The parenting paradox: why modern parents feel exhausted, even if they get enough sleep?

The parenting paradox: why modern parents feel exhausted, even if they get enough sleep?

“Very. Extremely tiring and it’s constant,” wrote one commentator, and hundreds of others agreed with this comment, giving it a “Like”.

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Today, parents feel exhaustingly tired for many reasons – and not all of them are related to sleep. Many families raise children almost without broader community support, and parents have to combine work with childcare.

Of course, sleep habits also change after having children – due to night feedings or a toddler who starts the day at 5 AM.

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Since people have been raising children since the beginning of humanity, it might seem obvious that parents have suffered from sleep deprivation for millennia. However, available data suggests that this was likely not the case.

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What did our ancestors do differently, and could we learn anything from them?

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