Family Tips

The most comfort temperature for children in a room is determined by adults and equals approximately 18 - 23 C. However, if you are constantly afraid of colds, you should know the following:  

It is easier to not accustom kids to heat, than to train then. Children do not feel a cold at all as do we, the adults, already spoiled by our parents and grandparents.

The child at a birth is a more perfect organism; he or she knows better than adults when it is hot and when it is cold.

We more often meet kids who complain of heat. 

The child can catch cold once from a cold if the temperature is very unusual for him, but it won’t happen for the second time. Children are ill because of our ecology, bad food, or congenital weak immunity, but not because they freeze: provided that there is a central heating in your apartment, instead of 5 C below zero.

Since 2010 Russia turns to the international standards of perinatal medicine. Doctors will start to struggle for a life of babies whose weight makes only 500 g. Before such kids had no chance: it was fixed as miscarriage. An experiment on nursing of the smallest will be launched in two regions of the country the next year. To tell the truth, experts prophesy a failure.

In the Western Europe prematurely born kids weighting 500-600 g were rescued in the middle 90s. In Russia doctors tried to help only to kilogram babies. Absence of the equipment and desire prevented rescue of smaller kids. Children who have been given birth with underweight, were not registered, and were fixed as an abortive material. It allowed the country to support rather low parameters of infantile death rate. In Russia it made 11 %, in Europe - 9-13 %.

On the wave of general demographic campaign Ministry of Health’s officials have decided to change the situation. For this purpose it is planned to buy the necessary equipment and medicines. Doctors of Novosibirsk and Irkutsk regions will work in accordance with the international standards the first.

Do not give the child too wide choice concerning the food. It’s better to say - here is today’s supper. And your child will choose from those products which you have prepared.

When you offer new products, do not offer too much at once. In the beginning offer a little – just to taste. After you have understood that your kid liked it, offer the same food the next day.

Do not forget, there are no identical people and tastes. One likes this, another - that. There are no multi-purpose recipes. Some children do not like the certain food only because they ate it last time when were ill.

Whenever it is possible, give your kid the right to choose food independently. Remember, that children, as well as adults, can make their choice.

When your kid goes to a kindergarten or school, he or she will try other new for him products. It will expand his or her food horizon.

First of all, do not panic, if it seems to you, that your child grows insufficiently quickly. Children grow jerky. You have already seen it. Still yesterday he or she was little one, and today it seems to you, that you child has already become absolutely adult. If it seems to you, that the child grows insufficiently quickly, you’d better go to your children’s doctor.

Simply suggest him or her various foods, and you will see, that the child will choose what is necessary for an organism. Recent researches of the American Dietary Association have shown that in spite of the fact that 49% of mothers are worried that their children are hard to be pleased in meal, their children receive enough useful substances during a meal.

Provide various and diverse food for your child. Remember, that the more often you offer the child different products, the higher is probability, that your child will start to eat various products.

The feeding mothers refusing animal food can cause serious harm to intellectual development of the child. American doctors from the Centers of diseases control and preventive maintenance have told in the weekly edition about two cases of development disorder. It has been connected to deficiency of vitamin B12.

The main sources of this substance necessary for development of a brain are products of animal origin, such as meat, eggs and dairy products. Nursing mother provides the child with all vitamins, only if she herself consumes all nutrients or takes corresponding vitamin complexes.

In two cases told by doctor Maria Elena Jefferds, mothers refused all animal products. In 15-month’s age doctors have revealed growth inhibition and development delay. It was found out, that the mother, who was vegetarian within several years, fed the child with breast milk for eight months.

At the same time on pages of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report doctor Jefferds has noticed, that vegetarians, certainly, should continue breast feeding but keep up sufficient level of necessary for the child substances.

American scientists have proved that women with the bigger difference between the size of a waist and hips are more intelligent and give birth to children with higher intellectual faculties.

Researchers from the Californian University in Santa Barbara and University of Pittsburgh have found out that women’s hips contain fat acids omega-3 which promotes development of mother’s brain and also the child during pregnancy.

“Round hips contain the important nutrients which promote development of a brain and help to give birth to clever children”, - has explained one of researchers, Stephen Galin from University of Santa Barbara.

“Men subconsciously pay attention to pneumatic forms as it is important for reproduction. Now we know biochemical hidden motive of such popularity”, - has noted William Lassek from University of Pittsburgh, informs Daily Telegraph.

American psychologists have put a task to find out under what circumstances a dog can bite the child. It is known, that the dog treats the kid as a younger member of a troop, a cub, which needs to be cared of. And all the same, there are still some accidents, sometimes with grave consequences.

For 4 years psychologists have analyzed 111 cases when children were assailed by their own dogs. Three quarters of incidents have taken place because the dog has been unexpectedly frightened during a game, or has heard a sudden noise, or a clap of a petard. Sometimes four-footed friends do not bear attempts to take off their titbit. And some from the dogs, had serious diseases, and have reacted with a bite to an attempt of the kid to touch a sore spot.

The conclusion arises by itself: for the sake of own safety the child should be taught from the earliest age that a dog, as well as the person, can become aggressive “because of nerves”.

 
Kids should sleep 10 hours the least 

Day regimen should not vary strongly regardless of that fact, goes the child to school or not. If he or she wants to sleep – let it be so. Sleep deficit should be filled: especially when the matter concerns senior pupils. The child will have enough of sleep for day or two, and then should return to a usual regimen. Remember, that kids should sleep not less than 10 hours a day, the senior schoolchildren - not less than 8 hours.

If the weather and a free time allow, go to a park. It is desirable to go in for any active games. Activity should be alternated. For example, go to theatre, and the next day to any exhibition. But do not be over-diligent! It is very useful sometimes to stay at home and read any interesting book.

Try to walk more
Kids should spend outdoors 3 - 3,5 hours a day, senior pupils – up to 2 hours.

Let your kids have a rest. They have passed the complex period of school adaptation. Both younger schoolchildren and senior pupils get tired of lessons. Therefore let the child to forget about study during vacation and use a free time for the hobbies.

Scientists from the London Institute of Psychiatry informed results of the research about influence of breast feeding on development of children: breast feeding raises IQ (by seven points).

During the research scientists used the data of breast feeding influence on development of about 3 thousand children in the Great Britain and New Zealand. It appeared, that not all newborns have increased IQ level, but only those babies who had FADS2 gene type, which associates with intellectual development.

Experts from British National Academy of Sciences believe, that revealed in one group of children gene helps to split contained in food fat acids, which influence development of a brain.

Also during the research scientists didn’t manage to determine precisely readiness for breast feeding at mothers from different social groups, though there was an assumption that women with higher education are more inclined to nurse kids.

The group of scientists from the Royal Children’s Hospital in Belfast has declared that the kids, born in the way of cesarean section, much more often fall ill with asthma, than children who were born in the natural way.

Results of the researches show, a birth of the child by cesarean section raises risk of asthma development about 20 %.

It is explained by child’s contacts to bacteria in mother’s maternal passages, and subsequent training of the immune system.

And the child who was born by cesarean section, run the risk of immune system sensitizing to influence of harmless irritants, such, as pollen or house dust.