Razan Taofek
EAP1
Children's problems
Reading Reaction Journal # 1

Children's Sleep Problems
Reference:
American Academy of Child and Adolescence Psychiatry. (2004.) Children's Sleep Problems. From
http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/childrens_sleep_problems
Vocabulary:
Persistent: happen for a long time
Prevent: to stop, to prevent something means to ensure that it does not happen.
Minimize: reduce
Infancy: is the period or your life when you are a very young child.
Interfere: disapproval
Terror: is very great fear.
Parasomnia: disorder that effect children's sleeping
Pediatrician: children's doctor
Consultation: is a meeting, which is held to discuss something or take advice.
Reversal: change or backtracking.


Summary:
In this article the author told us about some causes of sleeping problems for children like poor sleep habits, anxiety going to bed and emotional difficulties and how children are trying to avoid it. After that the author gives some advice to parents to resolve or minimize sleeping problems, then he talked about nightmares and how it affect children and affect girls more than boys and how it interfere with restful sleep. After that he talked about sleep terrors and he described it and told us how it different from nightmares and when we have to go to a psychologist. After that he talked about how sleep awakes several can be cause for teen's problems. Finally he told us the children get over common sleep problems so the parents should go to a pediatrician or psychiatrist.
Reaction:
In this article the author side that many childhood sleep problems related to poor sleep habits or anxiety going to bed, but I want to say for him that is not enough causes to sleep problems, for example maybe some of them returned to families problems. I agree with him when he side that we have to encourage children to sleep without feeding and rocking. Also I agree with him a hundred percent when he side that we have to take our children to a pediatrician or psychologist to find advice or consultation for our children. Finally I liked this article because it is very useful and spurs families to take their children to a psychologist or pediatrician if their children suffer from sleeping disorder.