Apparently, parenting can be a nuisance if you don’t know how to handle your kids and get them to bed on time. Especially if they have these distractions such as computer games, gadgets or even have friends over, chances are even you may lose sleep with all the racket that they may be making. So how do you deal with them?

The key is to set some rules when its time to hit the sack. No playing of games or even placing them outside the room towards a neutral place in your home would be nice. Also, the usual lights out can always do the trick as kids constrained in the dark can force them to sleep as they have nothing else to do to distract them.

Some kids may have nightmares from trauma from these practices. But you can do some things to turn them into dreams. Just set your rules and stand by them. It may be hard for parents with soft-hearts but health and good sleep is bound to be the best result to negate all of it.

(Source) Telegraph.co.uk

Tags: bedtime, computer games, distractions, Dreams, gadgets, good sleep, neutral place, nightmares, nuisance, parenting, parents, trauma

This entry was posted on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm and is filed under How to sleep better, SLEEP Fun, SLEEP News, Sleep Issues.
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