Make sleep a priority
Placing sleep on the list of priorities and making it a family habit and rule, even during holidays, helps children commit to it. They must be careful to commit to sleeping within 15-30 minutes of entering bed, and not to take a nap during the day. Children who get a good night's sleep wake up early in the morning.
Create suitable conditions for sleep
When trying to create a system to force children to sleep, this requires creating appropriate conditions for it, and this begins two hours before bedtime, as experts advise. These measures include ensuring that the use of any mobile phones or any tablets is prohibited, and a commitment to preventing any light emanating from them while in bed; As it has a negative effect, you must watch television in a limited manner, use thick curtains to make the room dark and give a signal to the body that it is time to sleep, and allow sunlight to enter at the specified time for getting up, in addition to not exercising, and not consuming caffeine.
Set the temperature
Just as the child's sleeping pattern is affected by the presence or absence of light, it is also affected by the ambient temperature. The hormone melatonin present in the body works to regulate the decrease in the internal body temperature when sleeping, which requires working to provide an environment with an appropriate temperature to regulate the external body temperature so that the child is not too warm or the room temperature is too high, but rather ensuring that it is A room temperature slightly cooler than body temperature is better for promoting deep sleep.
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When children have sleep fears, it is good to help them overcome them by reassuring them, but if the matter does not work with mere reassurance, then it is necessary to try helping them get a guardian doll for them, or providing a spray of some kind to convince them that it keeps the monster away from them.
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