“Mirror, mirror on the wall,” it’s a popular line in the Snow White fairy tale, but for Kaylee Cornwell, this child-friendly mirror was the beginning of some bigger problems.

“I was afraid something was going to pop out at me,” she says. Kaylee would find herself lying awake at night, “and then I would get grumpy in the morning. Really grumpy.” “She’d stay up late, in turn, would cause her to have waking issues, and things like that. Also, with concentration at school,” admits her father, Justin.

Justin contacted LMHS pediatric neurologist Dr. Jose Colon, concerned about his daughter who is normally energetic and happy. Turns out, it was her bedroom that was keeping her awake. “Our beds need to be our place for sleep and that’s it. When you watch TV in bed, when you talk on the phone in bed, when teens text message their friends in bed, when children play with toys in their bed, when you don’t make your bed, when you don’t clean your room, when you spend a lot of time in your room on the internet, you lose association with bed and sleep,” adds Dr. Colon.

So the doctor prescribed a bedroom makeover: removing some of the items that were keeping her up at night. “Changes like the mirror over here, which used be right here, where that was up and that was really freaking me out,” says Kaylee.

The mirror wasn’t the only trouble spot. Next Thursday on Health Matters, we take a closer look at children’s rooms and some items doctors say could be keeping your child up at night. Consult your own child’s doctor if you find they are having trouble sleeping at night, which will help narrow down the problem.