Wake up support – from good parents

Wake up support - from good parents

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Babies, but also smaller and older children, need our parental support to find sleep. To see and to feel that mother or father are there gives them the necessary security but also the certainty that everything is taken care of. This allows children to slide over to sleep. As relaxed as it sounds, it is not always true in reality. For example, the children‘s sleep assistance sometimes requires more or less of us parents. Every child is individual in what it needs. In addition, the needs change constantly and constantly.

The sleep accompaniment challenges us parents a lot of empathy and often a lot of patience. Because while we are lying next to the little tossing and rolling toddler, perhaps a messy kitchen and 25 mails waiting to be noticed by us. Maybe you forgot to go to the toilet quickly before going to sleep and now you are lying there with a full bladder while the baby is almost asleep. But not quite …

It is often nice and cuddly to accompany children to sleep. Sometimes it “annoys” a bit, because you have so much else to do right now. And because you already suspect that you will fall asleep again with the child and 1000 things to do until tomorrow morning to be left lying …

Wake up support for morning closeness and security

For many children, in addition to the sleep aid, the wake-up support is just as important. Because not all babies and toddlers will wake up with joy and want to play the same and be active and communicative. Many children also need time for this transition. And above all, closeness and security. You want to be woken up slowly or snuggled up. Maybe you just want to “hang” with mom or dad on your arm and be left alone otherwise. Some children also need something edible very quickly, because the already quite unstable post-waking mood otherwise quickly goes into the basement. Parents are therefore already more or less intensively required when waking up.

Here with us it was and is a little different for each child. And that’s the way it is with all human beings, otherwise we would not have to divide ourselves into owls, larches or morning mums. Here, too, children bring with them a certain basic temperament that we, as parents, have to deal with as well as possible. And that’s more or less easy. Whether asleep or wake-up, as always, it’s about being present and accepting the child as it is.

Sure, with a child jumping out of bed in the morning, it may be easier in school hours. But it certainly brings with it other challenges. It is like it is. Therefore, as always, it remains easiest to accept each child as it has come to us and to give him what it needs right now – whether falling asleep, waking up and of course otherwise. And later, we’ll probably only get it anyway Remember how nice and cuddly it was to watch this sleepy and so good-smelling little human being in our arms waking up. And we will long have forgotten what we did not make it at this time …

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