The kid, of course, nothing has to nobody. It will be more correct to ask how many the child can sleep. And so, a dream - natural process. And the kid can sleep so much how many it is necessary for him. If was tired - will sleep if does not sleep - the organism got tired not enough to pass into ""sleep mode"". Unfortunately, so happens not always.
So happens if your child has an ""appeasable"" type of temperament. The kid without effort passes from a condition of a dream into a condition of wakefulness and back. No help at the same time is required to it. Such children well fall asleep, sleep tight and long. To sozhalenyu, such children seldom meet.
It is desirable for those mothers who were not so lucky to know approximate criteria of time of a dream and wakefulness of the child in certain age. Except healthy curiosity for this purpose there are several reasons:
1. To help the kid to avoid overfatigue,
2. Not to allow hyper fatigue and accumulation of fatigue (these are different concepts)
3. To give to the child the chance ""to vyspat"" the necessary time for rest of all systems of an organism and the correct work of a brain.
4. To support good mood at the child
5. Not to expect what cannot be.
Duration of a dream of the child depends on age. Many mothers according to tables monitor changes of weight and growth of the kids, however forget about change of time of a dream. At once we will make a reservation, all these tables are approximate, calculated on the average child. Your task, first of all, to listen to the child, he at you one such. And his good mood, game and informative activity and cheerfulness will be the main indicators of the correct time of a dream.
Indications in the table average, are the low-sleeping, difficult children. Also the dream is influenced by diseases of children, a teething, stages of physical and mental growing, so-called crises and jumps of development.
However, you do not hurry to write down the child in ranks low-sleeping, this rather unusual occurrence. much overexcitation from insufficient quantity of a dream and overfatigue of nervous system meets more often. Answer for yourself questions whether your kid sleeps enough? Wakes up in good mood? Perhaps, there is a sense to stack the child earlier? Yes, exactly earlier, before, when it from overfatigue begins to jump in the evening impetuously with shout on a bed. It means, your child ""peregulyal"" and time of a release it is necessary to postpone at least to an hour, and even one and a half. Perhaps, it is necessary to look after all day mode or to increase time korotkog a daytime sleep.
Be attentive! If 4 - the x-year-old child, for example, goes to bed at 10 in the evening, and in 7 you he is already forced to wake to gather in a garden (and the daytime sleep is absent) – the daily duration of a dream is only 9 hours (instead of put 11 at this age). The child can behave several days and even weeks adequately, but in process of accumulation of fatigue nervous breakdowns, hysterics, whims out of the blue, nervousness, attempts to fall asleep very much early (at 6 in the evening, for example) several times a week can take place. Parents sometimes think "I have just an active child low-sleeping" or "we have an age crisis" etc., without guessing that to the kid the dream suffices just. What should I do? Earlier laying considerably will improve a situation (shift withdrawal time for sleeping 15 minutes of times in three days).
By the way, excessively long dream is also not useful. after it children can wake up sluggish, apathetic. Often long dream is the first sign of the desease.
Norm of a dream - an approximate reference point thanks to which, you will be able to control exhaustion and excitement of your kid. However, your main criterion - the vigorous, happy, positively adjusted child even if you deviate the table for an hour.
Look at the child, be attentive, you watch norm of a dream of your children.
And in conclusion I will tell what at the university of Tel Aviv according to a comprehensive investigation of the nature of a dream, was established ""even one hour of a regular lack of time of a dream threatens efficiency of functioning of a brain of the kid, reduces attentiveness and also leads to fatigue increase early in the evening"". This significant opening has to stimulate parents very much shows consideration for quantity and sleep quality of their children.