However, children also do not sleep? !! Insomnia can occur even in very small children. So why do children at an early age sleep badly?
A familiar picture, when a ten-month-old baby or a two-year-old girl in her crib croaks, only wants to sleep with her parents. Tired of the daily worries of parents, this situation is so tiring that they are "ready" to close the lock or tie the child to the bed. But also it is unreal, because often insomnia of children is accompanied by cries and crying.
Psychologists note that in recent years complaints of parents about insomnia in their small children have sharply increased. Often lament that children at an early age do not sleep well, young parents. The roots of many psychological problems associated with the upbringing of children are in violation of the child's sleep. That's why experts begin a conversation with parents with a discussion of their children's problems with sleep.
First of all, it is worth to clarify with what the child's insomnia is related, which can manifest itself in the complexity of falling asleep or by frequent waking up. Childhood insomnia is both temporary and permanent. In addition to difficulties with falling asleep or a lot of spills, insomnia has other symptoms. For example, fast fatigue, anxiety, nightmares, stress and depression. The cause may also be diseases that parents do not even suspect. The child at night can be disturbed by a pain in ears or a rhinitis. Often, the smallest have restless leg syndrome or apnea. Watching TV, scandal before going to bed or other noises can also put children quickly falling asleep. According to psychologists, in large cities, children at an early age do not sleep well, that is, the urban lifestyle also does not promote a restful sleep.
Frequent insomnia badly affects the daytime activity of the child, and his attentiveness is greatly weakened. It is noted that earlier children did not suffer from insomnia, this ailment has always been considered a problem of adults. Of course, there were children in those days who could not fall asleep. But earlier this difference between insomnia of the elders and younger was very noticeable, but now it has almost worn off. Why does the number of child insomnia grow?
To answer this question, parents need to remember their childhood. What used to be at the disposal of the youngest? A cot and a few toys, and still could be a riding school. Parents and children lived with their grandparents or often stayed with them. Now look around and see what surrounds your baby. The abundance of complex and brightest toys, dozens of books with incomprehensible pictures and a series of constantly changing nannies - it's all around the smallest today. Earlier, children were taken to the circus and puppet theater, and nowadays they watch movies in a three-dimensional image, having put on special glasses. Earlier, children were fed at home with simple and delicious food, and now in all restaurants you can meet highchairs. For one day a modern child receives such a piece of information that even grown-ups can not really digest!
Of course, forty years ago, children's doctors, educators and psychologists advised parents to pay special attention to the intellectual education of the child from the earliest years. However, a child born today can simply "suffocate" under the weight of various information. The child is already almost from the cradle begin to teach foreign languages and arithmetic. In the opinion of many parents, their child has already been obliged from the age of two to be able to read and speak freely in several languages. The "poor" child no longer has a place in his crib because of the abundance of toys and books that should be developed intellectually.
Regardless of whether the mother works or not, the child must go to the kindergarten, and earlier the children grew at home. Today, children are taught to write and read in the kindergarten, and the preschool child goes to school prepared. If this goes on, the primary classes can be disbanded and begin training with special subjects.
It is the method of early education of the youngest that causes a number of psychological disorders, in particular, insomnia in children. If a child does not speak from one-year-old age and does not read from two years old, parents come to the conclusion that their child will grow up a loser in the future. Inadequate behavior of parents starts to irritate the child, and he is nervous from it. Grandiose plans of parents do not fit into the course of the child's natural development. This may be the main reason why children at an early age do not sleep well.
There are other causes of psychological and emotional disorders in children who suffer from insomnia. Modern children often have to participate in the process of divorce their parents. To the great shame of adults, parting is not entirely civilized and human. Adult scandal and even engaged in assault, in such situations the child is lost and does not understand what is happening, he even blames himself. The child might think that if he behaved well, he would obey his father and mother, it would not have happened. Alas, no one is in a hurry to talk with the child and will not convince him.
Not all babies can follow tough rules or experience stressful situations. Any non-standard situations and deviations from the familiar family way of life makes the child's life unstable and restless. If the life of the parents has changed, this does not mean that the life of the child should be different.
There are simple rules that should help to eliminate insomnia in children. For example, limit the time of watching TV, stop artificially stimulating the child's tiny mind, exclude from the nutrition of children new-fangled foods, oversaturated with preservatives and chemical elements. That the kid did not suffer
insomnia, he needs to create a quiet and family mode of the day, suitable for the child's age. The kid should have breakfast, lunch and dinner, rest and walk, engage in modeling and drawing, play in the sandbox, etc. He must deal with natural things for his age.