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Stop competing
ERB scores aren’t the only thing New York parents like to brag about; we also tend to compete over how little sleep we need, says Ebben. “There is a prejudice in our country against people who sleep a lot, and patients are always coming to me saying, ‘My friend gets by on only six hours of sleep a night. Why can’t I?’ What they don’t understand is that we each have a certain sleep need. Some people need six hours of sleep, and others need nine. It’s like your height—you’re born with it and you’re stuck with it.”
Save worries for daylight
As soon as your head hits the pillow, are you overrun with thoughts about work, your child’s alarming obsession with Bratz, the latest kerfuffle with the PTA? Walsleben recommends packing those thoughts away in a notebook. “Take 15 minutes during the day to write what you’re worried about on the left side of the page, and on the right side write one positive action that you can do to address it. Then close the book and put it away,” she advises. “When you go to bed, you can say, ‘I don’t have to think about that, I already worried about it.’ ”
