know, it doesn't happen.

She doesn't go to sleep till ten.

I always back up that bedtime routine actually earlier, not later, because it's possible you've missed, you've missed her little lull.

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