What about children sleepwalking?

According to statistics, 10- 15% of children have sleepwalked at least once. Most children will stop sleepwalking when they grow up, but about 2% children will still sleepwalk until adulthood. The word "sleepwalking" refers to the phenomenon that people walk around in their sleep. It is related to psychological problems or mood swings, but it has nothing to do with dreaming, because people don't sleepwalk when dreaming. Sleepwalking tends to run in families. When the child sleepwalks, his eyes are still open, but his eyes are dull, as if he can't see anything. Sleepwalkers can leave their homes in a few minutes to 1 hour. Sleepwalking itself does no harm to people, except that children (or adults) wander around in their sleep, sometimes hurting themselves because there is no one to protect them. Parents must find ways to prevent their children from hurting themselves while sleepwalking. This doesn't mean that you should lock him up and keep him from coming out (which may be more dangerous than letting him walk around), but you should put things where you will know when the child is not easy to get hurt or sleepwalking. If it is an older child, you can discuss the solution with him. Install an alarm device If your purpose is to wake up your child, you can hang a bell on his door or install a buzzer with electronic eyes, which will give an alarm when the child gets up and walks. Blocking the exit We know an eleven or twelve-year-old boy who walked out of the gate in his pajamas while sleepwalking and felt embarrassed when he woke up. So he put a chair, a football helmet and an iron dustbin at the door himself. In this way, once he sleepwalks, he will be awakened by the sound of ping-pong. His method is ingenious. If the child is very young, you can chain his door higher, but let the door open a slit with an appropriate width so that he can't go out easily (forcing out will wake him up), and you can call someone else in case of emergency. In addition, safety doors can be installed on the stairs. But never lock the child in the room. Relaxation training combines relaxation skills with the concept of "no sleepwalking". You'd better do exercise before going to bed. When the child is completely relaxed, let him imagine that he is sitting by the bed and is about to sleepwalk, but he wakes up as soon as his feet touch the floor. Or let him imagine that he woke up as soon as he shook the doorknob. Explain the practice method to the child first, and then let him practice his imagination by himself. Let him imagine that he feels proud and happy. Give praise to children's cooperation. Some children are more effective in negative imagination. For example, let the children imagine that they have fallen asleep and walked out of their room and fell on the stairs. Then let him say to himself, "stop, stop and go back to bed." You sleep and walk! " It is terrible to let children feel sleepwalking and falling as truly as possible. Finally, let the children end the imagination exercise with the scene of sleeping in bed by themselves. Praise and reward tell your child how happy you are when the frequency of sleepwalking decreases: "Joe, you only sleepwalked ~ times this week, which is great!" " You can get a gift. "You can also use more formal charts and rewards.