When school starts, getting children up has become a major issue for parents. In particular, some children are particularly abrasive, and it is difficult to wake up and "get up", all kinds of sprinkling and rolling, making you want to disappear in place.
So, for getting up and getting angry babies, this guide is worth your collection.
Adjust your mindset and understand your child's getting up
What is wake-up gas? It is a kind of sullenness that is inexplicably angry or someone disturbs sleep after getting up, which is usually used to describe a physiological emotional response after people get up, also known as "inertial sleep".
According to a study by the University of Minnesota in the United States, about 85% of children have wake-up gas, which peaks between the ages of 1 and a half and 3 years old, and lasts until about 4 years old.
There is a plot in the cartoon "Pink Panther": when it is time to get up in the morning, as soon as the alarm clock rings, the Pink Panther smashes the small alarm clock with a vise; then the radio rings again, and she immediately cuts the power cord; finally, the phone rings, and she directly pushes the phone to the ground...
Although the camera is a bit exaggerated, it truly reflects the child's "resentment" about getting up. Therefore, parents should learn to understand, accept, respect, and understand that when the child wakes up, especially when it is cold, the child's escalator-like emotional reaction has nothing to do with bad temper, but is just a physiological factor.
Find out why and avoid getting out of bed in advance
It is said that the child's getting up gas is not intentional, parents first adjust their mentality, and then to understand and accept the child's wake up gas, find the reason, so as to avoid the child's getting up gas in advance and have a good morning.
Trigger 1: Whether the child has enough sleep
According to the "2019 White Paper on Sleep Health for Adolescents and Children in China", the lack of sleep in contemporary adolescents and children is the norm, and a large number of children have difficulty getting out of bed. Lack of consciousness can lead to an increase in the rate of negative cognitive emotional reactions such as temper tantrums and anxiety.
Long-term poor sleep can affect all aspects of your child's behavior, such as memory loss, learning disabilities, difficulty in regulating emotions, decreased concentration, etc. The quality of children's sleep is directly related to good mood, so when the child habitually gets up and is difficult, the parent needs to observe whether the child has sleep problems, only if the sleep is sufficient, the child can have a sense of happiness and happiness index.
Trigger two: rough wake-up call
A boy who lives on the 12th floor, because he was dissatisfied with his mother lifting the quilt to wake him up, jumped directly from the 12th floor, but fortunately was stopped by the anti-theft net on the 11th floor, so as to avoid the tragedy.
Therefore, it is not advisable to directly lift the quilt, continuously roar, wake up with various noises, and even beat and scold the child. Although this way of waking up looks direct and fast, but the negative effect is also huge, the child in such a state for a long time, not only will help him get up, but also may lead to children nervous system disorders, insecurity, impulsive irritability, and even induce disease.
How to wake up the baby with wit and efficiency
Make sure you get enough sleep
Children aged 3-5 years should be guaranteed to sleep 10-13 hours a day, and children aged 6 to 12 years should sleep 9-12 hours a day.
Therefore, parents should make sleep schedules for their children, go to bed as early as possible at night, and let children develop some good sleep habits, such as washing children before going to bed, and then telling children some bedtime stories, or reading picture books together, so that if you insist on a period of time, a set of rituals completed The child knows that it is time to sleep.
Wake up your child in a gentle way
Give a ritual to wake up the child, for example, you can gently open a little curtain, let the light into the room, or play gentle music or gently call the child with a low voice, instead of those rough awakenings, let the child open his eyes in a full sense of happiness and welcome the new beauty.
Inform in advance and give buffer time
Parents can tell their children the time schedule for tomorrow the night before and tell them when they are going to get up, so that their children can have a psychological preparation. There is also the ability to wake up the child a few minutes in advance so that the child has a buffering process.
Wake up the child, understand the child's physiological reaction, do not label the child casually, in the matter of calling the child up, the parent's emotions and patience are very important.