Health Tip: What's Keeping Your Child Awake?: MedlinePlus

Health Tip: What's Keeping Your Child Awake?: MedlinePlus

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Health Tip: What's Keeping Your Child Awake?

Often, it's fear of the dark

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By Diana Kohnle

Monday, April 15, 2013

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• Child Mental Health
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(HealthDay News) -- Insomnia is often thought of as an adult problem. But children, too, can have sleepless nights.
The Nemours Foundation offers these potential causes for childhood insomnia:

• Being afraid of the dark.
• Having nightmares or bad dreams.
• Feeling stressed out or anxious about school or home life.
• Going through a major change in life, such as parents getting a divorce, moving, an illness or a death in the family.
• Being uncomfortable in some way, such as being too hot or too cold, hungry or too crowded in bed.

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