Coaching practices for How Do I Stop My Child From Grinding His Teeth While Sleeping

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• I wake up with a bone-dry mouth and a partner who says I snored all night, and I sleep a full eight hours but still feel unrested
• By bedtime I’m already dreading another bad night, and the harder I try to force myself to sleep
• The second I’m not asleep by a certain hour my mind starts screaming that tomorrow is ruined, that I have to get my eight hours or I’ll fall apart
• I want to stop the bedtime scroll, but if I just lie there with nothing my mind races, so I keep reaching for the phone again because I don’t know what else to do with that wind-down hour.
• Every time I wake in the night I check the clock and immediately start the math

Practices that may help

1. Mouth taping during sleep
   Place a small strip of paper tape over your lips at bedtime to encourage nasal breathing through the night.
   Nasal Breathing for Performance
2. Break the anxiety-about-sleep loop
   Interrupt the cycle where worrying about not sleeping becomes the main reason you can not sleep.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
3. Challenge the beliefs that make insomnia self-perpetuating
   Identify and revise the catastrophic beliefs about sleep that amplify arousal at bedtime.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
4. Replace phone scrolling with a physical book at bedtime
   A physical book provides relaxation without blue light, notifications, or the variable-reward loop.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
5. Stop watching the clock during the night
   Remove or hide the clock to stop the "calculating how much sleep I have left" loop that activates the brain.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
6. Use the bed only for sleep (and sex)
   Reserve the bed strictly so the brain learns to associate it with sleepiness, not wakefulness.
   Stimulus Control for Sleep
7. Counting distraction during havening
   Count aloud or silently while stroking to occupy the verbal mind and prevent rumination.
   Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch
8. The Pre-Sleep Worry Buffer
   Use a 10-minute afternoon or early evening worry review to protect sleep from nighttime rumination.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
9. Set a screen cutoff time
   Pick a consistent hour to put screens away and protect the wind-down window.
   The Digital Sunset
10. Charge your phone outside the bedroom permanently
    The phone charges overnight in another room — this single change eliminates four pathways of sleep disruption simultaneously.
    The Phone-Free Bedroom

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