Some people once joked that life in the world is nothing more than eating, drinking, sleeping and sleeping, which may sound a bit rough, but if you think about it, it is.
Eating and sleeping are prerequisites for ensuring people's normal lives, especially for developing children, their importance is self-evident. Take sleep, it is directly related to the growth and development of children, if there is not enough sleep time, then the harm to children is undoubtedly huge.
How late bedtime affects your child
1. Affect children's memory
Children who go to bed late will inevitably lead to no energy on the 2nd day due to less sleep time, and do not have enough energy to accept new things.
When children sleep less and irregularly, the development of the brain will lag behind, which will make their reaction force dull, resulting in relatively delayed intellectual development.
2. Affect the height of the child
There are many factors that affect a child's height, the most important of which is the parents' genes. But it is not absolute, since there are still 30% of factors that depend on the day after tomorrow, the main of which is sleep, which has surpassed diet and exercise, ranking 1st.
The growth hormone in the child's body will be secreted vigorously during their deep sleep, especially at the peak of secretion at two times at night, one time period is from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am, and the other time period is from 5:00 to 7:00 am in the morning. Of course, the secretion of growth hormone also has prerequisites, and people must be in deep sleep, which means that it will be secreted in large quantities after people fall asleep for half an hour to an hour.
Therefore, the best sleep time for children at night should be controlled at 8:00, and should not exceed 9:00 at the latest. Otherwise, the amount of growth hormone secreted in their body will be reduced, affecting their normal growth.
3. Make children mentally anxious
In psychology, life is distributed in a pyramid, in which sleep is at the bottom, that is, the most basic human need. If even such needs cannot be met, then people are bound to become restless.
For children, lack of sleep can affect their emotions, make them often lose their temper for no reason, and even make extreme behaviors, which will naturally affect their interpersonal communication and is not conducive to their normal life and study.
4. Hurt the child's heart
Children who go to bed late often have a feeling of exhaustion, which will make them feel uncomfortable, if this is done for a long time, the child's personality will become irritable, mood capricious, often in a state of excitement, resulting in an accelerated heartbeat and breathing, and an increase in blood pressure.
Although the negative effects may not be manifested in childhood, but in adulthood, it will cause some cardiovascular diseases, which are the causes of poor sleep habits in childhood, which can be seen to really affect people's lives.
5. Children often catch colds
In the state of sleep, the human body secretes a large number of proteins, which can make people's bodies strong, block the invasion of various bacteria from the outside world, and defeat germs and stress.
If you sleep too little, the number of these protein factors will decrease, making them immune system damaged and prone to frequent diseases such as colds.
6. It is easy to cause precocious puberty in children
Long-term late sleeping, the secretion of hormones and growth hormone in the child's body will be inhibited, thereby triggering precocious puberty.
Precocious puberty initially causes children to develop faster than their peers, but then becomes slower, resulting in them being lower in height than other children.
Parents' "retaliatory stay up late" can easily make children go to bed late
People who stay up late in retaliation know that staying up late is not good, but because the time spent during the day is dedicated to work, there is no time to do what they want to do, so at night they will cherish the only few hours, knowing that it hurts the body, they still enjoy playing with their mobile phones or watching TV, once to make up for the time they think they are wasted during the day.
This will naturally affect children invisibly, and they will learn the daily behavior habits of their parents and develop the habit of staying up late. Parents must set a good example for their children, and never consume their own energy while destroying their children's bodies on the other.
How long is it appropriate for your child to sleep?
The National Sleep Foundation has published a standard table of sleep duration
It lists the recommended sleep duration for the child for each time period, and the recommended sleep duration for the child.
How to get your child to bed early
1. Create a comfortable sleeping environment
Before going to bed, parents should help their children change into comfortable cotton pajamas, adjust the temperature in the room, not too high or too low; Close the curtains, turn off the light source, and let the light in the room be as dim as possible; Minimize the noise generated in the room as much as possible, but it should not be too quiet, as long as it does not interfere with the child's sleep.
2. Establish a small ritual before going to bed
Before the child goes to bed, parents should let the child develop a fixed bedtime habit, such as drinking milk, brushing teeth, going to bed, saying good night, and so on. These things are small, but if you keep doing them every day, you will let your child know that it is a sign that they are about to go to sleep. Only by forming the concept of self-falling asleep can children develop a good habit of going to bed early.
3. Parents sleep with them
When children are in infancy and early childhood, it is best for parents to be accompanied when they fall asleep. Many parents think that sitting next to their children is companionship, but they ignore that playing with their mobile phones will affect their children's normal sleep, not only the mobile phone will produce a certain amount of light, but also make the child feel uneven.
Put down the mobile phone, consistent with the child's schedule, is the right to sleep, if you really can't sleep, parents can take advantage of the child to fall asleep before getting up to do their own thing.