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Help Your Child Get Enough Sleep

 


 

Help Your Child Get Enough Sleep

 

According to a recent study, 60% of children under 18, complain of feeling tired and 15% of them keep napping in the classroom. Inadequate sleep in children is a serious issue, as it negatively affects their educational and co-curriculum activities. An expert researcher on sleep-related disorders, Carl E. Hunt, from George Washington University School of Medicine, says, “Sweet and enough sleep is as important as a healthy diet for a growing kid.”

But how to persuade children to sleep early and adequately?

Here are few things you can do:

1) Cut coffee at night --- Discourage your child taking cola drinks after taking dinner. Keep an eye on his or her favorite street foods that may contain caffeine.

2) Unplug your child from gadgets --- An hour before sleep time, do not allow your child to play video games or sitting before TV or computer. Rather persuade him towards more soft activities like reading storybooks, painting, listening to music, etc. Even better, sit with him and ask him to narrate all today’s events that happened to him.

3) Make him feel tired --- During post-dinner talks, indirectly realize your child that after a day full of academic and sports activities, he must be feeling fatigued and needs a deep and long sleep. Children usually don’t admit that and want to continue their favorite hobbies, even at the expense of sleep. Here, your soft suggestive tone can do the job.

4) You yourself go to sleep --- Be a role model and go early to your bed. It would help your child to realize that getting sleep is important and likely, he would follow you.

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