Child Behavior and Child Sleep Patterns

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When it comes to child behavior or parenting advice, don't be concerned if your child displays the child sleep pattern of an early riser.

While child behavior problems can stem from too little sleep, the child will generally fall into the child sleep pattern that is healthy and natural for him if:

• he is in a stable, loving environment
• not over-exposed to intense emotionalism and nervousness,
• consistently treated in a caring, conscious manner,
• provided with a basically healthy diet and sufficient physical exercise.

The child sleep pattern of awakening 5AM - 6 AM is not only perfectly normal, it is a great indicator that he finds life interesting (a sign of healthy attention) and feels enough love to be eager to get into his day. You will probably find child behavior more manageabele if your child is a "morning person".

Those young children who display the child sleep pattern of sleeping later may feel some depression and it may be a sign that the child is allowed or forced to stay up too late.

You might wisely regard the child sleep pattern of an early riser as a welcome sign, and one indicating a positive child behavior future.

The child sleep pattern of an early riser is something you definitely do not want to discourage, because that pattern will support him later when he needs to wake up (sometimes in the dark) to arrive at school on time.  

The Sleepy Child = A Child Behavior Problem

The child behavior pattern of the early morning riser makes a wonderful, though subtle, contribution to child development: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. 

The child is nurtured and awakened to life at a very deep level by the natural activities that occur around sunrise.  The beginning of the new day connects his spirit to the beginning of his new life in gentle but rich ways. 

You can actually improve young child behavior patterns by:

• letting him hear the birds singing in the morning
•  letting her see the sky as it changes from darkness into light

This teaches the child profound life-wisdom on a non-verbal level, including the fact  that light (enlightenment, wisdom, learning) follows darkness (ignorance, uncertainty, doubt) if you are willing to awaken. 

Additionally, the morning light reveals that the concealed (the spiritual, invisible world) is really beautiful and nothing to fear. This helps the child attune to the deeper feelings of compassion that then can gude child behavior from within.

The early morning child sleep pattern permits the songs of the birds to strike a sacred chord, awakening the child to the sensibility of the sacred within himself, others, life, and the natural environment.  The young child then behaves with more sensitivity and respect without having to be told.

The early morning awakens and nurtures the joy of just being alive, and that joy translates into wonderful child behavior. 

Without the joy of being alive, the child tends toward over-dependence upon possessions and external intense sensation to hold his interest (symptoms of and contributors to a weak attention). 

In sum, his early morning awakening produces a more deeply caring, aware, optimistic attitude and more positive child behvior.

For the best child behavior make bedtime around 8 am
for children under six.

If you let or make children stay up later, as their tiredness increases their power of self-control diminishes, resulting in over-emotionalism, weaker attention and a display of behavior problems. To improve child behavior, improve the child sleep pattern.

Make child bedtime a calm, loving and harmonious time of bonding, helping him to get in synch with the coming on of night, to cultivate the rich inner development of imagination and trust that night brings to the young child's inner life. 

Make early morning a time for gently awakening cheer helping the child to get into the day in a loving way, with a foundation of confidence that he is truly loved.

To lead your young child into sleepiness in the evening for the early riser child sleep pattern, and into bright awakening in the morning, provide him with activities that interest him that involve his fine motor skills. This can be as simple as having him move small beads, one at a time, from one cup into another.

By enticing your child to exercise his physical and mental concentration in this way, he exhausts himself in the evening and brings his mind into sharp focus in the morning. This is how to cultivate the early morning riser child sleep pattern for the wonderful child behavior that follows.

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