Good sleep is very important for children’s growth, sleep can eliminate fatigue, restore physical strength and promote growth and development; good sleep can enhance immunity and rehabilitate the organism; good sleep delays aging, protects one’s mental health and promotes longevity. Modern fast-paced life makes parents come home late, sleep late, unknowingly also disrupt the normal sleep of children, affecting their future. Dear parents, are you aware of this?
1, lack of sleep makes people dull and forgetful
Sleep plays a decisive role in a person’s thinking and learning ability, and lack of sleep affects the cognitive process in many ways. First, lack of sleep can impair a person’s attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning ability and problem-solving skills, which can lead to a child’s learning efficiency becoming low. Second, at night, each sleep cycle plays a role in “consolidating” memories in the brain. If a child does not get enough sleep, he or she may not remember what he or she has learned or experienced during the day.
Want your child to have a clearer memory? This will need to get enough sleep every day to do so. American scientists have determined that a region of the brain known as the “spike ripple” is specifically responsible for consolidating memories. These brain waves are also responsible for transmitting learned information from the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex. Most of the “spike ripples” occur when people are in deep sleep.
2, lack of sleep can lead to mental ill health
Long-term sleep problems can bring some psychological problems, lack of sleep easily make children excited, irritable, especially in adolescence easily caused by disobedience and emotional conflict, which also affects interpersonal harmony. Long-term sleep deprivation causes chronic moodiness, emotional instability and impulsiveness, especially in young people, and is very harmful in the personality formation stage. If a generation grows up in a sleep-deprived state, the negative impact on society is imaginable. Over time, sleep deprivation and sleep disorders can lead to the generation of depression. Insomnia and depression are inextricably linked. According to a survey of 10,000 people in 2007, those who suffered from insomnia were up to five times more likely to develop depression than those who did not have insomnia. In fact, insomnia is often one of the precursors to depression. Insomnia and depression go hand in hand; lack of sleep can exacerbate depression, which in turn can make it more difficult to sleep. On a positive note, treating sleep problems can help with depression and vice versa.
Therefore, it is important to increase awareness of the dangers caused by sleep deprivation, and health education in this area should be an important part of adolescent education. Experts point out that cognitive education is very important. For example, students in junior and senior high school now know that it’s not good to sleep less, but it’s hard for them to adjust, they say I have no way to adjust, I’m under a lot of pressure to study and my homework doesn’t allow me to sleep more. However, if you let him know how harmful the lack of sleep is and how deep the impact is, he will still find a way to make time for more sleep after fully understanding. In other words, the depth of health education determines his awareness of the problem and his action, and if he does not know enough, he may not act. Experts in the process of clinical counseling have a profound experience, that is, the better the publicity, the deeper his understanding, the more he can see his action. Therefore, the depth of health education is very necessary and important for the individual.
3.Sleep deprivation affects social adaptability
The ability to adapt to the social environment includes learning, dealing with problems in learning at their age, interpersonal interaction, and the ability to adapt to the surrounding social environment. Many children have learning difficulties or social adaptation problems, and lack of sleep has a lot to do with it. A healthy sleep is the only way to ensure a healthy awakening. In fact, a good state of wakefulness can determine the state of human behavior, and a good state of wakefulness is the only way to maximize one’s talent and unlock one’s potential. What is the state of wakefulness guaranteed by? It is guaranteed by sleep. Without a good sleep, it is impossible to have a good awakening. Now a good sleep includes ensuring the sleep time and sleep quality. Every age group must keep his sleep time, elementary school students need 10 hours, secondary school students need at least 8 hours, and now it is not done. This is sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is very common nowadays. There is a saying among urban white-collar workers that they seek to sleep until they wake up naturally. This is a luxury pursuit for them, which also reflects the seriousness of sleep deprivation in society. This long-term sleep deprivation is bound to affect a person’s lifestyle and behavior. For example, the night life in the city may be from passive to active sleep deprivation, and people are used to it. When you get sleepy during the day, you don’t sleep but drink coffee. Habit becomes natural, and sleep deprivation is accepted in some groups. When the sleep deprived people themselves do not feel that this is a problem, it is actually a very serious social problem.
4, lack of sleep affects the growth of children
As the saying goes: “People grow in sleep” is justified. On the one hand, sleep can make the brain nerves, muscles and other relaxation, to relieve muscle fatigue; on the other hand, after the child deep sleep, the body growth hormone secretion, sufficient sleep is conducive to the child’s growth. Now many people’s work and rest time as a whole pushed back, do not know that bad sleep habits not only affect themselves, but also affect the next generation of growth.
5, chronic sleep deprivation hurts learning ability
In the Chinese Sleep Research Association sponsored by the “healthy psychology. Good Sleep” sleep day theme activities, “we now overall sleep time than 100 years reduced. From 1900 to the present, the length of our sleep has decreased at a rate of 0.71 minutes per year, which means that the current sleep duration has decreased by 1.5 hours. It used to be 8.5-9 hours, but now it is about 7.5 hours.”
China’s Ten-Year Study on the Development of Children and Adolescents 1999-2010 shows that the sleep time of primary and secondary school students in China has continued to decrease during the decade, with nearly 80% of primary and secondary school students missing sleep. A survey by the National Sleep Foundation also showed that 45 percent of school youths sleep less than nine hours, and 25 percent of children happen to sleep in class once a week.
Chronic sleep deprivation has insidious and irreversible damage to children’s learning memory functions and is associated with childhood obesity. “Sleep has an impact on a child’s physical, intellectual and brain development, and parents should take responsibility for not sleeping when their children should, and should help their children follow their innate biological routines.”
Some schools in the United States delay early morning school hours to ensure that youngsters have adequate sleep. Currently, Shanghai has started to implement this policy of delaying primary and secondary schools to improve the “quality” and “quantity” of sleep for primary and secondary school students, with remarkable results.
6.Parents need to change their habits
In addition, in order for children to develop good sleep habits, parents must first change their own habits. Some parents like to come home at eight or nine o’clock and tease their children to play, which breaks the normal sleep routine of children. It is recommended that two hours before the child goes to sleep, there should be no stimulating sports and games, a bath, and a peaceful bedtime story. And after 6 months, it is best to keep the child’s bedroom separate from the parents.
Daytime snoozing is also an effective supplement to sleep deprivation. If you are sleep deprived, you can take a nap at noon, but about 30 minutes is enough, more than 40 minutes will bring sleep inertia and affect wakefulness and stress response. And too much snooze time during the day will also affect the ability to fall asleep at night, as shown by the delay in falling asleep, affecting the quality of sleep.
While extended weekend sleep is not ideal, it does help with weekday sleep deprivation. Studies have shown that this can lead to an improvement in insulin’s ability to control blood sugar and also reduce the risk of obesity to some extent. However this is a method of last resort.