Children often have problems in settling down
to rest and sleeping at bedtime. If you are struggling to make your child go to
bed, relaxing music could help. Slow rhythms and melodies of music can help
create a peaceful atmosphere that encourages your child to go into the realm of
dreams.
Physiological effect
Slow
and relaxing music can even cause sleepiness by helping your child feel safer
If you play slow and relaxing music just
before your child goes to bed and during her bedtime, music can have
physiological effect on her little body to help her relax. Naturally, the heart
and breathing rates slow response to relaxing music. Slow and relaxing music
can even cause sleepiness by helping her feel safer.
Relaxing environment
Slow
and relaxing music can even cause sleepiness by helping her feel safer
Environment that you create for your child at
bedtime can have a great impact on how cooperative she is with sleep and how
well she sleeps. It is useful to introduce relaxing activities for 30 minutes
before she goes to bed, and playing relaxing music can help you create this
atmosphere. You can also rock her and sing lullabies to help her be relaxed and
become sleepy.
Selecting music
Selecting
music is very important to make sure it has the desired effects on your child
Selecting music is very important to make sure
it has the desired effects on your child. Choose music with a constant slow
rhythm instead of music changes from fast to slow or vice versa. Soft, smooth,
tones of strings may be an option for soothing music, but this is a personal
choice, and your child can enjoy the different instruments.
Other times for music
If music helps your child feel relaxed, you
can use it at other times of the day. You can also use music at other
transition times to help her feel calm. Perhaps in the late afternoon while you
are preparing dinner, you can play soothing music in the kitchen to help her
play quietly. In the morning during breakfast, soothing music can help her ease
into the new day with optimism.
