Sleep

Babies

This is super tricky for young babies. Too much nap in the day , they can't sleep at night. Too little nap in the day, they will keep stirring at night too. So for Cayson now who's around 9 months old, he needs around 3-4 hours of day naps to sleep through the night from 7.30pm to 6am. Anything less, he is likely to stir through the night or wake up from 4am onwards. 

4 year old

Recently Cayen's behaviour has improved leaps and bounds, touchwood I believe the terrible 3 phase is over. We did a lot of things in the last one year - rewards charts ,  incessant reading of books promoting good behaviour, role play , executive functioning classes and sleeping 1 hour earlier every night. 

While there's occasional tantrum flares, usually I notice it's due to missing the day nap , or sleeping too late (past bedtime). As such, my hypothesis is that sleep is one of the key drivers to good behaviour because kids so young need enough sleep. I recall his peak tantrums kind of coincided with the time he decided to sleep at 10.30-11.30pm every night (and had to wake up at 7.15am). 

Now with a 9.30pm sleep time, he wakes up jovial every morning and will even greet his teachers happily during check-in. I attribute this thriving behaviour to sleeping earlier and kudos to Ah Pa for enforcing. 

Adult

Sleep - just can't get enough