9/29/2008

Children who were sleeping in class...

In adapting to school, young children may have trouble sleeping, as well as presenting a completely irregular sleep with nightmares included.

Teachers can check determined drowsiness and lack of focus on children, which often leads to contact their parents to detail the situation, and indicating the low academic performance of their children.

This situation, which can generate suspicion of being compared to the presence of any illness or learning disorder, often is simply the result of an alteration of sleep at night, which will disappear after a period of adjustment that takes a few weeks.

However, if these symptoms persist, it is very convenient to carry out a consultation with the pediatrician's small.

What to do when this happens?

It is normal that during holidays the hours are spoiled because everyone in the family would like to take more hours of sleep, or rather, to enjoy more hours of the day or night. No matter what the reason, only the fact of altering the timing, harms the body of children, besides creating these disorders at the time of returning to school. Should not try to shift too much of the time that it is routine in times of classes.

A couple of weeks before the start of classes, it is recommended that children begin to dinner early and with lighter foods. Furthermore, those activities undertaken after dinner, they should be quiet, such as board games. Should be avoided watching television at night, and since Queues tardecita avoid drinks, coffee and chocolate.

Another very important point, are the usual rush of the morning: the children who go to school without breakfast not only pay less but also have an important trend to obesity.

The return to school after a long vacation, for some children is part of a routine to which they are adapted without problem. By contrast, others find it much more difficult. This happens especially in those smaller, stimulated by the excitement of the reunion with his friends, as well as by the fear of separation from their parents.

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