The correct day regimen is necessary for the child for physical and intellectual development. Therefore it is important to begin to accustom the kid to a daily routine at the age of 3-4 months when habits of the child and his natural schedule of a dream are formed.
Instruction
1. Before beginning to form the correct day regimen of the child, it is necessary to understand what number of times the kid has to sleep in the afternoon. Newborns sleep both in the afternoon, and at night each three hours. At achievement of 3 months the kid begins to sleep more rare, but his dream becomes deeper and regular. In 6 months to the child three times a day, and from 11 months – only two times are enough to sleep.
2. There are also rare exceptions when the child sleeps in the afternoon only one hour. It will be norm provided that the child feels well: eats enough, plays, smiles. Such children are capable to restore forces for a short period. In such non-standard case you should not try to put the child to bed according to general norms as the kid all the same will not fall asleep but only he raskapriznichatsya.
3. Accustoming the child to the correct day regimen, it is important to adhere to the sequence. It is necessary to try to feed, bathe, walk and stack the kid at the same time every day. Otherwise it will be heavy to child to develop the day mode. At the same time, when the child will start going to kindergarten, on the weekend it will be necessary to adhere to the day mode which is observed in kindergarten.
4. Each child has the individual habits. Making a daily routine, it is extremely important to consider them. So, some children after bathing like to have a sleep, and others prefer to play.
5. It is worth paying attention and to signs which are given by the kid. For example, if the child begins to be capricious and rub eyes, then it designates that he got tired and wanted to sleep. And if the child began to suck actively a pacifier, then feeding time possibly came. Having found out all signs given by the child it is possible to develop the day regimen which is most suitable the kid.
6. There can sometimes come time for a dream corresponding to a daily routine, but the child unexpectedly will not want to fall asleep. In that case the kid needs to be helped not to lose a habitual rhythm. On this case it is necessary to create the certain ritual which is carried out before going to bed which will help to calm quickly the child and to ship it in a dream. Bathing, feeding, singing of a lullaby, in a word everything that affects the child soothingly can be such ritual.
7. To understand whether the day regimen is correctly made, it is possible on behavior of the kid. If during the whole day he is active, balanced, cheerful, eats well, quickly falls asleep and wakes up vigorous, then it is not required to make corrections to a daily routine.