Help your child overcome a nightmare

Your baby doesn't always get a good night's sleep. Occasionally, babies are invaded by fear and turn them into a nightmare in their sleep. What to do to help your baby get through here?

Decoding nightmares
Like adults, babies dream while sleeping. Beautiful dreams and nightmares often appear at the end of sleep. The evil one until the baby sleeps not deeply. Then the brain recreates a certain image that the baby has a concept or seen in real life or watches TV, books, or pictures, but comes in a more dangerous shape that makes him feel scared.

Due to the rich imagination, babies easily "see" the threats, the big monsters ... Mostly, when they wake up, they will remember details in their dreams.

In addition, nightmares are also a manifestation of psychological disorder with strong and harmful emotions such as fear, stress, anxiety ... If your baby often has nightmares during sleep, give Children see psychiatrists and psychiatrists to make sure they are diagnosed and treated early.

Nightmares will be very terrible for children under 5 years old because their spirit is still young, they make little distinction between real and dreaming.

Common Causes
There are many causes of nightmares, but the most common are mistakes in the following daily activities:

Babies watch TV or movies too much during the day and especially watch scary images before bed.

Babies playing too much create a state of nervous excitement before going to sleep.

Parents often scare the baby with scary images such as: "Mr. Ke", "Mr. Ba Be" will come to arrest the child if the child is not good.

Your baby's room is too furnished, causing a feeling of suffocation and different shapes in the dark. Baby room is too dark, there are "shelters" for "monsters". Or the trees outside the window of the baby room are too tall and overgrown to create a scary, rough appearance.

Children see scenes of parents arguing, even violence in the house.

Helping your baby overcome a nightmare
Do not use scary monster images to scare your baby for any purpose.

Before going to bed, the mother and the baby "consider" a circle in the room to make the baby assured that everything is safe.

Let your baby know that she is always there for her, if she feels scared , she will come anytime.

Comfort your baby with a certain "treasure" such as: a pillow with power to protect, a teddy bear against ghosts ...

If your baby is afraid of the dark, a night lamp with a soft light will be a good solution. You can also read fairy tales or let your baby listen to the gentle melodies before bed. If necessary, the mother stays with the baby for a while until the baby falls asleep before leaving.

Never scold or think your child's nightmare is stupid. On the one hand, the baby will be hurt because of being "looked down on", on the other hand, the baby will feel lonely because the mother does not support him.

When children wake up with nightmares, hold them in their arms to comfort them and let them know that their mothers are always there, they are always safe.

Encourage your child to talk about their nightmare and analyze it to show that it is not really as scary as it imagined. Maybe that "ghost" is just the shape of something or "ghost" just wants to play with the baby without the intention of harming.

Give your child a lovely room with a warm family atmosphere. Your baby will find that home is a really safe and happy place and one evil or unreasonable fear of not visiting your baby anymore.