Posts Tagged ‘Toddler’
Saturday, August 14th, 2010
There are many benefits gained by giving your baby finger foods, among them:
- Learn to feed themselves, Hold and enter their own food into the mouth is one way of learning for your child to feed themselves. Later this will get you feeling confident that he is able to do baby feeding activity itself, no need to be fed again.
- Starting the first solid food. Providing finger food can also be classified as coach of complementary feeding. It’s just a more specific form which can be grasped by little hands.
- Stimulate the baby’s fine motor. When a baby holding a finger food with his fingers, followed by pushing them into the mouth, actually classed as providing stimulus for the development of fine motor baby. Especially reflex to hold.
- Stimulates tooth growth ahead teething Generally, babies will experience itching in the gums. Providing finger food can stimulate the growth of teeth, while reducing the itching arises because generally have the texture of finger foods.
- Granting Exploration finger food tastes can also be used as a medium to introduce the diverse taste of food in infants. So that the child will be loved by a wide variety of food flavors.
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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Many parents are from the time the toilet training or potty training with uncertainty. “All children are ready at the same age, so it is important that you monitor your child for signs of preparation, such as stopping an activity for a few seconds or clutching his coat.
Most children begin to show these 18 characters to 24 months, although some may be ready before or after. And boys tend to be later and have more time to learn to use the toilets for girls.
Instead of age as an indicator of the election, look for other signs that your child is ready to start toward the bathroom, such as the ability to:
- Follow the instructions
- Understand the words on the process of toilet
- The control of the muscles responsible for elimination
- To express verbally should go
- The dry layer of two hours or more to keep
- First to sit on the toilet, and then go to the toilet
- Dropdown diapers, training pants, disposable underwear
- Show interest to use the toilet or wearing underwear
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Organs, a brain, immune system and detoxification mechanism of children is immature and still developing. The combination of these conditions with the large percentage of food consumption per kilogram of their weight, making children more susceptible to toxins that exist, compared with adults.
Toddlers are a lot of organic foods have pesticide residue stated less th
an 1 / 6 in their urine, compared with children consuming non-organic food.
Elizabeth Gillette’s paper in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives are used as reference by many parties, shows how the combination of exposure to pesticides (although slightly) in the environment, household and food lead to slowing growth in children. Gillette comparing children in two villages which are isolated in Mexico, where one village routinely uses pesticide and the other does not.
All other factors equal-genetic factors, diet, lifestyle, climate, culture, etc.. The study found significant differences between the two groups of children in two villages in terms of mental and motor skills (children exposed to pesticides have a low skill level, with high aggressive behavior).
In many Western countries, children and adults alike are exposed to pesticides. A Study on Mother’s Milk in 1995 found that infants exposed to pesticides in Australia at levels above the maximum limit. In Canada, found a direct correlation between pesticide contaminations in breast milk those increase the risk of otitis in infants.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
The toddler has a great ability to accept new information than older children. Research shows, introducing the activities of reading, language and mathematics since the age of the children, will make them easier to capture those lessons later.
Here are some ways which can encourage and train them to have a smart brain.
- Invited to speak. Tell me about anything to him. What is clear, so the child knows, she is the center of your attention. This will support them in the development of language knowledge and thinking.
- Select children’s books with big letters and pictures are clear. This will help children understand what they see and also slowly learning to read words.
- Buy tapes / VCDs / DVDs in foreign languages. It will be easier to catch a toddler a foreign language than in later days.
- Buy computer software for toddlers. Much software training proficiency using the keyboard as a child before the age of 2.5 years less likely to use a mouse.
- Buy alphabet letters made from plastic and store in the bathroom. Every time a shower, do introduce new letters and repeatedly until the child’s heart. That way, children will slowly begin to learn the relationship between speaking and writing in the language.
- Always be rectified. Many parents feel frustrated if their children repeatedly read one page in the same book or watch a movie / VCD that it-that’s all. Do not disgust and panic! This is an important part in which the child knows the information.
- Buy the letters and figures made of magnet. This allows children to play while learning in front of the fridge. Introduce new words every week.
- Read out one story every day. Read with intonation and expression as we were playing the drama.
- Remember, physical education directly related to academic education. Research shows brain development is also closely related to physical education, like crawling before the age of one year. If you and the children often perform a variety of sports activities together, this can help increase the child’s physical development and brain. Whether it’s running, horseback riding, swimming, and others.
