If you tell your child’s pediatrician that your child is having trouble sleeping, she might respond by asking you how well you sleep yourself.

A team of Finnish researchers found that parents with poor sleep quality tended to report more sleep-related difficulties in their children than parents who slept well. But when the researchers looked at an objective monitor of the children’s sleep, using a bracelet similar to a commercial fitness tracker that monitored movement acceleration, a measure of sleep quality, they found that the parents were often reporting sleep problems in their children that didn’t seem to be there. To read more from KJ DELL’ANTONIA click here.