We always emphasize the importance of sleep for children, but we ignore that sleeping is also a method. If you just simply pursue sleep time, it is difficult for children to have an ideal height, but it may be because of the wrong practices of parents, resulting in unsatisfactory height development of children.
Ms. Zhou's son is a small fat mound from childhood to adulthood, in the eyes of outsiders, everyone is very envious of this little boy who can eat and sleep, but Ms. Zhou always feels that the child's body is too fat and wants to control the child's diet.
However, children have developed the habit of eating and drinking heavily, and even if they eat less, they will feel uncomfortable. Coupled with the opposition of the elderly in the family, Ms. Zhou did not insist anymore, but did not expect to inadvertently affect the normal growth of the child.
Soon Ms. Zhou found that her son's height was much shorter than her peers, she felt very strange, her son can eat so much, the quality of sleep is good, how can he not grow up to other children?
Anxious, she quickly took the child to the hospital for examination, but she did not expect that the conclusion given by the doctor was that the child ate too much before going to bed, resulting in the inhibition of growth hormone in the body, so it would not grow tall.
At the doctor's suggestion, Ms. Zhou canceled her son's supper. At the same time, she also told her girlfriend Ms. Wang about this matter. Ms. Wang's child has just entered kindergarten middle class, and she used to let her child drink a cup of milk every night before going to bed, and now when she hears Ms. Zhou say this, she quickly stops her daughter's milk.
Why does full sleep affect the growth of your child's size?
People rely on the secretion of growth hormone in the body to grow taller, but when the blood sugar in the child's body is too high, the secretion of growth hormone will be inhibited. If a child drinks milk or eats before going to bed, it will naturally cause their blood sugar to rise, which will affect their height.
In addition, full sleep will make children feel uncomfortable, if you carefully observe the parents will find that children who eat too much before going to bed will often sleep unsteadily. If the child cannot be in a deep sleep at night, then the growth hormone secreted in their body will be reduced, which will naturally lead to the child's small size.
How can I make my child taller?
1. Pay attention to diet
We all know that calcium can promote the development of children's bones, so parents should let their children eat more foods with high calcium content. Of course, at the same time, we must also pay attention to the child's diet is comprehensively balanced, try to match the child's diet as reasonably as possible, when the child can fully absorb nutrients, the size will naturally not be short.
2. Strengthen the movement
Exercise not only allows children to have a strong body, but also makes children taller. We generally say that 70% of a child's height depends on congenital factors and 30% depends on acquired factors. Among the acquired factors, exercise is a very important aspect, especially some bouncy sports, which will greatly help the child's size growth.
3. Control the time to eat before going to bed
In general, we recommend eating as little as possible before your child goes to sleep, so as to ensure that your child's abdomen is in a relatively empty state before going to bed. When the child falls asleep, the blood sugar is low, the growth hormone secretion in the body will be more vigorous, and the child's height development is naturally more ideal.
The time to eat before going to bed is chosen according to your child's age and eating habits:
Children before the age of 3, according to the child's development, gradually quit night milk, and slowly transition to about 1 hour before going to bed to drink milk.
Children aged 3-6 years old, slowly develop a regular three-meal meal, avoid eating indigestible foods or foods with high carbs for 3 hours before going to bed, and try to reduce the rise in blood sugar levels. If you still have the habit of drinking milk, drink it 2 hours before going to bed this year.
Children over the age of 6, you can start to move closer to the adult's eating habits, after dinner to avoid additional eating, if dinner is not full, be sure to add meals, but also try to control the amount of children's food, eat some good digestible food to reduce the burden of the stomach and intestines.
We all know that sleep is very important for children, but parents must also grasp a degree, what children eat at night, how much to eat, when to eat, all need to pay attention.
Raising children is no small matter, and parenting has a long way to go.