There are 'taboos' in taking naps in summer
At the age of 1, the daily sleep time is reduced to about 12 hours, and at the age of 3, it is reduced to about 10 hours.
In the hot summer, after lunch, there are always bursts of sleepiness. At this time, many people choose to take a nap for a while to restore their energy. The same is true for children. Some parents even deliberately cultivate the habit of taking naps in their children. But habits are good, and some details are often counterproductive.
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Under normal circumstances, during the period after the birth of a child, the sleep time is very long every day, which can reach about 20 hours. During this period, the brain is mainly developed.
As he grows, his sleep time will gradually decrease. The daily sleep time of about 1 year old is reduced to about 12 hours, and the sleep time of 3 years old is reduced to about 10 hours. However, each child's personality difference affects their daily sleep time. Therefore, parents often let their children develop the habit of taking naps.
If the child has already gone to school, there is no need to worry too much. The school will have a set lunch break every day. As long as the child follows the discipline during this time, there will be no problem.
When children take a lunch break at home, parents should pay attention to properly controlling their children's lunch break time: generally 20 minutes to an hour is a more scientific choice.
The purpose of a nap is to let the brain rest for a while, but it is not completely relaxed. Appropriate tension will help you get up to work quickly after waking up, so it is best to have a light sleep during this time.
If you sleep for more than an hour, the brain is likely to fall into deep sleep, but it is often awakened just after entering deep sleep. At this time, the brain will naturally resist this behavior, and people often become irritable and upset.
Although the sleep time has become longer on the whole, it has not reached enough deep insomnia time, so the human body not only does not feel relaxed, but also becomes more tired.
Especially for children, if there is too much sleep time at noon, it is easy to fall asleep at night because they are not sleepy, so the child's nap time should be strictly controlled.
Sleeping on your stomach is an unhealthy posture. It is generally recommended to sleep on your desk when you cannot go home in the middle of school, and try not to sleep like this during the rest of the time.
Sleeping like this often brings many harms:
- Brain hypoxia
In the process of sleeping on the stomach, because of the posture, the blood supply to the brain is insufficient, and oxygen is mainly transmitted by blood flow, so the human body will have a series of uncomfortable reactions such as headache due to the lack of oxygen in the brain.
However, this discomfort will disappear in a while, and parents don't need to worry too much, but children often affect the knowledge absorption of the first class in the afternoon because of the slow response of the brain.
- Injury to the cervical spine
When the child sleeps on his stomach, the cervical spine is always bent. Although the brain may be relaxed because of sleep, the cervical spine is easy to be hard when this movement is maintained, and it will feel sore and shoulder pain after a long time.
- Eyeball is oppressed
When sleeping on the stomach, the face is facing down, and the eyeballs are easily squeezed. Although we feel that it has no effect, do we often experience dry eyes and blurred vision by tears after sleeping? This is the problem of eye adjustment discomfort. Therefore, parents should pay attention not to let the child sleep on his stomach too much, otherwise the child is likely to suffer from glaucoma, or a more serious situation.
- Go to bed immediately after eating
After the human body has eaten, a large amount of blood will be concentrated in the stomach to help the stomach to digest. At this time, the head and brain will be deprived of oxygen. The human body feels sleepy and wants to rest. a certain interval.
Otherwise, going to bed immediately is not conducive to the digestion of food, it is easy to gain weight, and it is not conducive to the quality of sleep. At this time, the blood is mainly concentrated in the stomach area, and there is no time to take care of the brain. The brain wakes up easily during sleep, and often feels headache and discomfort after waking up.
Therefore, experts suggest that it is a better choice to go to bed after an interval of 15 to 20 minutes after eating.
A study by the American Institute of Child Health found that there was no significant difference in physical development, intellectual development and health between children with and without lunch breaks.
Not all children need a nap, which is related to everyone's physique. When children are unwilling to take a nap, parents' strong persecution often makes them irritable and anxious, which has a negative impact on the child's mental health.
Therefore, it is necessary to judge whether the child needs a nap or not according to the state of the child. If the child is active in the morning and in good spirits at noon, then there is no need to let them take a lunch break. Generally, the afternoon break is between 12:00 noon and 3:00 pm.
It is normal for a child to take an occasional lunch break or not. It depends on how much he exercised that day. When the child is sleepy, he will naturally ask to sleep. As long as he has this habit, then as he grows older, the biological clock will change. It will gradually develop, and will naturally take regular lunch breaks in the future.