Dream – very important component of human life. In a dream the body has a rest, relaxes, stress hormones go down, nervous system calms down. It is necessary to sleep everything, to especially small children. And, day rest is necessary for them.
Why the child needs a daytime sleep? Many parents think if the kid has not a sleep in the afternoon, then, so will quicker fall asleep at night and will more strong have a sleep. But it not so. The child will be overexcited, will begin to be capricious, will more difficultly fall asleep and will badly sleep at night. The quiet time is necessary for the kid.
How many do children sleep?
Often say what grows in a dream of people. There is a truth grain. It is proved by numerous researches that growth hormones are produced, but only at good daily rest. And, the kid is younger, the more he has to sleep.
Newborns will see off in somnolence almost all the time, till 20 o'clock (being only interrupted on feeding). It is considered normal. By a year the kid has to spend not less than 15 hours in a bed. Over time this term is shortened. After a year the child passes to the two times period of a dream: during the lunchtime and at night. The daytime sleep of the child has to proceed till 2.5 o'clock. This mode needs to be kept till the most school time. But some parents follow the tastes the children who after three years refuse to keep within in the afternoon. You should not indulge their whims since requirement at them for day rest did not decrease at all.
Why to sleep in the afternoon?
For all day the organism of the kid receives the sea of information, and nervous system overtires. And to restore it and to have a rest a little, the child has to lie down quietly and have a sleep. The daytime sleep is necessary also not to break biorhythms of a small organism. All know that many opening were made by people in a dream as for comprehension of knowledge time and rest are necessary. The dream is important for those kids whose mothers drive them on the different developing circles, sections. At this time the kid gets a lot of new emotions, impressions which he somehow needs to digest and absorb. For this reason to put the child to bed it is just necessary in the afternoon. The dream helps all information to be acquired much better and more qualitatively.
What to do if the kid does not lay down in the afternoon?
Parents often stack the child violently. But it turns over time into a big problem where parents will surely lose. That day rest took place, there are several councils. Before a lunch it is necessary to walk with the baby. And so that it constantly moved and was tired, it is as much as possible. Carry out all developing exercises till a lunch. Try to finish all games before going to bed (lay a toy in a bed, complete the picture from puzzles). After a meal at once in a bed, do not distract cheerful fairy tales and nursery rhymes (as a last resort to tell the fairy tale by a monotonous boring voice which will cast a dream). Try to keep within at the same time. Using the methods given above you always put the kid to bed in the afternoon. And he will wake up cheerful and well rested.