Archive for September, 2006

There are numerous ways to talk to your children about sleep habits.

Good sleep habits should be created early in life so they become regular instinct early and potential troubles can be prevented later on in life.

Sleep routines started as a child usually carry over into adolescent and adult life.

It is your job as a parent to infuse in your children a sense of good sleep habits now, so they will have them for life.

Why Do Children Doesn’t Want To Sleep

Most of the children try to fight it, when they hear it is time for bed. You ever observe a small child when she is tired, starts crying and getting irritable. Her body is telling her it is time for sleep, but she does not want to. She fights it as long as she can.

Sometimes they feel like they are being treated unfair because their older siblings and the adults don’t have to go to sleep, so they fight it. Sometimes children are afraid that if they go to sleep, they will miss out on something. They don’t want to go to bed, even if they are sleepy and tired.

Bed wetting or nocturnal enuresis can be a distressing problem for both children and adults in a similar way.

Bed wetting is a sensitive topic that is usually regarded as a taboo, and one needs to take extreme caution when talking to their child about a bed wetting problem.

It can be hard as a parent to decide what you should and shouldn’t say to your child about bed wetting.

About 40% of all children that are three years old, and roughly five million children that are over age five are affected with bed wetting. While the problem bed wetting generally disappears on its own, there are some things to consider when helping your child to get through the problem.

Discuss With Your Child about Bed Wetting

Children can be very embarrassed about their bed wetting problem, but it’s significant to talk about the issue so that you can have a clear line of communication when it comes to solving the problem.

One significant thing to note is to tell your child that it is not their fault that they wet the bed. Parents may be doing more harm than good when trying to help bed wetting if they attack their children with harsh words.

It was earlier believed the cause of bed wetting is a sleep disorder.

This is because in some children snoring appears to accompany bed wetting.

Snoring in children can sometimes be a result of what is known as obstructive sleep apnea.

This breathing problem is much more common in adults, particularly middle aged men, than it is in children but children can still develop it.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a partial obstruction to or intermittent interruption of the flow of air to the lungs, enough to seriously interfere with breathing.

Large Adenoids

The most common cause of OSA to develop is children are due to large adenoids. The adenoids are to be found located behind the nasal passages and are similar in their function to tonsils as they are collections of lymph glands that serve to fight infection.

Plenty of children who have large adenoids do snore but don’t essentially suffer from obstructive sleep apnea. Nor are they any more likely to suffer with bed wetting on a regular basis.

Those children who do develop obstructive sleep apnea suffer short periods of time throughout the night when they in fact stop breathing all together.

Sleep is very important to humans. Mammals, reptiles, and birds also have to sleep.

Studies have shown that people can live longer without food than they can without sleep.

Why Do We Sleep

Although the accurate reasons for sleep remain a mystery, we do know that during sleep many of the body’s major organ and regulatory systems continue to work actively.

Some scientists have proposed that without any biological foundation we may sleep out of mere habit. Sleep may be a time for the brain to recharge. The brain shuts down and repairs neurons and exercises synapses that may slowly break down and weaken with a lack of activity during sleep.

This could be a time for fine tuning the synaptic connections that get stronger, weaken, break and reform. Sleep, it is theorized, is a time to shift those synaptic connections back to their original design after they have been jumbled up during the day.

Some parts of the brain actually raise their activity dramatically, and the body produces more of certain hormones. No one knows exactly why we sleep but several scientific theories have been proposed.