Family Tips

According to all available information from the American pediatrists, only the following facts have been experimentally proved:

1. Breast feeding of the child with hereditary susceptibility to an allergy even for four months reduces risk of cow’s milk protein allergy and diathesis.

2. Breast feeding for three months reduces risk of a false croup, but whether it reduces risk of an asthma in more elder age – is not clear for the present time.

3. Soy-based breast milk substitutes do not reduce risk of an allergy. Hypo-allergenic milk formulas have some efficiency in this respect, but only “moderate” one.

4. Up to 4 - 6 months children do not need the solid food, but absence of eggs, fish and other potentially “allergenic” food in a diet of more senior children does not reduce risk of allergic reactions.

5. The women who have excluded from the diet some products for the time of pregnancy and breast feeding, cannot save children from an allergy - at least, researches do not confirm efficiency of such measures.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has adopted new recommendations on breast feeding and prophylaxis of an allergy at babies, informs Associated Press. The old recommendations, which imposed a set of restrictions on nursing mothers and pregnant women, are cancelled: the researches carried out for the last seven years, have not confirmed, that these restrictions can actually save children from allergic reactions, including asthma.

From all former recommendations only one has been confirmed and proved by researches: children should be breast-fed in the first months of a life, and it really reduces risk of children’s allergies. As to restrictions on the use of any products by pregnant or nursing mothers, none of the researches confirmed, that these measures can lower risk of an allergy.

According to previous recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, adapted in August, 2000, nursing mothers whose children have hereditary susceptibility to an allergy were recommended not to use for food cow milk, eggs, fish, peanuts and other nuts. For seven years doctors have not manage to confirm, that food restrictions can prevent allergies.

32 % of the Spanish schoolboys in the age from 8 to 11 years have never tasted spinach, 23 % do not know taste of tomatoes, and 15 % have never eaten oranges, informed fund Dieta Mediterranea, supporting creation of culinary workshops at schools.

These are only some of survey results. Having developed simple dishes for the school based on the samples of nutritional researches, pupils have filled the questionnaires specifying what products they have never tasted earlier. So, 31,9 % have declared, that they never tasted spinach, 22,93 % tomatoes and 22,75 % do not know taste of asparagus.

Among other, seldom eaten products, were named onions (16,33 %), oranges (14,77 %), olives (21,43 %), carrots (15,87 %), pine nuts (26,58 %) and tinned tuna (22,66 %). Two years ago for propagation of a healthy diet the fund has developed the program of culinary workshops at schools to introduce the major products for children.

At what age to accustom the child to a chamber-pot? Till now the psychologists have not a common opinion in this respect. It is considered, that it is time to accustom the child to cleanliness, when he or she is physiologically and psychologically matured for this. But the age of this maturity in various cultures and time was determined in different ways.

At the beginning of the twentieth century the West-European pediatricians considered, that the appropriate time for this is already in the first months of the child’s life, later «the age of neatness» was put off further and further.

The modern European and American mums are advised to start this process from 15-20 months, or even to wait up to two years. Otherwise, consider French and American psychologists, in future the child can face various troubles from a neurosis up to an enuresis.

Father who stays at home and is engaged in education of the son, badly influences the future life of the child, have found out the British scientists. Little boys, according to results of the paid by the state research, in this case develop more slowly and are less ready to education, than other children. It’s interesting that statement of the British scientists does not concern little girls.

Researchers observed for 6000 families and analyzed the situation when mothers come to work, and the fathers stay with children. Scientists warn that it can lead to change of traditional roles in a family.

Elizabeth Vashbruk from Bristol University informed that has firm evidences: a child who at a very young age spends at least 15 hours per week with a father, develops worse at school, than a child who spent more time with a mother; it concerns only boys, but not girls.

Researchers assume that the reasons of this phenomenon are that mothers are more adapted for care of the child, than the fathers. For example, one of the advantages of the parent care is breast feeding. Women, probably, more confidently and more qualified bring up children, and absence of a mother has injurious emotional action on the child.

Discuss with children, both girls and boys, the following:

Danger of trying to alter a figure with the help of a diet;
Advantages of physical exercises for both a figure, and health as a whole;
Importance of regular meal, at least, 3 times a day and using of various foodstuffs.
Besides you should be an example of an eutrophy and physical activity.

Tell children that physical exercises should give pleasure, instead of being just means for fat burning and waste of calories.

Explain children that they should not avoid any activity (for example, dances, swimming, etc.) only because of their excess weight.

Teach your kids to perceive people, especially women, not «according to the cloth» but reasoning from their words, deeds, thoughts.

Explain to children that the fashionable image of a model only helps to sell clothes, but people should aspire to be individuality.

Encourage activity of children and praise them more often. Do not limit the amount of calories eaten by children just because you want to do this way. Simply feed them qualitatively and correctly.

The given article is called to help parents to prevent serious psychological disorders, which can lead to anorexia and bulimia.

The most important that you should do before teaching your children, is to understand how current opinion has affected your views concerning appearance and figure. Further to become reconciled with yourself and only after that to tell children about genetic features of a female and man’s body, about the nature of prejudices.
By the way, plumpness in hips, waists and hands is genetically caused feature of a female organism, so to say, a stock of nutrients for the child, and also protection (waist area) of a fetus from a cold and mechanical damages.

Analyze your dreams and aspirations. Ask yourself: whether you demand too much from the child concerning his or her appearance? Especially it concerns girls. Whether you frequently criticize the child as that: «do not eat so much; if you weighed less, I would like you more; you do not look as this girl from a cover; these fashionable things are only for such slim girls, as models and so on … ».

Such statements are direct way to such diseases as an anorexia and bulimia.

Hundred thousands American teenagers take strong drinks and drugs. Such are the results of the research conducted on demand of one of the U. S. Department of Health’s divisions. In 2006 in the USA 1,2 million teenagers smoked, 631 thousand - took alcohol and 586 thousand - smoked marihuana.

At that about 27 thousand took hallucinogens, 13 thousand smelt cocaine and 3,8 thousand took heroin. Head of the division Terri Klein has marked, that the collected data show essential reduction in number of the teenagers who smoke, took alcohol and narcotic substances.

The situation began to improve since 2002. It was informed also that a year before, in 2005 over 76 thousand teenagers underwent out-patient treatment for alcoholic, nicotine or narcotic dependence, and more than 1 thousand of minors were treated in the specialized establishments.

American scientists have found out that children and teenagers with depression and increased feeling of anxiety, and also other mental disorders are more subject to an allergy.

American scientists examined more than 180 children and teenagers in the age of from four to twenty years for various mental disorders and allergies. 57% of the research participants had allergic reactions, including asthma, hay fever, eczema and rash.

Sixty seven percents of children and teenagers had mental disorders, such as depression and increased anxiety, and also behavioral disorders, such as attention deficiency syndrome.

Researchers have noted that children who suffered from mental disorders twice more often had allergic reactions.

 
The idea is that children of the smoking mothers have problems to keep on their family. The theory, certainly, is supported by a number of experiments with mice, when during pregnancy they were injected the toxins contained in the cigarette smoke. It has led to ovary dysfunction at their female posterity.

In this connection scientists once again pay attention of the future mothers that influence of a smoke on a fetus even at the very early stages can be dangerous. And smoking during pregnancy can result in many complications, including small weight of a newborn and premature birth.

As to sterility of the future posterity, researches have shown, that not only girls, but also boys are exposed to the risk as “due to” harmful habit mothers have the lowered level of the gene responsible for development of ovary.