Mom and Dad often stay up late,
Children will also have the habit of staying up late.
Mobile phones, tablets, TVs to play, watch,
Lack of self-control,
Coursework is stressful and burdensome,
More and more cases of children staying up late...
Sleep less than 8 hours a day. Lack of sleep and frequent staying up late are bound to affect the physical and mental health of children.
What are the dangers of children staying up late?
1. Affect children's body height
A very critical harm of staying up late is to affect the development of children, the growth and development of children, in addition to genetic factors, nutrition, exercise, etc., but also related to the amount of growth hormone secretion.
At night, the child has the most growth hormone secretion, and if the child has not rested at this time, it will affect the secretion of growth hormone. Ensure enough sleep time every day, and in general, children can grow taller.
2. Reduces the body's immunity
While children stay up late, their body organs are also staying up late, such as the child's heart and brain, which are still in the stage of development, always overloaded, and it is easy to leave hidden dangers. Children who often lack sleep will have weaker and weaker resistance, and may also have symptoms of no appetite and lack of energy.
3. Affect the creativity of the brain
Without adequate sleep, it is difficult for children to fully concentrate. Some parents know that if the child is sleepless, he will always look absent-minded and sometimes forget things. If you stay up late for a long time, it may also affect your child's intellectual development! And if you stay up late at night, you will also be sleepy during class during the day, which will affect your academic performance.
4. Affect mental health
If your child does not get enough sleep, he will be more likely to lose his temper. In the case of lack of sleep, there will also be getting up, and it is more difficult to wake up. In serious cases, there will also be psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety, and nervousness.
Why do children "sleep badly"?
Surveys show that most of the reasons why children stay up late are as follows
1. Heavy coursework burden
Children's homework is more and more, coupled with their own procrastination habits, often write homework until late at night.
2, the temptation of electronic products
Before going to bed, I still clamored to watch TV and play with my mobile phone, and I couldn't stop playing.
3. Bad sleep habits
Before going to bed, I was too excited, too excited, and I couldn't fall asleep in bed for a long time.
The next morning I couldn't get out of bed, I didn't eat breakfast when I got up, I was in a hurry on the way to school, I was sleepy all day, I couldn't concentrate on class, and I came home from school in a vicious circle of staying up late to do my homework.
How to help your child develop good sleep habits?
1. Establish a sense of falling asleep ritually
When it is time to sleep, parents should dim the lights, turn off electronic devices, and create a suitable sleeping environment, because noise, lights and air will also affect their children's sleep.
Scientists have investigated the bedtime habits of more than 600 children aged 3-5: Those with sleep problems are often still watching TV after 7 o'clock. Therefore, parents try not to let children play mobile phones before going to bed, one will make the child's brain excited, and the other is that the blue light on the screen will affect the secretion of melatonin and disturb the body's biological clock.
Parents can work with their children to establish a set of "bedtime procedures", such as bathing, pulling curtains, telling stories, hugging, kissing, saying goodnight, etc., using these "signals" to quiet the child's body and remind themselves that "I am going to sleep after doing these things".
2. Help your child build a belief: The bed can only be a place to sleep
Many family beds take on too many functions, in addition to sleeping, or building blocks, study platforms, trampolines, slides and so on. In this way, after the child goes to bed, he will want to do something more and refuse to fall asleep.
Therefore, try not to pile up debris on the bed, let alone let the child play in the bed, help the child to carry out "situational training" with the bed - as long as he gets to the bed, he will produce the conditioned reflex of "I want to be quiet and ready to sleep", which is more conducive to falling asleep as soon as possible.
3. Try to fix the sleep time
The development of the biological clock takes a while, so parents try to stipulate the time for children to sleep and get up, so that the child's body can develop regularity. Parents should let their children know that it is not necessary to sleep when they are tired, but that they must sleep when the time comes. For example, if you decide to go to bed at 21:00, you must go to bed at 20:30, and when you get to bed, don't do anything unrelated to sleep.
4. Firmly enforce your sleep rules
Once the sleep rules are established, the parent's execution is more important than the child's compliance.
It is not recommended to ignore the child's sleep time when going on vacation and arbitrarily modifying sleep habits because of the child's needs. Some children can't sleep after lying in bed, and they will get up or run out from time to time for these reasons: "I want to drink water." "I want to go to the bathroom again." "I have a good idea, do you want to listen?"
In this case, parents can make some "permission tickets" for their children, such as the right to use only three "permission tickets" after going to bed every night, and each request will be used up until it is used up. In general, most children can abide by such a game-like convention.