About half of children have used a pacifier; strategies to reduce pacifier use or thumb-sucking range from hiding pacis to using deterrents like hot sauce Pacifiers and thumb-sucking can help soothe ...

Younger children — including 18 percent of elementary school kids — are being given melatonin by their parents as a sleep aid, too Regular use of melatonin to help kids sleep has become “exceedingly ...

Experts say that using a pacifier may help reduce your baby’s risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). But that doesn’t mean those binkies are risk-free. In fact, a viral post on Facebook is ...

TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Erin Andrews guess whether a quirky trend is real or completely made up in a game of Trend or Pretend. Topics include adult pacifiers to induce sleep, people ...

Getting your little one to sleep through the night can be tough. Around 30% of toddlers struggle with sleep, and that means a lot of tired parents dealing with bedtime battles. A simple night light ...

Researchers at Brown University found that many Rhode Island kids sleep less than their parents realize, with Latino children ...

Regular use of melatonin to help kids sleep has become "exceedingly common," with nearly 1 in 5 adolescents (19 percent) using it, according to research published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. But ...