It is more important for a child to get accustomed with a new situation and environment of the school for the first time. If the child is getting transferred from one school to another then it becomes little easier for a child to cope up. As in comparison to first school goers, these children are friendlier by nature and familiar with school concept.

But while it is for the first time to the school, then parents should take initiative to make your child comfortable with the pros and cons of the school. They should be little more sensible to make their child understand about the importance and fun of school.

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From very early stage of life, the torture of bullies in the school or play ground considerably affect child’s life. Kind of bully act may come in the form of teasing, pushing or hitting. It is normally seen from the junior school to high school in almost every child’s life. Usually, victims of bully may face various psychological problems in future like inferiority complex, loneliness, anxiety, low self-esteem etc.

This kind of child usually reacts to bully by crying, withdrawing and acting out. This kind of bully activity may make the child avoid going to school and poorer in performance. Gradually, this kind of children starts developing depression, low self worth, insecurity and low self-esteem.

This kind of child does not confide and express his or her grief against bully act to anyone. They start fearing other kids. This kind of child starts getting psychologically disturbed.

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Children at different stages of life should get proper sleep in order to avoid health and mental problems. Insufficiency in sleep can lead to delay in motor response, irritability, poorer memory and concentration and other health problems, which can harm your child’s life considerably.

Requirement of sleep in different age is as below:

3-year olds- 12 hours (including a nap)

10 year olds 10 hours

Teenagers should have about 9 hours of sleep each night

Usually, it often happened that your child throws tantrums before going to bed. For example: crawls into bed with you during the night, repeatedly gets out of bed before falling asleep, or takes a long time to fall asleep etc.

There are few guidelines following that can make you more comfortable in controlling your child during bedtime.

Pre-bedtime routine

• Keep the bedroom free of electronic devices like TV, Phone, and Video games etc.
• Make the bedding arrangement simple and subtle. Your child’s favorite blanket, pillow and side pillow.
• Make your child’s game inaccessible to him/her.
• Try to maintain bedroom’s environment cool and dark.
• Try to make a short pre-bedtime routine for your child like wearing night dress, brushing teeth, washing hand and legs, taking a glass of milk and praying to god before going to bed.

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Does your child wake up at midnight and start screaming or shouting? And when you go to pacify him/her the child would all the more start shouting loudly pushing you back. This is because the child is in his sleep and is not recognizing that the person he is screaming for is by his side only. This type of phenomena is known as night terror. Here the child becomes uncontrollable and devastated but it is just for few minutes and then the child is fast asleep again. The child won’t be aware of his last night’s terror the very next morning which is distinct from a nightmare.

Reason behind night terror

Night terror generally occurs between an age group of 3-5 years. This is because of the disturbance in sleep. These age group children generally sleep an hour or two in the afternoon and then if suddenly they stop taking a sleep during daytime results in a night terror. When a sleep cycle changes, part of child’s brain is forcing him to sleep while another part wants to remain awake resulting in a night terror.

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