"Sleep, sleep, my baby, Mom is so sleepy..."
I remember when my son was a child, I used the tune of lullabies, filling in the words myself to coax him to sleep, but he was my "stick of the eye", and sometimes, my eyelids were just closed..." Mom- "He always had a way to pull me back from the comfortable hazy state to the "cruel reality".
Bedtime stories? That's it! lullaby? Ahem! Oh my God, I hypnotized myself! His eyes were shining, blinking, refusing to close, like little stars in the sky.
Image from "Mommy is going to have a baby"
During those days, I was really miserable. I know that there are individual differences in babies falling asleep, there are "easy to fall asleep" babies who fall asleep on time, there are "difficult to fall asleep" babies who don't sleep, I often comfort myself, son, should belong to the "majority" between the two.
Later, I deeply studied child psychology and learned that babies do not like to sleep, and they cannot sleep successfully, which is a particularly normal phenomenon, and those "other people's good babies" also have to go through this stage.
Out of primitive instinct, babies have a natural fear of the night. When you sleep, you can't see your relatives, you can't see toys and friends, you can't play well... What a lonely experience!
Babies really think that "sleeping" is a boring, a little annoying, and a little afraid of things.
"Why do you have to sleep?"
Therefore, obviously when it was time to go to bed, they still rubbed and rubbed and refused to go to bed; when they went to bed, they opened their small eyes and made various requests; they woke up in the middle of the night and had to look for their mothers... In fact, when everyone was a child, didn't they all survive like this?
A child who can be friends with the night and see sleep as a gift from nature to rest must understand the meaning of sleep. How can you make your baby fall in love with sleep from the bottom of your heart?
Fortunately, there are many picture books with sleep themes that can create a sleeping atmosphere and make it easy for children to fall asleep, but this kind of story is still a kind of "coaxing sleep" of external forces, and it cannot make children "want to sleep" from the heart, nor can they understand "what is the need for sleep".
So, although I have read a lot of picture books on the theme of sleep, I was pleasantly surprised to see the book "Superheroes Also Sleep Well".
Different angles of the "book of persuasion to sleep"
"Superheroes Must Sleep Well" is a "sleep book" with a completely different perspective, which allows children to perceive the meaning of sleep, and, from the bottom of their hearts, it turns out that sleeping is not a boring and annoying thing, but a must, even interesting and cool thing!
Open the picture book, the shining debut is the children's most admired, favorite Superman, he can do everything! However, the children found that he actually wanted to sleep well!
Next, "superheroes" from all walks of life came, doctors, astronauts, captains, policemen, scientists, rock and roll kings... Wow, these characters, but the kids like it the most!
The kids were amazed! All these "superheroes" have to do one thing, and even aspire to do one thing, that is, to sleep beautifully! It turns out that sleeping is a very important and interesting thing.
The children also know that their super powerful mothers also want to get a good night's sleep! Will babies still be moms' "sticks"?
Preschool children like to imitate the most, and how to do the role models in his heart is particularly important for children. "Superheroes" want to sleep, and the super babies must also sleep! Thinking this from the bottom of my heart, the babies began to yawn - "So sleepy! ”
Designed "Sleep Advice Book"
The language in "Superheroes Also Sleep Well" is a rhyme-filled nursery rhyme —
Mix the potion, put it in a test tube and beaker,
The chemical reactions are colorful to look at carefully,
Finally found a cure for whooping cough,
Great scientists also fall asleep.
Read it slowly, very hypnotic.
Each picture is presented in large spreads so that the child does not have to stare at the eyes and cannot see clearly, or because of the excitement of the details can not sleep.
The composition is exactly the same, the child listens to the adult reading the text, first sees what the person on the screen is doing, and then the line of sight will focus on the person sleeping in the lower right corner.
The pictures and plots have a fixed rhythm, and the pages are turned over and gently rush like waves.
The same gaze displacement, the same rhythm of language, the same "asleep" ending... Like the melody of a lullaby, it is constantly presented, and the children think over and over again, "Oh, he is asleep, he sleeps so well!" ”
Don't tell you that I want to sleep when I write this!
"Book of Persuasion to Sleep" for Developing Good Habits
A child's ability to sleep is closely related to the parenting methods and living habits of the parents. For example, don't play with electronics before bedtime. So, what can be done before bed to promote sleep and help children develop good habits that will benefit them for life?
At the back of the book there is a "Sleep Reward Form" (with bonus stickers).
The "superhero" has carefully listed things to do for babies before going to bed – going to the toilet, wearing pajamas, brushing their teeth, reading a book, getting into the bed, not only with good hygiene habits, but also with reading habits.
It should be known that bedtime stories can promote parent-child relationships, bring children a sense of security and love comfort, and also promote the development of various abilities such as language, mind, and emotions. There is a study in the United States that when hundreds of successful people grow up, what they have in common is that they listen to their fathers and mothers tell bedtime stories as children.
The "Obedient Sleep Reward Form" is convenient for parents to adopt the "token reward method" loved by preschool children, if the baby insists on sleeping on time, the corresponding sticker can be pasted in the form or drawn with the baby's favorite pattern.
Sticking to three days can reward listening to one more story; sticking to seven days, with seven days of small patterns, you can change for a family picnic on the playground lawn... The kids must be motivated!
"Superheroes" hope to make children develop good sleep habits, not only from the heart to sleep, but also to learn how to fall asleep and enjoy a good time before going to bed. What are you waiting for, come and read this book with the baby, the babies all think of this "cradle of the story" and the United States and the United States and the United States and the United States of America!