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Child insomnia is something pretty much every family has to go through at one point or another. Pretty much every child has worries and anxieties from time to time. When all of these worries build up, they can be overwhelming or even terrifying. Children start to worry about death, the bogeyman, aliens, and monsters in the closet. Together, all of these worries can quickly add up to a sleepless night or two.

In most cases, child insomnia goes away on its own, or only affects the kid once or twice a month. Sometimes, however, childhood insomnia stays around. As bad as sleep disorders can be for adults, they are an even bigger problem for kids. Kids who are unable to sleep are unable to learn and interact in a normal way. Some sleep experts even go as far as saying that childhood insomnia can set your kid back intellectually, emotionally, and developmentally.

Fortunately, there are a lot of different ways to treat child insomnia, and some combination of them usually works. One of the most common cures, of course, is the bedtime stories. Parents have been telling stories to their children since ancient times ? probably before the invention of writing. Nowadays, a lot of families are too busy to read bedtime stories, and the kids suffer as a result. Sometimes, all it takes is ten minutes or so of reading, and the kid is out like a light.

There are also soothing herbal cures for child insomnia. If you can, you want to avoid giving your kid sleeping pills and other heavy narcotics, but there is nothing wrong with a mug of chamomile tea or a glass of hot milk. We tend to go to extremes in our culture, but sometimes all you need is something warm and soothing to put you to sleep for the night.

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Then again, from time to time families have to go with a more involved, high tech solution to child insomnia. I have a good friend whose children are both terrible insomniacs. He tried reading to them, talking to them about worries, making them mug after mug of tea, and everything else he could think of, but nothing seemed to work. Then, he decided to invest in a white noise generator from some high tech gadget store. He did it as sort of a last ditch attempt but, wouldn’t you know it, the thing worked. It has a timer, so he can set it to play for about 20 minutes every night while his kids are falling asleep. By the time it stops making noise, they are always well on their way to dreamland. He has even been thinking about getting one for himself recently.