How much sleep does my child? | Premature Child Care

A child of primary school age need about ten to twelve hours of sleep experts advise. If your child so you have to wake at half past six clock to make it on time, including a leisurely breakfast is at eight clocks in the school, it should not first on the evening later in after 19:00 clock go to bed. It appears too many parents very early, but is important so that your child finds a good night's sleep and its reserves - can boost physical and mental - again. In many families the bedtime ritual is always cause for disputes.

Previously, it was simply: "Light!"If it was not read under the covers an exciting chapter to the end, which was not really a problem because it was time to predict. Today, however, is often the Game Boy on the bedside table - and who once begins to come to an end so quickly. Also the higher proportion of working mothers means that even small children sleep less and less. For who his child after the morning breakfast until late afternoon or early evening looks like, do not start immediately with the ex- into -bed- bickering logically.

Stuffed with toys and children's always new distractions also cause chronic stress, or at least the nagging feeling that you can miss something that makes slow but sure restless. British researchers have found that children today sleep up to five hours less than their parents in the corresponding age. The consequences are impaired growth and duration of exposure to the immune system. These are often emotional imbalance, a significantly higher risk of hyperactivity and poor concentration. Tired children are more vulnerable to all sorts of illnesses - whether physical or psychological - and simply "bad on it ".

• Provides for falling asleep or staying asleep first for ideal conditions: Let's continue to burn a night light, the door (at least one gap) and flipped open the window if possible. The room temperature should not be too high. Around 16 degrees are ideal.
• Make sure that no electrical current is deposited in the nursery. Computers, mobile phones, television and radio alarm clock in the nursery because of electromagnetic emissions rob your child to rest. Case studies arising in this context alarming numbers.
• Keep your child at a fixed bedtime ritual one. Dinner, brushing teeth and washing, a bedtime story and perhaps a little entertainment before the main events of the day. Such or similar process allows the child to calm down and signaled the end of a reliability so exciting day.
• In the summer of sleeping children one worse. It is simply too long in the evening light and it is too warm, as that could develop a sense of cozy bed heavy transport. Changes in summer are perhaps the bright, patterned curtains in the nursery so against darker, solid-colored curtains, or install an additional blind. So you lock out the light and the circadian clock of your child is not provided by their own perception constantly in question.
• If you have every night with your child stressed still, it's probably because your looks discussion ready. In this case, you have two options. Either you are always on the same bedtime ritual and can under no circumstances change that. Sun your child learns later than two weeks after that it makes no sense to haggle. Or, check out once a week all the good intentions on board. Then your child can stay up late Saturday night, for example, as long as it wants. Mostly, swings the balance between sleep need and sleep willingness around the age of eight.
• "Go right now XY, otherwise you walk on the spot to bed ... "is a phrase much heard before in German children's rooms. It signals, clearly the wrong one. Does the time of going to bed never pressure. Otherwise your child sleep associated with punishment.

Sleep disorders

Across all age groups suffer every tenth German is now permanently on sleep disorders. A distinction between asleep and staying asleep. In primary school age are both forms of widespread and completely normal, either because an exciting back - lying or days ahead of the obstructed sleep or come in the middle of the night, the "Monster ". Only when your child at least once for a week and a half years in a permanent and staying asleep is suffering , which put an end , even with all tips and tricks, you should consult your pediatrician in order to exclude organic causes.