The problems of sleep in children are very different. Some children fall asleep easily and have a deep sleep. There are some that should never sleep and have a light sleeper, and others who wake up every night and regularly require the presence of a parent to go back to sleep, or occur only occasionally these difficulties.
With children should never sleep in the parents have difficulties in sending them to bed and get them to stay.

Slepping Children

After a day of working parents would sit a little ‘quiet and convince their children to go to bed creates a difficult situation and stressful.
Surely you can not force a child to sleep but you can get me to stay quietly in his bed after a certain time. If the environment is calm the child will fall asleep alone when sleep will come.
Why do some children refuse to go to sleep?
Going to bed means separation from parents, games and television are used to look at it and if you remain alone in the dark for eight to ten hours.
Children to address the separation must have confidence in themselves and in their parents. It ‘necessary to give him some attention and a sign of affection before falling asleep, like the kiss good night, reading a story. But at the same time, parents must show a united front and decided.


Rituals before going to bed are very important so as to set an hour to go to sleep. Useful also to announce that at that particular time, now we will get ready to go to sleep such as “half an hour. Must begin to prepare to go to sleep “and finally” it’s time to go pee, wash your teeth and go to bed. ” The ritual before going to sleep will always be the same that appears to be a reassurance to the child. Each family will choose a ritual is important is that the sequences are observed: they brush their teeth, he pees, he tells a story, you give a kiss goodnight.
Children between three and seven to eight years in general, are some legitimate demands which must accommodate: a small light on, door ajar, to sleep with a stuffed animal, these are small strategies that put in place to acquire more security for to sleep alone.


How to react if the child protests?
0ccorre explain to his son, in a tone of quiet, everyone needs to sleep at night to feel healthy the following day. We should resist the temptation to lie down next to the child until he falls asleep in doing so it deprives itself of an opportunity to become autonomous and could make it increasingly difficult to fall asleep.
Avoid, at all, is to put the baby to sleep in the bed of the parents or let them fall asleep on the sofa in the living room. Just as praise him because he went to bed without fuss: the child must not think they have done something exceptional. Also is of little angry: the more you show calm and determined and faster the child will cease to complain and make continuous requests.
The inability to sleep alone may occur in relation to events or special circumstances (illness, birth of a sibling, separation) and in such cases it is an occasional and temporary regression, but if it persists over time and is present from birth be read as a signal of distress that will have consequences on all household members and you must seek outside help.
In conclusion, parents should have a tender and reassuring attitude during the ritual before going to sleep, but after you must show firmness. Your child should not hear him “master” able to manipulate their parents as they want. The domain that a child has on parents creates in him a certain satisfaction, but in fact makes it very insecure because what a child is really reassuring to know that her parents have control of the situation and know what’s good for him.

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