Most children have at least occasional trouble sleeping.
Their necessary medications also often interfere with sleep. He also provides tested strategies for change. Trouble falling asleep and staying asleep, sleeping at the wrong times, nightmares and sleep terrors, excessive sleepiness, bedwetting, daytime behavior problems such as impulsivity, and medications, are among the problems he discusses. He includes a sleep diary and behavior log, particularly useful to show parents potential sources of problems that can be corrected. A sleep diary for a mentally retarded boy whose parents and teachers were concerned about his daytime fatigue, for example, showed that he had no set bedtime.