It was past 9 pm but the little one still can not sleep with? Child development experts have identified the six mistakes when trying to lull the baby. But there is also good news that those mistakes can be quickly rectified without culminate with the problem.

Experts sleep problems of children and parents who have experienced a slight agree that any change in routine (schedule) sleep, can bring great difficulties in preventing and repairing problems in terms of sleep.

The method to lull a baby sucess (make your child to bed on time and slept soundly all night), you are not just going to have a child who is happier with adequate rest, but a happier family with adequate rest as well.

Mistake # 1: Bringing Children to Place Her sleep Too Late.

Children today are now shorter sleep time than their parents who have grown up. ”The children now, during the period of growth and puberty to sleep in a shorter time than children their age in the 70′s and 80′s,” says Marc Weissbluth (pediatrician and author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child). A study found that children aged 2 years now sleep 40 minutes less than children aged 2 years in one or two generations ago. The problem is due to sleep late at night, Weissbluth says, and also now more fights during sleep, restless sleep and frequent waking during the night.

Maybe you do not get your baby or toddler to sleep on a schedule (hours) determined exclusively, or you do not spend that much for him after work, and continue to let him play, “Letting the kids (such as infants and toddlers) go to bed too late will result in excessive fatigue in children, “said a social worker Jill Spivack, co-author of The Sleepeasy Solution: The exhausted Parent’s Guide To Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5. ”When our children become too tired, they will take longer to fall asleep and staying asleep without waking up, and they wake up earlier than usual, if you bring him to bed a bit late”

By the time he started school in kindergarten and elementary school, a conflicting schedule of activities between the various sports and activities after school hours will shorten their naps. ”Most kids have too much activity,” says Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at one of the children’s hospital in Philadelphia and co-author Judith Owens of Take Charge of Your Child’s Sleep.

Think: When finished dinner and do homework, bedtime your child may not notice. Or you may not quickly send children to sleep to prevent the occurrence of an argument (for fear they will reject and bersiteru), and to let them sleep without a fight, eventually you just tell them to sleep a bit tonight, and let them play or watch tv first. But this is wrong, says Mindell, because if the children become exhausted, they will be tough to sleep.

Appropriate measures are: Arrange a definite bedtime (and nap if you can clock as well) and apply the schedule continues. Do not you see he has been brushing, rubbing eyes, yawning, fussing and whining you just take him to bed (because this may signal the already over-night). Bring them to bed early. Even 15 to 20 minutes more sleep alone can bring change.

Because each child is different, Spivack said that during the night, toddlers generally require 11-12 hours for sleep, the child greater need 10-11 hours. Children who already attend school should get up early, so prepare a schedule of when they should wake up, and count how many hours they must sleep.

Mistake No. 2: Dependence with Movement Activities

Which parent is never a deep breath and when they saw the child fall asleep while in the baby swing / stroller is shaken or behind a car that runs?

But some parents are accustomed to a way of stimulating activities using movement to make their children fall asleep either nap or sleep at night. ”If children are often only able to sleep in a movement activity, he may not get the deep sleep phase” says Weissbluth, He is like being in a state “doze”, like sleeping with an adult in the course of an airplane. ”

“Appropriate action is, use movement activities just to appease him – not to make him drowsy and fell asleep. If the child is cranky or fussy, we can still give an activity of movement in order to calm her down, but when he fell asleep, stop swaying swing or stroller , take him to his bed, your child will sleep soundly, “says Weissbluth.

Mistake No. 3: Toys Around Kids Beds

A new toy phone in the bed of the baby make it soon will learn that a toy phone and the other toys (have too many toys for the little guy). ”He will not fall asleep because of his toys” a lot of the lights of these toys will make him unable to sleep, said Kelly ingevaldson, a mother from Atlanta, recounts.

Not only infants who gaze distracted by the toys, if the older children also have many toys or tools that can attract attention in the bed, they will not close their eyes.

Appropriate action is, let her bedroom in the dark, stop the activity at the moment will nap or sleep at night.

