If parents will talk about their kids I am sure they will definitely talk about two things. 1. Feeding issues and 2. Sleeping trouble.
Doesn’t matter your kid is either 1 year old or 7 years old they will surely don’t like sleeping Time.
Your kid will be playing very nicely until you will say “it’s Sleeping Time Baby!!!”
So what to do? We should let them awake till the time they want? Or we should force them to sleep?
Letting awake till the time they will be ready might seems good idea to you, but the truth is it is not at all a good idea at the end. Reasons are
- Kids normally don’t have idea whether they are sleepy or not so they will try to stretch themselves beyond their limit.
- Kids don’t like to sleep as they don’t know the concept of time. They feel if they will sleep now they will miss lots of things. They don’t have the idea of tomorrow so they won’t be ready to sleep ever.
- It will affect your kids’ health.
- Because of incomplete sleep your kids will be difficult to handle.
- Your kids will face troubles in concentrating the things. Result it decreases their grade.
Few parents complain that their kids’ are not listening to them at all and always up to some mischief, one of the primary reason behind this is they never focus on their kids sleep schedule. They allow their kids to sleep till evening 5 or 6 pm and then they complain my kid is always awake till 11 or 12 pm. Well you believe it or not if you think you are facing troubles to handle your kid then focus on his/her sleep schedule first because the truth is if your kids are unable to get 10-12 hrs night sleep continuously, they will be cranky whole day.
Try to set your kids’ sleeping routine for couple of weeks and see the difference in your kids’ mood. Good sleeping habit not only helps in health issues but also increase your kids’ memory power. Your kid will be fresh so s/he can focus more; s/he can listen more; s/he can learn more. So basically providing proper sleep at sleeping time is as much important as serving nutritious food.
Here I am providing you the necessary sleeping need of your kids to regain their energy.
Age group | Nap time (less than 2 hrs) | Continuous sleep time |
1 to 2 years | 2 nap in a day | 12 to 13 hrs night sleep |
2 to 3 years | 1 nap in a day in early afternoon | 12 hrs night sleep |
3 to 5 years | Mostly won’t take nap | 11 to 12 hrs night sleep |
5 to 7 years | Won’t take nap | 10 to 11 hrs night sleep |
7 to 12 years | Won’t take nap | 10 hrs night sleep |
12 plus | Won’t take nap | At least 8 to 9 hrs night sleep |
So what do you think? Am I suggesting you to force your kids to sleep at 8? Well yes and no both. As I am telling you to put your kids on bed before 8 for sure but of course not by forcing them. After all who likes bedtime battles every day?
There are ways to put your kids on bed without battles and for that wait for my next article on 3S to stop bedtime battles.
Realize that extra stresses may heighten normal daily stresses. Your children might normally be able to handle a failed test or teasing, but be understanding that they may respond with anger or bad behavior to stress that normally wouldn’t rattle them. Reassure them that you just expect them to do their best.
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