Proper wakefulness can often determine the quality and quantity of subsequent sleep. First, we try to walk twice a day, before and after lunch, and we go out in any weather. For me, walking is law. Keep me at home can only pouring rain or the temperature of someone from the kids. Do not be lazy to walk with children! By the way, it is useful for you too!
Until 10 am, the children help me load the laundry, vacuum, cook dinner, and then we go for a walk. And the walk can be accompanied by a trip to the store to buy bread for dinner. Sometimes we go to look at the train, which passes near our house, we feed the pigeons, we play in the sandbox, we swing on the swings, we blow bubbles, we run and jump, in general, we try our best to spend time.
But at exactly 12 o'clock my children should be at home. Already from 11:30, I begin to warn them that soon we will go home, and at home we will rest and this is very healthy, because in a dream we grow, we become stronger, and then we go for a walk again and we will definitely find that snail Now we are so interested. The children may say that they are not tired, that they still want to take a walk, that they are having fun, but the regime is the regime, and the mother knows better what the child needs, and therefore we go home, wash, have a snack and lie down to rest.
I try to have the children at least half an hour at home, until the moment when they go to bed. For these half an hour, they calm down a little after the street, can play quiet games, help me to prepare my rooms for bed: clean up the toys, close the curtains, turn on the humidifier.
Nutrition for good sleep
Proper nutrition is important not only for the development of the child, but also for his sleep. Firstly, a hungry child will not fall asleep or will definitely wake up at night. A child who has eaten a lot of sweet food all day will most likely be hyperactive and “hard to lay down.” Based on this, I prefer for dinner to have vegetables and meat, that is, p