错误：直到很晚才把宝宝放床上
相比于上个世纪来说，本世纪学龄期的宝宝平均比上个世纪的每天晚上少睡超过一个小时的时间，也比他们的父母辈那个时候睡得少。（这一句不懂是不是这么翻译来着，我好弱。。。）儿科医生兼《健康的睡眠习惯》的作者Marc Weissbluth说
“在婴儿时期和青春期的早期，现在的儿童比70、80年代中期的人睡得少” Weissbluth还说，晚睡的结果就是更难哄孩子睡觉、平时的小憩困难和晚上容易惊醒。
可能你一直都还没有让你的新生儿或者是稍大一点的孩子按照规律的时间表来睡眠，或者你下班后没有太多的时间来陪着你的孩子，所以你会让你的孩子先玩一会以至于推迟了睡觉时间。社会服务人员Jill Spivack说“新生儿或者幼童睡得晚会造成他们的过度疲劳”（Jill Spivack也是《轻松睡眠的好方法：0~5岁轻松哄宝宝入睡指南》的作者之一）“过渡疲劳的宝宝更加难以入睡，总是容易惊醒，也比按规律早睡的宝宝醒得早”
在幼儿园和小学，孩子们通常会有很多的活动，这些活动会影响到孩子的睡眠时间。费城睡眠中心副主任、《为孩子的睡眠负责》的作者之一Jodi Mindell说“很多孩子有着很多的事情要做，设想，等全家人都聚齐了，一起吃饭、做作业等等，睡眠就有可能成为被忽略的部分。你可能会因为孩子不愿意睡觉而推迟睡觉的时间或者是希望孩子晚点睡的时候就会很快进入熟睡状态。但Mindell说这是愚蠢的想法，那是因为过度疲劳反而会让宝宝变得兴奋。
好习惯：设定一个规律的睡觉时间（或者是恰当的宝宝打盹的时间）并且坚持执行下去。
千万别等到宝宝开始揉眼睛、打哈欠或者是抱怨的时候才让他们去睡觉，那个时候就太晚啦。早点把宝宝放到床上，提前15~20分钟就会不一样了。
由于每个孩子都存在个体差异，国家睡眠基金会认为：
◆婴儿和幼童一夜需要睡12个小时；
◆学龄前儿童一旦白天不睡觉那晚上就需要13个小时；
◆更大一点的孩子晚上需要10~11个小时。
请在制定睡觉时间的同时规划好孩子起床的时间。
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Mistake: Putting children to bed too late
School-age children get, on average, more than an hour less of sleep a night than children did a century ago, and kids sleep less these days than their parents did growing up. "In infancy and throughout early adolescence, children today get less sleep than they did in the mid '70s and '80s," says Marc Weissbluth, pediatrician and author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. The result of later bedtimes, Weissbluth says, is more bedtime battles, nap difficulties, and night waking.
Maybe you don't have your infant or toddler on a regular sleep schedule or you don't have much time with her after work, so you keep her up a little later to play. "Letting children go to sleep too late as babies and toddlers creates overfatigue," says social worker Jill Spivack, cocreator of The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5. "When they become overtired, they have a harder time falling asleep and staying asleep, and they get up earlier than if they were put down at an appropriate time."
In preschool and elementary school, a jam-packed schedule with multiple sports or after-school activities may cut into sleep time. "A lot of kids have too much to do," says Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and coauthor with Judith Owens of Take Charge of Your Child's Sleep.
Think about it: By the time your whole family gets home, has dinner, does homework, and so on, sleep may become a forgotten priority. Or you might put off bedtime to avoid battles or in the hope that your child will crash, fall asleep without any intervention, and sleep in late. But this is folly, says Mindell, because when kids are overly tired, they get wired.
Good habit: Set regular bedtimes (and, if appropriate, nap times) and stick to them. And don't wait until your kid is rubbing his eyes, yawning, or whining — that's probably too late. Put him to bed earlier. Even 15 to 20 minutes of extra sleep can make a difference.
While every child is different, the National Sleep Foundation says that babies and toddlers typically need 12 hours of sleep during the night, preschoolers need up to 13 hours once they drop daytime naps, and older kids should get 10 to 11 hours. Figure out what time they need to be up in the morning and plan accordingly.
