Children's sleep - is a topic of concern to all the parents, without exception. Some believe that the child should go to bed when he himself wants it. Many are supporters of the regime - is the basis of the guarantee of health, so you need to go to sleep until 21.00.
But some parents allow their crumbs go to bed later than eleven, not considering it dangerous for its full development. Where it is actually the golden mean and dangerous to fall asleep later for small children?
A full night's sleep is very important for all without exception, and the children - it is a special category for which sleep is not just a physiological necessity, but also an essential aspect of participating in active growth and development of the body, strengthening the immune system and in shaping their psyche and intelligence.
Every year, many parents are increasingly complaining that the kids became more difficult to put to bed, and even a three-year toddler can easily stay awake until midnight. This problem, according to many experts, is the fact that in this age of children are inextricably linked with all sorts of gadgets, so carried away by such tempting and infinite world of entertainment, kid's brain does not file a timely signal that it is time to sleep and its activity can be extended for another several hours.
Based on the results of numerous scientific studies, later falling asleep in childhood entails is irritability, anxiety, difficulty of perception, impaired mental, reduction Immunity.
Among other things, the child's body is growing by leaps and bounds, in the truest sense of the word, and the first years of his life lays the basic foundation of both physical and psychological development. The child is able to absorb the huge flow of information at the speed is not typical of an adult. And it happens all thanks to growth hormone runningaway which begins after 2-3 hours after a child falls asleep.
Peak production of such important hormone for the child's body is midnight. Accordingly, thanks to some simple calculations, it is clear that after falling asleep (after 21.00) leads to the fact that growth hormone is simply not have time to perform all of its functions,
Consequently, it may be observed as a decrease in the activity of the crumbs, and vice versa - hyperactivity fidgets. All this is a consequence of violations of the child's psychological stability. The same scientists have shown that the later falling asleep extremely negative impact on the intellectual development of the child's body, therefore, underachievement child's school - this is not always an indicator of its lazy nature, may affect it in a banal lack of sleep childhood.
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