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What do parenting experts suggest you do when your children have night terrors?
What is the best way to deal with kids and nightmares? Are nightmares and night terrors the same thing?
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According to webmd.com, a nightmare is a bad dream that usually involves an imagined danger or threat. Nightmares typically involve disturbing themes and images like monsters, ghosts, or bad people. Children do not usually cry out or move around while they are having a nightmare. Most nightmares are a normal part of coping with changes in our lives. A small percentage of children's nightmares can be due to genetics, meaning their parents most likely had nightmares as children. Comforting the child with a hug and assuring them everything is fine after a nightmare is a great way to calm them down. Some children feel better after talking about the bad dream.
Night terrors is a sleep disorder that occurs in children up to the age of twelve. Like nightmares, night terrors can be caused by stressful events in the child's life. When a child is having a night terror they experience reoccurring episodes of crying and it is hard to wake them. When my middle child used to have night terrors I would try to hold him. He would kick and scream but would never wake up when he was having one. Children usually grow out of them so I never sought treatment. I read that it is best to leave the child alone and let them calm down on their own when they are having night terrors but being a mother, I still rubbed his back when he was kicking too much to be held. It may be best to seek treatment or at least talk with your child's pediatrician, especially if the night terrors are occurring at least once a week.
Night terrors is a sleep disorder that occurs in children up to the age of twelve. Like nightmares, night terrors can be caused by stressful events in the child's life. When a child is having a night terror they experience reoccurring episodes of crying and it is hard to wake them. When my middle child used to have night terrors I would try to hold him. He would kick and scream but would never wake up when he was having one. Children usually grow out of them so I never sought treatment. I read that it is best to leave the child alone and let them calm down on their own when they are having night terrors but being a mother, I still rubbed his back when he was kicking too much to be held. It may be best to seek treatment or at least talk with your child's pediatrician, especially if the night terrors are occurring at least once a week.
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