Prepare a Healthy and Safe Children's Room

Most parents choose to sleep with their baby from birth. The reason is, to always be ready to look after the baby, especially when he needs you at night. In fact, it is important for you to teach your child to want to sleep in a child's room. But over time, sharing a room with Little is not a good thing and can interfere with your various activities, such as during sleep, intimate relationships with a partner, or if you have a second child. This is the time for you to prepare a separate children's room for Little One as the next stage of maturity.

Do This to Teach It Sleep Alone

Teaching your child to sleep alone is not an easy matter, because he may feel left out if you do it directly and not gradually. Before telling him to sleep alone in a child's room, then do the following things so that he is not surprised when sleeping alone, such as:

• Start teaching him to sleep alone in his room during the daytime. Because during the daytime, Little One tends not to be afraid of darkness as night falls.
• At night, let your little one sleep in your room. However, learn not to be in the same bed with him. Put a comfortable mattress or folding mattress on the floor as his bed as a training process for him to want to sleep alone. This is useful for practicing sleep alone but still feels safe because it is still in your watch.
• Do not forget to tell and explain to him about the benefits of sleeping alone in a child's room. For example, by sleeping in his own room, Little is free to decorate the contents of his room with things he likes, such as putting up posters or favorite cartoon images.
• Do not hesitate to teach him to sleep alone in a child's room. Reduce your presence in his room, so that he used to be alone in his room. This can make him independent and brave to learn.
• Do this consistently and slowly. If the child sneaks into your room in the middle of the night and tries to seduce you to sleep together, try to ignore it and don't be bored to remind him of the benefits of sleeping alone in his room. Take your little one back to the room.
• Make him comfortable and explain to him that nothing is scary as long as the Little One is in his own room.

Tips for Preparing a Safe Child's Room

Before you teach Little to sleep alone in his room, make sure all the things in his room are safe and not harmful. Some things you should check and make sure their safety includes electronic goods, furniture in the Little One's room, and a variety of toys that may be dangerous to him. Don't put an interesting toy on a high shelf that can be pushed or climbed. If you have a window in Little's room, make sure the window is secure and properly locked. Do not choose curtains that can be pulled down. Tie and remove the hanging window cover. Do not let the wires in his room scattered, because your child could have played with these cables. In addition, choose a mirror or picture frame that is safe to put in the Little One's room, because a heavy frame can be dangerous if he falls. Also avoid decorating rooms that use long ribbons or anything that might strangle them. And most importantly, choose water-based paint for the walls of his room. Because this type of paint ideally contains volatile organic compounds or lower sources of pollution. Make sure your child's room is well-ventilated to exchange air. Some of the ways above you can do so that the Little accustomed and dare to sleep alone in his room. When children feel safe, comfortable, and have the desire to sleep alone, the next step you can try to help him to make it comfortable in his room. Some ways you can do it, including:

• Put her favorite doll or blanket that can accompany her while sleeping.
• You can read a fairytale at night before Little One sleeps in his room. After he sleeps, you can leave him to sleep alone in his room. Do this for about a week.
• Even though your child is used to sleeping alone in his room, you can accompany him by sitting in his bed. Then from sitting on his bed, you can try sitting on the floor, and then accompany him only to the door of his room.

Actually there is no standard age when a child must sleep in his own room. When a newborn is born, in fact room separation can be done. Most importantly, give an explanation to the Little One that he must learn to be brave and independent so he must sleep alone in his room. And remind you that you are always nearby if your child needs you at any time.