How To Deal With Child's Nightmares
| Health And Fitness : Top Health Tips Doc says you may be awaken at night by your child screaming. You go to their room, and find them sitting up in bed. They stare a hole right through you, and lie back down and go to sleep. Suddenly it's over as fast as it started. Stay calm it's not a seizure. This is very common between the ages of three and five. Stand by when it occurs, and make sure the child isn't getting hurt. Restrain him if it gets really bad. There is nothing else you can do. Do not mention it to child in the morning either. Do not let siblings talk about it either. If the child that did it, knows about it he can get very upset. Children do not remember night terrors. To break up the sleep cycle and interrupt the pattern of terrors try this. Wake your child up 30 minutes after he goes down. Then let him go back to sleep. Try putting older children to bed earler, that are having them. Young ones go back to afternoon naps. These terrors usually start after the child has given up daily naps. The first time a child stays up for 12 hours or more, there's more pressure on his sleep system, and drives him deeper into to sleep. The more tired a child is, the more difficult it is to switch form deep sleep to light sleep.
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