To maximize his sleep, bet your baby and toddler to sleep in a darkened room (because he could not feel the fear of darkness). For babies who sleep with a deep, light — the index information from 1 to 10 – 10 is the darkest, set the lighting to the index of 8 or 9, said Spivack, use a fan to muffle the sound from a variety of off-street or from the next room.

Older children can be given a little more bright lights so as not to feel afraid, but there was no entertainment during sleep, think long before deciding to put a TV or computer in his room, which makes getting to sleep late at night, lack of sleep that will impact on mood and behavior in the morning (after all so you can not monitor what websites your child is opened). Therefore should not put electronics in their bedroom than there will be a problem every night, put it in the family room or study room together.

Mistake No. 4: Passing Hour Sleep Routines

With a baby or toddler, we may feel routines such as reading a picture story, and singing the night has not been necessary, but with his constant companion before bed is important, says Judith Owens, director ofthe sleep disorders clinic at p ediatric children’s hospital in Providence Hasbro , Rhode Island. Loving routine will help your baby / your child to sleep, he explained.

Parents with children who started school – which originally had a routine bedtime routines — usually will leave it because they feel their child is too big, or because they are too tired to do it, but there are also benefits for the parents to keep running this routine.

“We can not expect our children to sleep alone before the age sufficient to be independent, says Mindell.Research has found that children in the school age who do not have a routine, it will not fit the time needed sleep.

Appropriate action is: should have a regular bedtime ritual.

The main key is to consider the steps that can be understood by him, called Spivack as “sleep cues” to help tell our children that it was time to sleep, for the baby, maybe it would be like changing bedclothes and giving hugs, for older children may be such as reading stories, singing songs to sleep, drink milk, brush teeth or pray.

You can sort of ritual is most suitable for you and your child, but should continue to consistently perform these routines in the same place, same way, and the same time every night, “said Spivack.

Mistake # 5: Not Consistent

2 times a week, when he’s really spoiled, you sleep with the child until he fell asleep, or maybe send her sister slept in her room or even allow him to enter into the room parents and sleep with you at midnight.This shows that you are not consistent.

Children sleeping with parents

Many parents are concerned about their child sleep with them in bed, but when the incident happened too often end up “family bed” (where the father and mother with her child sleeping in one bed) that they never planned.

Toddlers is not recommended to sleep with their mothers in father’s parents bed, “said Owens. If forced to, do not forget to move it to her own bed, because it will make her sleep longer and will get used to sleeping in her own bed.

Proper action is to: determine the limit where the beds each.

Never too late to change a bad habit. Karen Tinsley, from Florida (USA) has a 3-year child who always woke up at midnight and went to bed the old man, and slept with her parents. After 2 months so continue, Karen began to take action, do not allow her son always slept in her parents’ bedroom. I told him gently and firmly as possible that it’s time to sleep in her bed “said Tinsley. Finally, he stays in his own room and slept until morning.

There are exceptions of course, if a child is sick or scared during a thunderstorm, you should come with a calm but with her in her bed and sleep on the mattress in his room, but after his illness was cured or a storm has passed, return to your routine (sleeping on their own ).

A child who has been accustomed to feel comfortable sleeping in bed with her parents will surely protest.In this case Mindell recommend taking a few days to slowly get used to him, perhaps by standing at the door until your child to sleep for 2 nights, before leaving him alone.

Mistakes to-6: Changing Beds Beds Baby to Big Too Fast

When your child is 2 years old, you may want to celebrate its anniversary by buying a bed of children being sold in shopping malls or other places. But after you change the bed, so he had difficulty sleeping.

Why? Before the age of 3 years, many children are not ready to leave the crib. They do not have the ability to keep yourself to sleep on the bed the kids who do not have a border around all four sides, feeling insecure and are afraid of falling.

Appropriate action is: wait for your child until he is ready on the big bed.

When a child is 3 years old, it’s probably time you move him into a bigger bed. The word “may” means an option, if the child’s age playgroup have difficulty sleeping on the bed the kids at that time, we can give him more time to adjust to move from crib to bed the children (between ages 3-4 years).