父母在保持孩子良好睡眠习惯中的重要性

每个孩子的性情、生理和睡眠习惯都决定了他们独特的睡眠-觉醒模式，父母都在与他们一起探索。当孩子的睡眠习惯不符合家庭时间表时，这是令人沮丧的。帮助孩子在童年时期养成良好的睡眠习惯需要时间和父母的关注，但它将在一生中产生有益的结果。对不断变化的模式的理解儿童典型的睡眠-觉醒周期将有助于减轻任何毫无根据的担忧。为每个孩子保持睡眠日记将为父母提供基线信息，以评估儿童睡眠问题的性质和严重程度，这些问题持续存在或加剧。

整个童年时期的发育变化带来了睡眠-觉醒周期和大脑活动的差异可能干扰睡眠的异睡眠的类型和频率。如果孩子的睡眠问题妨碍了充足的睡眠并导致持续的睡眠不足，应谨慎地进行医疗咨询，以排除疾病、感染或受伤的可能性。据《儿童健康新闻》的新闻医学报道，儿童的睡眠问题应该引起重视。

因为它们可能是预测青少年早期药物使用风险的“标记”。在同一篇文章中。密歇根大学精神病学教授柯克·布罗尔研究了“成年人酒精与睡眠的相互作用”，他强调说:“这一发现并不意味着存在因果关系。

如果可怕的梦加剧并变得更频繁，咨询儿童心理学家可能会有所帮助，因为这可能表明需要改变的特定问题或生活环境，或者孩子可能需要额外的帮助来解决。

大多数儿童睡眠障碍会随着大脑的成熟和有规律的睡眠-觉醒周期的建立而减少。父母的指导对儿童健康睡眠习惯的养成至关重要。

原文

Parents are on a journey of discovery with each child whose temperament, biology, and sleep habits result in a unique sleep-wake pattern. It can be frustrating when children's sleep habits do not conform to the household schedule. Helping the child develop good sleep habits in childhood takes time and parental attention, but it will have beneficial results throughout life. An understanding of the changing patterns of the

typical sleep-wake cycle in children will help alleviate any unfounded concerns. Maintaining a sleep diary for each child will provide the parents with baseline information in assessing the nature and severity of childhood sleep problems that persist or intensify.

Developmental changes throughout childhood bring differences in the sleep-wake cycle and in the type and frequency of parasomnias that may interrupt sleep. Medical consultation to rule out illness, infection of injury is prudent if the child's sleep problems prevent adequate sleep and result in an ongoing sleep deficit. As reported by News-Medical in Child Health News, children's sleep problems should be taken

seriously as they may be a "marker" for predicting later risk of early adolescent substance use. In the same article. University of Michigan psychiatry professor Kirk Brower, who has studied "the interplay of alcohol and sleep in adults" stressed that "The finding does not mean there's a cause-and-effect relationship."

Consultation with a child psychologist may be helpful if frightening dreams intensify and become more frequent as this may indicate a particular problem or life circumstance that needs to be changed or one that the child may need extra help working through.

Most childhood sleep disturbance will diminish over time as the brain matures and a regular sleep-wake cycle is established. Parental guidance is crucial to development of healthy sleep habits in children.