"Hope for the son to become a dragon, hope for the daughter to become a phoenix" is the long-cherished wish of many parents, for parents, there is a high-IQ child, can be described as a great joy from heaven.
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The study found that the child's IQ level, in addition to being related to genetic genes, family education environment, diet and other factors, sleep time also played a very important role in it.
Is a child's IQ also related to sleep time?
According to expert analysis, the more children who sleep enough, the stronger the memory tends to be, and the IQ will be relatively higher.
Relevant data support:
1. Dr. Lewis of Stanford University has surveyed and sampled the sleep duration of more than 600 children with high IQs and more than 2,000 children with relatively low IQs. In the end, it was found that those children with high IQ tended to sleep longer on average.
2. Japan has also done a survey of thousands of preschool children, and the results show that children with excellent grades during school have an average sleep time of significantly longer per day.
3. An expert also found that 61% of children who slept less than 8 hours a day had limited memory, difficulty concentrating in class, and relatively poor grades through a large number of samples;
Children who sleep more than 10 hours have good grades and even achieve excellent results, and only 13% have poor grades.
Therefore, experts believe that children's intellectual development and school performance are actually closely related to sleep. How exactly does sleep affect IQ?
Scientific explanation
A: The brain needs enough rest to function better
The study found that the brain consumes more energy than other organs of the human body, accounting for about 20%, so if you want the brain to be able to transport efficiently, it is particularly important to ensure adequate sleep.
It contributes to the recovery of the prefrontal cortex of the brain and strengthens the connection with the brain neurons, so that it can function better during the day, the child's memory and concentration will be stronger, and the efficiency of learning will naturally be higher.
If you often stay up late and let the brain fall into an overloaded state of work, its neurons are often not active enough, and may even gradually shrink, resulting in the child's sleepiness on the second day, not to mention, and may become sluggish.
B: Getting enough sleep helps to improve the body's memory
Smart children are even more gifted in memory, reading books, newly learned knowledge, hearing conversations, for this information, they can often quickly remember, and then filter the information, digest and absorb.
Studies have found that adequate sleep is helpful to increase the body's memory capacity and enhance memory capacity.
And the better the quality of sleep, after entering deep sleep, the more "sleep waves" the brain obtains, the better the hippocampus responsible for "memory" works, it can help the brain better cover "invalid or expired" information, so that the child's memory capacity is more.
In summary, we can see that sleep is very important for children. If you want your child's memory to improve and your brain to be smarter, you need to start with sleep.
In terms of cultivating children's good work and rest, parents can take good care of them
Everyone understands the truth of going to bed early and getting up early, but only a few can really do it. For children whose physical development and brain development are at their peak, a good sleep habit is more important, and parents can take good care of it.
Sleep experts at the University of London, a prestigious university, have found that children who fall asleep before 9 p.m. are relatively prominent in their ability to read and arithmetic.
Adequate sleep makes the children's brains more active during the day, the ability to process information is much better than that of children who sleep late, and the body's resistance is also stronger.
After talking about it so much, I hope that parents and children should pay attention to it and make good use of sleep. In particular, pay attention to ensuring the quality of sleep, usually the first half of the child's sleep, the frequency of deep sleep is more, this time helps the child's brain to be restored, and the hippocampus filters out "invalid" information.
How to get your child to have good sleep habits?
1. Cultivate children's sleep awareness first
Don't let the children's brains get too excited before going to bed, don't let them touch electronic products, or read scary, exciting books, you can let them preview the textbook knowledge, or read story books to help ease their emotions and prepare for the next sleep.
2. Slowly adjust the biological clock
During the day, let the child sleep less, and at night, slowly let them learn to get used to going to bed early, here, parents should not forget to be a good role model, but also try to get used to going to bed early and getting up early, so that children can follow the learning.
3. Create a good sleeping atmosphere
The "Six Golden Sleep Methods" released by the World Sleep Association have mentioned: "The bedroom temperature is 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, and the humidity is 60 to 70%, which helps the human body to enter the sleep state faster." ”
In addition, you can choose to black out the curtains at home as much as possible, these small methods help to create a good sleeping atmosphere, let the child's body relax, as soon as possible to fall asleep Oh ~ ~ ~
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