The 3-year-old grandson didn't wake up after taking a nap, the doctor's words broke the grandma's heart, and many parents are still making mistakes

Chinese people attach great importance to taking naps and consider it a good habit for physical and mental health. Some parents even think ''children who take a nap are smarter. ''This is not wrong, but many parents overemphasize and exaggerate the role of naps, which is counterproductive.

Huahua's grandmother is like that. In order to keep the three-year-old grandson from starvation and get adequate nutrition. After the grandson had eaten a few biscuits, he forcibly stuffed the child with lunch. After the meal, despite Huahua's resistance, the grandmother reprimanded her and pushed her grandson who was playing with the car into bed, forcing him to take a nap and rest without giving the child any time to breathe.

However, the tragedy just happened. After the three-year-old grandson took a nap and lay down, he never woke up. When the housework was over, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. Grandma found out that her grandson, who usually only took an hour nap, didn't get up yet. After discovering something was wrong, the child was taken to the hospital immediately. Next, the doctor's words broke the grandmother's heart: because the food was too full, the airway was blocked, which caused suffocation.

Taking a nap is one thing that many parents ask their children to do, hoping that their children can get enough sleep to benefit their growth and development. However, everything must pay attention to methods and follow objective laws. Due to lack of knowledge, many parents are still making mistakes when it comes to ''napping''.

So, what should parents pay attention to when it comes to naps?

First, don't eat while playing.

In order to coax their children to eat, many parents often use some games to feed their children. I made the child happy, and maybe I was willing to eat two more bites of rice.

But playing while eating is a bad habit. Generally speaking, after eating, a large amount of blood will flow into the stomach to help gastrointestinal motility, but if eating while playing, the body will shunt part of the blood to other organs, thereby reducing the blood in the stomach and causing indigestion in children.

Immediately fall asleep without digestion, the child's stomach is still small and fragile, with limited capacity, and it is easy for food to flow back, causing suffocation. In the long term, it is easy to cause stomach diseases, and in the short term, it will be difficult to sleep due to stomach bloating and discomfort.

Secondly, you should exercise properly and then take a nap after meals.

When the child has finished eating for 30 minutes, parents can take the child for a walk or play some simple games with the child. Remember not to do strenuous exercise, and do not exercise immediately after eating. Proper exercise is conducive to the digestion of food, and will not cause fat accumulation caused by children lying down after eating, causing obesity and other health problems.

Again, nap time should not be too long.

The purpose of nap is to let the child get enough rest and meet the consumption of the afternoon with a better mental outlook. However, studies have shown that long naps not only fail to restore the spirit, but also make them sleepier and weaker the more they sleep.

It will affect the normal work and rest time at night. Parents should realize that too long naps will affect the normal work and rest time at night. Children who are too excited at night will not sleep through the night. Reversing day and night instead violates the objective law of people's "sunrise and settling, sunset and rest", which is harmful to the development of children.

Children over the age of 3, like adults, need about 30 minutes of sleep. It can not only make the baby more energetic, but also improve the child's brain development.

Finally, create a good sleeping environment for your child.

Most naps are light sleep. In most cases, babies are very sensitive to everything around them. The noisy environment is not conducive to children's sleep and affects the quality of sleep. At the same time, pay attention to the temperature of the sleeping environment. In summer, don't blow fans and empty talk at children, it will make them catch a cold. In winter, don't wrap your child with a quilt that is too thick. The baby's body is very fragile, and a quilt that is too tight will oppress the child's heart and make it difficult to breathe.

Although the benefits of naps are self-evident, not all babies need naps every day. Parents should pay attention to the mental state of their children and do not force their children to take a nap. If the child is not sleepy, forcing him to sleep will only increase their psychological burden, and may even make the child resistant to sleep.

Every child is an individual, not a robot on an assembly line. Therefore, some babies sleep more and some babies sleep less. Don't use a unified ruler to measure your children. Only the healthy growth of your baby is the most important!