Getting children in bed is being a day's work, recognizable? Sometimes children still have too much energy and they can talk for hours, the other time they try to stretch it up for as long as possible. For everyone who is tired or no longer has creative solutions to get his or her child to bed, we have the solution: a bedtime ritual.
Bed-time ritual in small children
When it's time to go to bed, parents become incredibly creative. One sings a song, the other makes shade figures on the wall and another parent first makes a pillow comfort to chat. Time and again it is a challenge to get your child to bed on time and without a battle. A fixed routine or ritual can help with this. A bedtime ritual is actually a fixed routine that parents teach their children so that they know it's time to go to bed. By maintaining a fixed routine, the brain knows that it's time to go to sleep and children automatically get tired around the time they have to go to bed.
Reading
One of the fixed steps in the bedtime ritual can be a reading moment. Put your little one in bed and sit next to him or lie down with a reading book. Every evening you can read a chapter or a few pages of the book. Laughing together, crawling under the blankets with an exciting piece or talking together about the lessons from the story. In this way you create a moment of peace so that sleeping goes a lot easier and better - not falling asleep yourself!
Advantages of reading
Besides that children become calmer from reading aloud, it is also good for the development of language. Because children listen to your voice, they learn to recognize language sounds. And that starts at an early age we can tell you! Babies also learn to develop speech by listening to the stories that their parents tell. Moreover, the children who are a bit older also learn to recognize words and therefore read faster. In short, more than enough reasons to read as a parent!
Make reading a party
Close the curtains, grab your child's favorite book and be immersed in adventure. Do you know what a reading ritual can really finish? With a night light that changes color. Give stories color thanks to the different light positions and colors of the night light to match with the story. Here you will find a few nice night lights that of reading aloud one really make a party.
