Sleep Quality = Brilliant Brain

Sleep is a basic need of every human being. And a deep sleep is necessary, especially for the little guy. Sleep is not just to relieve fatigue after a day of activities.

However, sleep is one of the factors affecting children's intelligence and quality development of the child.

Because when sleep was the best moment for brain develop optimally. The low quality of sleep will adversely affect brain growth and development of children, especially the ability to think.

For little ones who started entering school age, sleep quality can lead to the slow power of concentration, less alert, sensitive, or careless. Therefore, children who get enough sleep, have language skills, reading and math better in school. they also tend to be more intelligent than children who sleep deprivation / sleep does not irregular.

Sleep Benefits

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (2002), adequate and quality sleep will boost the immune system.

Sleep patterns of children who do not regularly lead to decreasing levels of white blood cells that make the immune system is weakened. This causes the child to be more fussy. Height growth can also be disrupted if the irregular sleep.

When the bed asleep, the regeneration of cells and organs occurs Growth Hormone beneficial for growth are also excluded.

Sleep also regulates the body's ability to balance, because during sleep repaired nerve cells, resulting in improved ability of the body, ranging from cognitive factors - improving memory - up to psychological.

Sleep Needs Children

Needs range from baby to sleep 15 hours, while children (toddlers to teenagers before) takes about 10-12 hours per day. Adults need to sleep from 7.5 to 8.5 hours per day.
In addition, research conducted by a doctor at the University of Minnesota, USA, against the child's school hours, proving the existence of increased awareness and reduced levels of depression in schoolchildren.

Lack of sleep in school-aged children causing them easier to fall asleep in class. School-age children are not like adults who are still able to work the next day, despite the lack of sleep last night. Children's ability to control the consciousness is strongly influenced body condition.

About Sleep Cycle

In normal sleep the child will experience sleep cycle between phases of "rapid eye movement" (REM) and "non-rapid eye movement" (NREM). Each cycle of REM / NREM will last about 50-60 minutes in infants and will increase to 90 minutes at school age. Within 8 hours of sleep, we will have 5-8 cycles of REM / NREM.

REM sleep is characterized by rapid eye movement, there is no motor movement, breathing and irregular pulse, occasionally moaning or groaning, also dreaming. This phase is the most superficial sleep stages, so many babies and children awakened during REM phases.

Whereas NREM sleep is a deeper stage and divided into 4 stages namely stage one to four (the deepest). At this phase is usually a child will sleep soundly.

7 Little Tricks To sleep

1. Give eat 2-3 hours before bedtime for your child is not hungry
2. Train your child to understand that tonight is the time to sleep, and morning is the time to wake up
3. Teach your child knows that the bed is a place to sleep, and take the child to bed if she was sleepy. For example when he started-ucek rubbed his eyes or pulling at his ear. Make sure the mattress is used it has a good quality to support the bones and weight of children.
4. We recommend using a dim light to sleep and room temperature was made as comfortable as possible. So it is with 'friends' sleep, like a pillow-roll should be made of a safe and comfortable.
5. Before bed, it's good for Moms to clean her little one feel relaxed.
6. Quiet activities, like listening to soft music or storytelling / story
7. If your child awake at night, soon approaching, look for the cause, and then right back to sleep.