Perhaps to each child can will dream dreadful dreams after viewing the impressionable scary movie or the fairy tale. Even adults sometimes wake up from awful dreams, even sometimes without thinking of the prime causes of such dream. And unfortunately these reasons do not lie on a surface. If the child has no quiet dream already long period of time, then it is worth thinking over what happens to it and how it is possible to help?
For a quiet dream without terrible images one is necessary to the kid - feeling of love, protection and safety. You should not put him to bed too late or early as it threatens with overexcitation and violation of a natural biorhythm of a dream. Time of falling asleep has to be habitual and convenient first of all for the kid, it is desirable it is the same hour every day. Duration of a dream can change with age.
Tight muscles, change of habitual poses of a dream, full concealment by a blanket, frequent heartbeat and breath, shouts in a dream can demonstrate that the child has a dreadful dream.
How to arrive if the child dreams a bad dream?
- It is not necessary to shame children words at all ""You already big why still you are afraid...?"" It will help nothing but only will aggravate a situation. The kid will be also is ashamed. It is better not to send to sleep violently, to dark rooms without light.
- by itself, it is necessary to exclude viewing scary movies and fairy tales even in the afternoon.
- it is possible to approach the kid at night and to look at his dream, it is good to cover, let he even in a dream will feel care of mom.
- since morning you should not awake sharply with the alarm clock, it is better to approach, pat quietly on the back and to wake silent words. It is impossible to force to break out of bed, awakening is obliged to be quiet.
- day of the child has to pass in total activity, with emotional outdoor games. The more children are tired, the better sleep - this truth is known to all.
Special attention should be paid to often ill children. Probability that the nightmare much more, than at healthy children will dream them. The threat not of a quiet dream completely is removed only with strengthening of immunity of the kid and with increase in its protective reserves.