- Buy a set of lessons and education for children under five. These include books, videos, tapes, and how to teach it. Read and learn from both of the child. Buying a free image for your child, there is nothing wrong.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Properly, a mother must always be patient in feeding their children, because of eating not only makes children fulfilled their nutritional needs, but these activities can also be used as a learning experience for toddlers. At the time the child starts talking, eating activities can be used as a means for mothers to teach the concept of taste, expression of taste, color concepts, the concept of texture, the concept of number, and size concepts.
Patience by mothers in performing this activity can facilitate the process of eating and toddlers to develop their insight and knowledge. In terms of eating, the mother or caregiver to act as mediators to introduce various concepts and facts which met the child in his environment. An example is when feeding, the mother can provide information about what to eat, what it’s like, what color, how much, and so forth. Feeding techniques while learning can be done through a few tips:
- Arouse the attention and wants the child to react. Mother took the child to eat and give a sign that the meal has arrived. To attract the attention of children, maternal use of verbal and nonverbal expression, to enable the sensing of children. Mom then took the plate and let the kids hold eating utensils, food, and imitate what the mother said. She was also the name given food, taste, shape, texture, and tightens up with an expression of voice or expression. Repeat this several times.
- Giving praise and raise confidence and competence in children if the child is eating properly. Mothers should not be stingy praise for his son. For example, if he had spent one tablespoon of food, just the mother’s praise of their versatility. Especially when the food can be spent with the neat.
- Get children to plan all activities shall be taken, all actions have demonstrated that patterns of activity in preparing meals, children should also be involved, such as washing hands, preparing food, telling stories about what was done the mother, to clear the table after dinner activity is over. This is done many times, in order to form habits and a healthy diet.
- In order for the learning process becomes much easier and pleasant situation, the mother should also make eye contact with toddlers. In addition, mothers are advised to have a sense of empathy, would give the baby a chance to speak, trying to share a pleasant feeling, and follow what the initiatives and responses of children. Mother or child interactions during feeding intensively this remedy can be used as a means to improve the cognitive abilities of children.
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
In addition to high nutrient, that food should be given to babies should be safe and harmless. In providing safe food for infants, mothers must consider several important things the following:
- Avoid fibrous foods like celery or green beans.
- If you want to give your baby a nutritious fish, first remove the fish bones before crushed.
- Give a chance to digest one type of baby food and see your baby’s reaction after eating the food, who knew she was allergic.
- Give the food in the form of toys. Special toys that can be bitten and swallowed by the baby safely is bananas. Some mothers are also often give her baby carrots and apples and pears poached or steamed to be bitten-bite.
- Cut small pieces of beef and chicken in a cross from the roots. Avoid large pieces that can make a baby to choke.
- Check the pieces of the food prepared. Front baby teeth just to bite. Baby teeth do not show up until a year old child. Babies still suck and not bite.
- Give food that can be held by baby finger when he was sitting, not when you’re playing or lying.
- Sausage is not nutritious food that is safe for babies. One bite-sized sausage trachea can make a baby to choke. Sausage healthy and free nitrate is a food craze toddlers and safe for them when sliced long and small like a noodle. However, even this healthy sausage can contain high amounts of sodium, so that their consumption should be limited.
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Kids are very difficult to eat vegetables. Besides the color of dark green vegetables, it also tends to weird in the mouth of the child. Whereas these vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals they need in times of growth and development. For example, spinach contains many minerals iron, or calcium-rich greens and broccoli with vitamin A it. If kids want to eat vegetables, vitamins and minerals it needs fulfilled and Mother did not have to worry anymore.
In addition, many vegetables also contain fiber digestion is good for the little guy. If he is less fiber it can constipation and can lower the body’s immune system.
Use Tricks
Rejection of the child to eat vegetables began to introduce vegetables to her Mother. When the child had once refused then onwards he will try to get away. Thus vegetable consumption habits must start early precisely when he introduced solid foods (6-8 months).
But if the child had already rejected the Mother inevitably have to be creative to do tricks so that children continue to eat vegetables. Here are some ways that can be used mothers:
usually the child refuses vegetables because of the color and shape. Sports food and hide vegetables such as by slipping it in between the rice balls formed.
Build mood child as comfortable as possible. If a child in a comfortable atmosphere and happy mood he will tend to spend their food. Instead it will be rejected if the atmosphere is uncomfortable and forced.
- Encourage children to show creativity
Mother could take her to make food from vegetables. For example making fried croquettes with spinach content. Little will be eager to eat the food his creation.
