Every night, does your child go to bed at eleven or twelve o'clock, or eight or nine o'clock? Is it true that I heard that I can grow taller by going to bed early? Show you what science says!
Two golden hours to sleep, the child can grow taller!
How much sleep does your child have?
Let's look at the table below
Studies have shown that 70% of a child's height depends on the parent's genes and 30% depends on the day after tomorrow. Of these 30 percent external factors, sleep has the highest impact on height, beyond exercise and diet, as growth hormone is secreted during sleep.
What time does the child sleep?
Let's look at another picture
As you can see from the figure, the two periods with the most growth hormone secretion are 21:00-1:00 and 5:00-7:00, and if you are not asleep during these two periods, or have woken up, then you miss it.
These two time periods are essential for growing taller!
One is that from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next day, especially around 10 p.m., the secretion of growth hormone reaches the highest, which can reach 5-7 times that of the daytime. In addition, in the hour or two around 6 a.m., there is also a small peak in growth hormone secretion.
However, it is not as soon as 9 pm that growth hormone begins to secrete in large quantities on time, and its large secretion must have a premise: it will only occur when you are deeply asleep. If you haven't gone to bed yet, or you've gone to bed but haven't fallen asleep yet, or you've fallen asleep but haven't fallen into a deep sleep, its secretion will be greatly reduced. So the later you sleep, the less growth hormone you secrete, which is less detrimental to your child's height. People generally fall asleep for half an hour to 1 hour before entering a state of deep sleep.
So the advice of experts is: to make the child tall, it is best to go to bed before 8:30 pm, no later than 9:30 pm, and get up after 7 am.
How do I get my child to go to bed early?
The first trick: create a sleeping atmosphere at home
If the family goes to bed late, the sound of TV and conversation will come and go, making the child feel that it is not time to go to bed. It is recommended that parents go to bedtime to create a sleeping atmosphere for their children, including dimming the lights, turning off the TV, adults no longer talk about it, and even need to fall asleep together, so that the child feels that it is time to sleep.
Parents can also let their children do some preparations for sleeping, such as brushing their teeth, washing their faces, washing their feet, making the bed, etc., this process seems simple, but it is a psychological cue to the child, so that they know that it is time to sleep.
Trick 2: Avoid brain excitement an hour before going to bed
Many children still play so much at bedtime that their brains can't sleep when they lie in bed. It is generally recommended that parents do not play too crazy an hour before the child goes to bed, do not play games that make the brain excited, such as playing hide-and-seek with the child, it is best to adjust the child's emotions to a calm mode, such as the mother can tell the child bedtime stories, play soothing music before going to bed, hum nursery rhymes, etc., which will help the child to cultivate sleep emotions and reduce the time required to fall asleep.
Third trick: don't sleep too long during the day
Most children who sleep too long during the day do not sleep well at night, and studies have confirmed that children who do not sleep enough at night and are sleepy during the day not only grow and develop slowly, but also have relatively poor attention, memory, creativity and motor skills. If the child sleeps too much during the day, parents can consciously wake up the child, overcome the "black and white upside down" by adjusting, and avoid letting the child sleep for three or four hours or even longer.
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