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Children's sleep problems have always attracted the attention of parents, and what time is the best time for children to sleep, which has triggered heated discussions among parents.
In this regard, the Ministry of Education issued a document to make it clear that primary school students can not go to class earlier than 8:20, and middle school students cannot go to class earlier than 8:00, in addition, it also gives clear standards for the sleep duration, bedtime and nap time of primary and secondary school students.
What time does your child sleep, which is best for brain and body development?
Ensuring that children have enough sleep time can not only ensure their physical health, but also have many benefits for brain development and intelligence improvement.
When people are asleep, all organs can get full rest, and at the same time secrete growth hormones, the impact on height is also very obvious, and the amount of hormone secretion is also related to time.
Studies have shown that during the period of 21:00-1:00 and 5:00-7:00, the secretion of growth hormone reaches its peak, but at this time the child is awake, then the growth hormone will not be secreted, which directly affects the height of the child.
Sleep time also affects brain development, especially in the early childhood stage, children who lack sleep time have difficulty concentrating and reacting slowly when learning and playing.
When sleeping, all parts of the human body are self-repairing and adjusting, sleeping well the next day is more energetic, long-term sleep quality is poor, lack of sleep, will make the body's immunity drop significantly, more likely to get sick.
For children, going to bed at 8:30 p.m. to prepare for bed, falling asleep at 9 o'clock, and waking up after 7 a.m. can ensure that the body secretes enough growth hormone, and the body development and brain development can reach the most ideal state. But the reality is that most children have a hard time following this standard.
Why do today's children always "sleep badly"?
Learning tasks are heavy:
Nowadays, the phenomenon of internal volume in society has long spread to students, just to complete the homework assigned by the school is already very late, and then some children still have to run between make-up classes, and sleeping late has long been accustomed.
Parents sleep late:
Some parents sleep late, even if they do not play mobile phones or brush dramas, it will also affect the quality of their children's sleep, and more parents directly take their babies to play together, this wrong demonstration has a greater impact.
Not developing good sleep habits:
From an early age, sleep habits will determine the child's final routine, parents should help the baby develop good habits from an early age, have a regular, healthy work and rest time.
What should parents do for their children to sleep better?
Develop a good habit of taking a nap from an early age
Nap is to let children have more energy in the afternoon, many children who do not nap because of fatigue, resulting in the evening is not easy to fall asleep.
And the nap time is best not more than 2 hours, do not force the child to sleep, if you really can't sleep, you can give the child a small toy, play and play to fall asleep.
Stick to the right amount of activity every day
Adequate exercise is the best hypnotic master for children, and children are the age of energy, do not always stay in the house.
To ensure that the child has about 1 hour of exercise time every day, even if it is just running and jumping, it can promote physical development, and the sleep state at night will become better.
Enter "Sleep Mode" early
Many parents firmly believe that children will sleep when they are tired and sleepy, so they often "toss" their children before going to bed. But in fact, if the child is too excited before going to bed, it is difficult to calm down and fall asleep, even if it is not stable.
It is best to stabilize your child's mood an hour or two before going to bed, do not let your child be too excited, and let the body enter "sleep mode" as soon as possible, so that you can fall asleep faster.
The sense of ritual before bedtime can not be less
The so-called bedtime ritual is actually to let the child enter the state, such as washing before going to bed, reading stories, listening to songs, etc., so that the child's mood is stable and calm, and when lying in bed, it can be quiet and ready to sleep.
For developing children, quality sleep is not only reflected in time, if the child really can't sleep or doesn't want to sleep, parents force their children to go to bed early will only increase the child's fear and resistance.
The core of quality sleep should be regular and adequate
For example, the family is late after work and school, then before going to bed for high-quality parent-child interaction, it does not matter if the child sleeps late for a while, the key is to maintain a consistent law, can not sleep early today, sleep late tomorrow.
In addition, each child's physique may be different, the length of sleep required is not the same, do not ask the child to sleep for a long time, mainly depending on the state of the child every day, there is no listless performance, even if the time is shorter, there is no problem.
Sleep is a very inconspicuous thing, but the quality of sleep determines people's emotions, concentration, physical fitness and other aspects, sleep is very simple, but the quality of sleep is difficult to guarantee, parents must pay attention to it!
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