What should I do if my child has nightmares at night?

When children are sleeping, parents usually stay with them, for fear that their children may have problems sleeping, especially if the children are only a few months old. Some parents have found that their children would wake up startled during their sleep, feel particularly uneasy in their sleep, and even cry loudly. Generally, the main cause of this situation is nightmares. What should you do if your child has nightmares at night?

Family Atmosphere:

The environment in which a child grows up is crucial, and the first thing to be affected is the relationship between husband and wife. If parents can live in harmony with each other, it will add a protective umbrella for the child's growth. Otherwise, if parents quarrel and conflict, it will bring a fatal blow to the child. This experience will be deeply buried in the child's heart and is likely to appear when the child is sleeping, thus forming a nightmare.

Family education style:

A family's parenting style also has an impact on their children. If the family's upbringing is very strict, with criticism at the very least and beatings and scolding at the worst, this can also cause children to have nightmares. Because when children do things, their hearts will be full of worries. This worry will be hidden in the child's subconscious mind, and it will surface at night.

Too much stimulation during the day

Television: Children who often watch "violent" cartoons may also experience some abnormal phenomena. Of course, watching cartoons is only an indirect cause of nightmares in children. However, if children watch TV for a long time, it will affect their attention and visual development. It is recommended to reduce TV stimulation;

Society: For children under 7 years old, especially those under 4 years old, if they often go to noisy places, such as shopping malls, supermarkets, wedding venues, etc., the brain will receive a lot of information and cannot process it. The information will accumulate and it will be difficult to recover at night, which will lead to nightmares.

Worry, persistent anxiety:

Although children are very young, they have many things in their hearts. Children's constant worry and anxiety are the main causes of nightmares! To give a few simple examples, if parents often quarrel and get divorced, children will worry indefinitely and often dream of their parents separating and no one wanting them, and they are always woken up by fright. There are also children who love the food in a restaurant very much, but one day they see a cat there and their hearts are filled with worries. Why? Because her parents taught her that if a cat appears in a restaurant, that restaurant is dirty and she cannot eat there. In the child's mind, she can no longer eat the noodles at that restaurant, which is a pity. She is always worried and anxious: when can she eat it again?

What should I do if my child often has nightmares, cries in the middle of the night, and wakes up in fright?

At any stage, make sure it is not caused by a physiological disease. Be sure to go to the hospital for a check-up and ask a doctor.