Before you decide to learn the child to sleep on your own, you need to know that the child is ready for it. In many ways, the readiness for independent population depends on the emotional state of the kid. Calm children easily and quickly pass this process. But hyperactive children may need quite a long time, which can vary from several weeks to several months.
At what age it is desirable to teach the child to sleep alone
It is recommended to learn children to fall asleep on their own from birth or from one and a half months. At the age of one and a half months, children very quickly get used to fall asleep independently and sleep so in the future.
However, parental love and the desire to give additional tenderness before bedtime to his baby can have a bad service. If the kid from an early age fell asleep on his own, but for some reason the parents began to sleep with them or lay down with him, while the child does not fall asleep, then very quickly child will get used to joint population and, most likely, will not fall asleep on its own .
Ways to teach the child to sleep alone
The child should have its quiet secluded place to sleep. It can be a separate room or fenced space in a common room.
Baby must feel safeCreate him a feeling of comfort and calm.
Fantasy children are infinite. And so that the child could fall asleep calmly and not be afraid of monsters under the bed, secure the presence of familiar items in the room. Favorite toy, with whom the child wants to sleep. You can place in a children's night light or aquarium to create a soft muted light, if the child is terribly sleeping in the dark. Suggest to leave the doorway the door of the children's room, so that the baby heard the voices of the parents and calmly flooded.
Provide the baby predictability before bedtime.Ordinary hygienic preparations before bed can act as rites. The child will be calmer to relate to the time of falling asleep if he gets used to take a shower or washed in front of bedtime, brushing his teeth, listen to a fairy tale not in bed. All actions should be calm, so as not to cause the nervous system excitement, so the games are better to postpone the next day.
Many kids may be afraid to fall asleep on their own. Promise that in five or ten minutes they will look into his room. Just do not increase the interval in the hope that the baby fell asleep and does not know about deception. The child at first can wait for your appearance and not sleep. If you comply with the promised interval and look at it in a timely manner, it will calm down and gradually falls.
To take a child to fall asleep independently, it may take time. Do not hurry and do not be discouraged if it does not work immediately. All children get used to differently. Provide a toddler a calm atmosphere. And if you have already begun to teach the baby to sleep on your own, then you need to continue. If you go to bed with him again or read fairy tales in bed to fall asleep, it will only increase the period of addiction.
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