The measured rhythm of life is simply necessary for children for good health, health and the correct development. It concerns as kids, and those who are more senior.
The first year of life
From the first days for the kid the period when important skills are put begins. Was considered earlier that feeding of the child has to be made on hours. Now pediatricians support a free diet. As well as change of a dream and wakefulness. However the number of feedings and volume of the milk received within a day has to meet age standard.
Up to three months of the healthy child usually feed 6 times a day every 3 hour, and it is desirable to take a six-hour break at night. If the kid for the present does not maintain so long, apply the baby to a breast a bit earlier. After four months - 5 times every 4 hour with a night break for 8 hours. Be not upset if the kid switches over to the new mode not at once. Patience, and everything will turn out.
As for a dream, until the end of the ninth month the kids sleep in the afternoon three times, and already on the tenth pass to a two times dream. It is not necessary to go specially for walk if kid drives for sleeping, and you should not rock to sleep him when it is active. Be guided by the child: his behavior will prompt to you what dream to cancel. Only you remember that it has to be in the first, but not in the second half of day, otherwise the kid will badly sleep in the evening.
Of a year to school
On the second year of life establish five times food for the child. It means a breakfast, the second breakfast, a lunch, an afternoon snack and a dinner. Ideally all meals have to occur in the fixed time. Such food is prevention of diseases of digestive tract.
To the baby it is longer not necessary to allow one-and-a-half-year-old to sleep in the afternoon, than on an hour and a half 2 once a day (the daytime sleep means). Otherwise the child can become sluggish and whining.
Since two years safely you transfer the child to a dream once a day.
Age up to three years - very important stage in life of the kid when his biological rhythms are formed. Biorhythms, in fact, programs of activity and development of bodies, systems and organism in general. It is important to observe balance not to bring down biological clock. On the one hand, the child cannot impose the life mode unusual for it. Chaos is also inadmissible when the child eats, fills up and wakes up always at different times or in general manages to mix day with a night as it happens at free feeding.
Approximately by five years there can be problems with a daytime sleep, the kid wants to be ""as the adult"" and does not wish to sleep in the afternoon. It is simpler to cope with it if the child goes to kindergarten. And here your own example will help to cope with a problem at home. Otherwise, having lost a daytime sleep, the kid will be quickly tired. Besides, delays of mental and physical development are not excluded. In a word, violation of a daytime sleep at this age - a direct way to violation of biorhythms of the child.
School days
Now the daily routine will depend directly on the lesson schedule. Most likely, the child will want to sleep for the first year after lessons at school in the afternoon. Do not interfere with this desire.
The basic rule - the school student should not spend the whole day behind textbooks. Pay attention that in a daily routine there was time for walks, games and hobbies of the child. Rest after lessons allows an organism to remove stress connected with hard mental work.
It is necessary to pay attention to duration of night sleep of the child school student. The sleep debt negatively affects nervous system and leads to decrease in working capacity. Pediatricians recommend to children of eight-nine years to sleep 11 hours, ten-eleven years - 10 hours, twelve-fifteen years - 9 hours, the pupil of advanced age - 8.5-9.
The special attention is required also by the pupil's food. The number of meals has to be 5-6 times. The interval between food, according to physiologists, should not exceed 4-4.5 hours. Certainly, the diet has to be balanced.
That the school student grew healthy, active, easily acquired knowledge, follow rules.
- You do not awake him before an exit in school at the last minute.
- Do not give dry food, sandwiches for breakfast.
- Right after school do not demand from it doing homework.
- Do not deprive of the child of games in the fresh air, visits of circles and sections only because he badly studies.