Children's regime of the day in summer

Scientists found that during the school yearmost children do not sleep enough. By the beginning of the vacation, the exhaustion from school is gradually increasing, and at first the child feels very tired. Hence - the desire to sleep longer to sleep. But over time, fatigue passes, and the habit of long sleep remains. Gradually, the child begins to go to bed later: after all, he slept until dinner, and at night he does not want to sleep. It turns out that the regime of the day is strongly shifted in summer.

Many parents do not care: all the same, there is no urgent training for the child, so why should not he sleep longer? They forget that in three months the child will again go to school, and the children's regime of the day will have to be returned to the previous channel - which will turn out to be uneasy! So that to adhere to the regime of the day in summer is very important, so that in the autumn it does not take a painful transition to the "educational" routine of the day.

Of course, this does not mean that during the holidays the child should get up at six in the morning on an alarm clock, and the children's regime of the day should be painted every minute. The main thing that the child got up and went to bed, breakfasted, dined and ate about the same time. In the summer the child should go to bed and get up not too late, but not too early.

It is important to the length of the child's sleep matched his biological needs. Junior students need to sleep at least tenhours per day, students of middle and senior classes - at least nine. Too long a duration of sleep is harmful as well as a lack of sleep: after a long sleep a child can feel sluggish and broken.

Sometimes a child can not fall asleep in time in the summer, because it's getting dark late in the street. In this case, it should be to bed in a darkened room (for example, with curtains pulled tight). This can help. If you have a TV or computer, do not put them in the children's bedroom: the child may not resist the temptation to watch TV or play on the computer instead of sleeping.

Often the children's regime of the day is violated in the summer because the child is simply bored: he does not know what to do with himself. So you need to figure out what to do with a childin summer. Interesting and useful activities will help to form the optimal regime of the day. And in the evening, feeling a pleasant fatigue from an actively lived day, the child will calmly fall asleep.

In the daily routine it is necessary to provide for a variety of activities: outdoor games, sports, feasible helpat home, reading, playing creativity, watching movies and cartoons, hiking to the beach and to nature. Of course, it's hard to control what the child does all day, if you yourself work. But surely your child has grandparents who, during the school year, do not see him as often as they would like, and they will happily spend a day or two with him. And if your child has already graduated from junior school age, adherence to the regime of the day will be on his conscience: you must once start educating responsibility.

If you do not have any possibility to control the children's regime of the day in the summer, you can send the child to the camp: there certainly will follow the schedule of his day and find what to do with it. If for some reason you do not want or can not let the child go to a summer camp, there is a compromise: day camp. Such camps exist in schools,educational centers, centers for the study of foreign languages, religious organizations (if you are associated with some kind of religious community). The first half (or even most) of the day the child is in the camp, where he is entertained in every way, and then returns home. Staying in such a camp will help him to keep the regime of the day in the summer.