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☆ How to Help a Teen Who Can’t Sleep
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With packed schedules, school days that kick off at 8 a.m. and the lure of screens, it’s little wonder that many adolescents in the United States don’t get enough sleep. And more than one in five adolescents grapple with insomnia, characterized by problems falling asleep, staying asleep or getting sufficient quality sleep (or some combination thereof). “There are two basic things that happen” when teens hit puberty, said Dr. Judith Owens, the director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. “The first is that there’s a shift in their natural circadian rhythms, so their natural fall asleep time and wake time shift later — by up to a couple of hours. The second thing that happens is their sleep drive slows.” So not only do adolescents want to stay up later, but their bodies are actually capable of doing so, she explained.

☆ A New Breast Pumping Law Has Gone Into Effect. Here’s What It Means.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Alisha Haridasani Gupta | Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last week, expanded protections for nursing mothers, officially known as the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act, or PUMP Act, went into full effect, giving more workers the right to break time and a private space to pump. Building on a 2010 law, which compelled employers to provide breastfeeding accommodations, the PUMP Act was introduced in Congress in 2021. Support grew last summer amid the baby formula shortage and after the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines that support breastfeeding for two years or more. “Part of the reason for that is that if you’re not emptying your breasts regularly, your milk supply goes down. And if your milk supply goes down, gradually, breastfeeding ceases.”

☆ The Emotional Relief of Forgiving Someone
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For someone who’s led a charmed life, my 8-year-old can hold a serious grudge. One set received a forgiveness workbook with exercises they completed on their own. Then write it again as more of an observer, without emphasizing how bad the wrongdoer was or how you felt victimized. Those in the control group waited for two weeks before receiving the workbook. When the two weeks were up, researchers found that those participants who’d completed the workbook felt more forgiving than those in the control group — and had reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression.

☆ How a Relationship Coach Resolves Conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

She narrates her feelings. When Ms. Earnshaw feels an argument brewing with her husband, she tells him — out loud — what she is feeling both physically and emotionally. For example, she might say something like, “Right now, I am talking a mile a minute because I am so angry, and I want to yell.”Describing her feelings lets both of them know that she is on the verge of lashing out or shutting down (which could escalate the argument further) and that she needs time to reset.

GREEN LIGHT Go ahead and use those broccoli stalks. YOU’VE PROBABLY heard of the “nose-to-tail” approach that uses all the edible parts of an animal, not just the familiar steaks and chops. Not because I’m a vegetable rights campaigner, mind you, but because we’re trying to eliminate food waste. And fortunately, with many vegetables, the part you usually throw away (or hopefully compost) can be the most delicious. The Italians are broccoli champions, with regional varieties growing in every home garden.

Economic worries have made this holiday season particularly stressful for some. The holiday season can bring out the absolute worst in some kids. Some parents welcome that break from structure, and that’s OK. “Parents get to decide what works and what doesn’t work with their family,” Dr. Naumburg said. “Gratitude and savoring are the opposite.”Dr. Kurtz recommended starting a simple gratitude practice early in the holiday season. As the holidays unfold, make an effort to savor the season, Dr. Kurtz said.

Some 83 percent of babies in the United States start out on breast milk, but by 6 months, just 56 percent are breastfed — and at that stage, only a quarter drink breast milk exclusively, as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. To find out what it takes to breastfeed a baby, The New York Times followed four mothers for a day as they nursed, pumped and supplemented their milk with formula. Dr. Ma returned to work four weeks after her oldest daughter’s birth and two weeks after her second arrived. While performing long operations, she leaked breast milk under her surgical gown. Now her hours are more reasonable, and she has an office with a door that locks — but Dr. Ma still feels relentless pressure to keep up.

THE FIRST TIME I had caviar with potato chips, it was at Air’s Champagne Parlor, shortly after the Greenwich Village wine bar opened in 2017. A mere half-ounce of caviar dressed up thin potato chips dipped in crème fraîche. I’d always regarded caviar as expensive, decadent, and here I was scooping it with the housemade equivalent of Pringles. That high-low juxtaposition was intended to make caviar “approachable and not scary,” recalled Air’s proprietor, Ariel Arce. During the pandemic, Ms. Arce went on to launch a caviar company of her own, CaviAIR, aiming to bring the “cool factor to fish eggs.”

☆ How I Hold It Together: Guided Runs and More
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

How I Hold It Together: Guided Runs and MoreI get at least 7 hours of sleep ��My older son is an early bird who gets up by 6 a.m., so I’ve become disciplined about being asleep by no later than 11 p.m. every night. I put on a white noise machine and a just-boring-enough podcast, and I’m out. I limit my notifications ��I’m easily overwhelmed by the dings and pings coming from my electronic devices, so I snooze Slack during non-work hours and have stopped using apps like Apple News. I also go through my personal email every two or three months and unsubscribe from lists that no longer give me joy.

☆ The Parental Burnout Test
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-06 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The past two-plus years have been relentless for working parents, who have frequently been placed in the impossible position of doing their jobs and parenting simultaneously. And a recent survey, by researchers with Ohio State University, suggests they have paid a steep emotional price. In 2021, 66 percent of working parents met the criteria for parental burnout — a nonclinical term that basically means they were so physically and mentally depleted that they may feel like bad parents or emotionally pull away from their children. The researchers based their findings on an online survey of 1,285 working parents who responded to their 10-question “Working Parent Burnout Scale.” The test is a tool that moms and dads can use to assess whether their burnout goes beyond the fatigue that all parents feel at some point — and just how serious it is. “It’s this constant feeling of having to be on, 24/7,” said Kate Gawlik, an associate professor of clinical nursing at the Ohio State University College of Nursing and a co-author of the report.

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