Tips:
- Do not force the children eat vegetables. The more he will be increasingly forced to hate vegetables. Just Kreatifkan Mother tricks.
- Mother and her husband should also be pointed out to eat vegetables. Always provide menus vegetables at home and ate together. That way he can learn from the habits of their parents
Tags:Calcium, creation tips, fiber, green vegetables, growth and development, immune system, Inulin, Nutrition, prebiotic, Toddler, Vegetables, vitamins and minerals
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
By the time children grow and develop from infants to toddlers, we often face the dilemma. Their nutritional needs increase, but instead decrease appetite. Obviously this is worrying, because we all know that food is essential for growth and development.
Hard time eating is normal part infancy. At this age, their growth is not as fast as a baby. Added weight also decreased. Plus, they also started to become active. They often can not be silent, let alone to eat. Ways to help them eat can vary but give them a “snack” healthy throughout the day is better than forcing them to eat three times a day on a regular basis with large portions.
Infants and children from ages 1-3 years old require about 1000-1300 calories per day. To meet this need, it’s better if we let them choose their own way of eating. What is important is that we prepare a healthy diet and appropriate for them. They often prefer to eat only one food a lot, and because this is normal, we better have a goal to give them a balanced nutritional meals per-week rather than per-day.
Another way is to give them something to eat at a table and chairs for children, where their feet do not have to rely on a chair hanging like an adult. Maybe sitting at a table and chairs for children are not comfortable for us, but for the small, they would prefer to eat if their feet could hit the floor and they felt they could control their dinner table.
Also, give them food with small portions. At the age of the children, they have not been able to eat normal portions like we are adults. We can also ask his brother, or older friends to eat with them. Toddlers want to imitate the older kids and when he saw a friend or sister to eat, he would be interested in eating well.
They can also be asked to menyicipi at least one or two bites of food. In this way, without forcing, they can try on different types of food so we know what food they prefer. However, make sure the foods that we provide is healthy food, like vegetables and fruits instead of sugary snacks that high can damage their body organ development.
And of course, to ensure adequate nutritional needs of children in times of trouble eat this, complete with giving them two to three glasses of milk a nutritious complete and balanced. With this, we meet nutritional needs but without making them increasingly refusing food because it felt too forced.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Nutrients have an important role to encourage the process of developing a child’s brain grows. Good nutrition is like fuel for the brain. The development of brain circuits rely heavily on the quality of nutrition and stimulation given to infants in the womb to the age since the first three years, or so called golden period of growth (the golden age period).
Rapid growth in human brain cells taken place since the age of the baby until the age of three years. And reached perfection at the age of five years. This makes the fulfillment of nutritional factors as a vital factor in sufficient nutrients for brain development.
Until the age of one year, 60% of energy from breast milk and foods consumed by infants used for brain growth. Therefore, infants and toddlers need lots of protein, carbohydrates and fats.
In addition babies and toddlers need vitamin B1, B6, folic acid, iodine, iron, zinc, AA, DHA, sphyngomyelin (complex lipid content of fat in the brain), sialic acid, and amino acids like tyrosine and tryptophan.
Breast milk contains all these nutrients.
With balanced nutrition, it will add to growth and development of cells and branches on the baby’s brain. And the more the number of branching of brain cells, then the better is also a function of synapses (nerve cell edge) between brain cells. And finally the child is also more intelligent.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
All parents want their children to grow up smartly. What nutrients for brain development are needed? Certainly, parents have realized that the brain DHA in infants is needed to help intelligence. In addition to dietary DHA, the children also need other nutrients to improve their small brain. Nutrition is the arachidonic acid or AA
AA, or Arachidonic Acid is not saturated fatty acids with the chemical name C20H32O2 which are found in the Mother’s Milk. Arachidonic Acid is very important for child nutrition and is a precursor in the biosynthesis partly prostaglandis. AA is part of Omega-6 fatty acids, and AA contained in the phospholipids of cell membranes of the body, especially in the brain.
AA is an important component of brain cells and in addition to AA may also help blood clotting. The addition of a combination of DHA without AA or DHA and AA in the proportion of inadequate does not give any results for growth and brain development.
AA and DHA content of high and said that the milk. Therefore, if mothers have enough milk, do not forget to give your child. Provided that certain conditions in which a mother can not give milk to children under five years children should have to replace the milk with the content of these two important substances, at least 0.2-0.5% of total fatty acids to ensure optimal development of the eye and the brain.
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