Family Tips

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.

Europeans in the age from 16 to 24 years prefer Internet to the TV, informed representatives of the European interactive advertising association.

82 percents of the questioned spend on the Internet from five to seven days a week. Only 77% of respondents watch the TV that frequently. At that 48% have confessed that began to watch the TV less often because of the Internet.

On the average every questioned spend online for 11,9 hours a week. Most of all time for the Internet, 13,6 hours a week, spend young people in Italy. Young inhabitants of Netherlands spend online the least of all others. 

Over eighty percents of respondents have declared that cannot live at least without one kind of activity on the Internet. Every third cannot do without e-mail.

Over seven thousand people from ten European countries have been surveyed during the research.

After birth of the child young mother tries to build anew the life, to find balance among her “last” and “present”. This internal struggle takes first three - four years of child’s life, consider psychologists.

With the appearance of posterity in family happy young parents … actually do not feel any happiness! Such is the statement of the English scientists from Institute of social and economic researches. Within seven years, from 1996 to 2003, scientists studied behavior of 3856 married couples-parents, informs Reuters. It was found out, that birth of successors in no way raise men’s degree of satisfaction with their life. About 17 % of them have declared that the work brings them more happy minutes, than their own children.

What is the reason of that negative psychological influence of a small member of the family on the parents in the first years of life? “There is one assumption: perhaps, young mother tries to build anew the life in connection with birth of the child, to find balance between her “previous” and “present”, - reason psychologist Ellison But. - Apparently, this internal struggle took these first three - four years of child’s life”.

A doll should be mentioned separately. This toy is irreplaceable in household games (washing, cleaning, cooking, and going to bed). These games are popular among both boys and girls. It happens first of all because they daily observe parents doing these things and copy it in a game. For development of such games children should have toys-home appliances and things: crockery, small bath, scraps, phone, a handbag, a stroller, etc.
Children begin to play with a doll gradually, imitating the daddy or mum - partners on game. The last think out new plots for these games – the doll has dinner; the doll waits for visitors, etc. These games solve such important tasks, as familiarization with things, their properties and functions, development of speech.

For development of a theme and a plot parents can get appropriate sets of toys. Books and video-films of the same subject-matter will expand child’s idea about the outward things.

During bathing, walks, rest at a summer house the child needs appropriate toys. Toys for outdoor games are especially significant.

To fulfill child’s need in movement, it would be nice to have ninepins, grace, badminton or tennis rackets, quoits.

How many toys does he or she need for this purpose? A few, to tell the truth! The main thing, they should be various, they should awaken imagination, developed talents, induce to game and be pleasant to the child.

Usually parents, their friends and relatives like to give the child toys. Girls are loaded shower with dolls, boys with cars and pistols. Both boys and girls have teddy bears. To tell the truth, “tons” get dusty in boxes or on book shelves.
All boxes and cases are filled up with toys, but parents notice, that the kid doesn’t play with them.
What toys are necessary for high-grade development of your child and how much of them?

The children’s toy has appeared long ago. Some of them historians give 5 thousand years. But for sure toys existed 10 thousand years ago, and didn’t remain only because were made of a flimsy material - clay, straw, wood. Since the most ancient times the toy helped the child to adapt for a life of adults, developed qualities which will be useful in the further.

Boys with appreciable interest observe daddy’s actions connected to technical equipment, and then start to play with cars. They are bewitched with the railway with a steam locomotive, and carriages with toy animals.
This way the game and a toy helps in formation of positive emotions, an establishment of contacts between the child and the adult.

 
Australian physicians have suggested radical enough method to relieve an environment of excessive pollution. According to their offer, the Australian parents who have more than two children should be liable to lifelong tax.

The new idea has been made public by the professor of the State University of Western Australia Barry Walters. As he said, couples which would want to have more than two children should pay 5 thousand Australian dollars (€2991) for a birth of each “additional” off-spring and also to pay the annual tax for each child at a rate of 800 dollars (478 Eeros).

The money should be used to grow trees which can neutralize emission of carbonic gas in an atmosphere. Walters has also suggested giving “discount” to those couples, who use contraceptives or if one of partners was sterilized. 

Hotbed gases are a huge source of atmosphere’s pollution. And population of our quickly growing world is in many respects responsible for it, writes the professor.

Also there are chemical contraceptives: suppositories, gels, creams. And also combined - mechanical and chemical: thawing contraceptive cap, tampons. Their efficiency is not hundred-percent, and inconvenience is evident, as they should put just before having sex. One more unpleasant moment – possible side-effect, as burning pain from use of these means.

There are also great many hormonal contraceptives based on “suppression” of female hormones and subsequent processes, preventing fertilization.

Such contraceptives have essential lacks. Initially, these means took effect on the woman, making evident some men’s attributes. Now, with the development of science and technology, oral contraceptives do not have such side-effects, and even can correct some disturbances of menstrual cycle, salutarily influence skin and hair condition, but their taking exclude taking of some other medical preparations. Ability to fertilization is restored in 4 - 24 months, but more often in 9 months.

Very few people won’t agree that children - are fine. But there are cases when their birth is undesirable.
To kill unborn child – a big sin, therefore each sane, civilized person is obliged to take care of protection from undesirable pregnancy.
And it concerns not only women, but also men, considering that there is now great variety of contraceptive means.

There are so-called mechanical or barrier contraceptives which hinder penetration of spermatozoons: intrauterine contraception, condoms. The first start to function right after introduction and ability to become pregnant renews right after its removal, that is from the beginning of a new cycle, but they do not protect from Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and can increase duration of catamenia.

The second perfectly protect from illnesses, undesirable pregnancy, but many complain that cannot feel all charm of intimate relations.

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.

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.