Introduction: Turning off the lights when sleeping is almost everyone's consensus, because in the process of sleep, there is too much light that will affect the autonomic nervous system of our body, thereby reducing the quality of our sleep. The impact on small babies and children is more serious, and the reduction of growth hormone and melatonin secretion will affect the child's physical development for a long time.
Therefore, parents hope that their children can have a good sleep, so that the child's physical development is not affected, but parents also find that some children will be accustomed to sleeping in the environment with the lights on. Two-and-a-half-year-old babies always wake up in the middle of the night and ask to turn on the lights to sleep, what is the reason for this? How do we correct it.
First of all, children will like to turn on the lights to sleep, which is mainly composed of two reasons: the legacy of sleeping habits when they are young and the acquisition of psychological security.
1, the sleep habits of childhood: most of this is formed in the infant period, when the baby is small, the mothers habitually turn on the lights at night to take care of the baby, coaxing, feeding, etc., which will make the baby have a type of psychological reaction. As long as there is a situation of waking up in the middle of the night, it is customary to want to turn on the light, which is a psychological cognition in the child's subconscious.
2, the acquisition of psychological security: whether it is a habit or not, children will always feel afraid and uneasy about the dark environment, and the bright environment will make the child feel more comfortable and at ease (usually when letting the child sleep by himself, are we also used to lighting a lamp for the child?). And it is precisely because of this that when the baby wakes up in the middle of the night facing the dark environment, he has a sense of dependence on turning on the lights.
Therefore, for babies, turning on the lights will make them get more rapid emotional stability when they wake up at night, and soothe the discomfort and uneasiness at night, which is a key psychological need point for children, otherwise they will make trouble and cry. So as parents, how do we correct our children's habits?
In this regard, parents should start from the correction of the child's psychological needs, the child wakes up in the middle of the night afraid of turning on the light to have a sense of security, this can be replaced, such as the mother's arms, plush dolls and so on. The role of this is to enable children's emotions to shift from the light to other things, so that children can quickly stabilize their emotions even in an environment without lights.
Of course, the key is to establish a good sleep habit for children, which requires us to adjust and cultivate step by step in our daily lives.
1. Start turning off the lights before your child falls asleep
Some parents may like to turn on the light to coax their children to sleep, which will actually distort the child's cognition of the sleeping environment, and if the child wants to adapt to the dark sleeping environment, it is necessary to turn off the lights from before falling asleep. This allows children to slowly accept such a process, and when they are fully accustomed, even if they wake up in the middle of the night, they will not be afraid of it.
2, give the child a quiet sleeping environment
Children will always wake up in the middle of the night because of the surrounding sleep environment, such as the sound of cars outside the window, daddy purring, etc., which will affect the child's sleep state. Giving children a relatively quiet sleep environment can allow children to have a longer sleep cycle, avoid waking up in the middle of the night, and even forming hidden sleep habits.
3. The child's sleep time should be reasonably arranged
The sleep time of two-and-a-half-year-old babies has been fixed, and the daily sleep time will not be as good as that of small babies, and the total sleep time of a day can be about 10 hours. Therefore, we must give the baby a reasonable time plan, do not sleep too early and do not sleep too late.
Important: The baby gets up in the middle of the night to turn on the light to sleep may be a legacy of the habit of infancy, or the child needs light to meet their own sense of security needs, for which parents should use other things to replace the light to meet the baby's psychological needs. The establishment of good sleep habits for babies requires the form of sleep on the lamp, a quiet sleeping environment and a reasonable sleep schedule.
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