Family Tips

An ideal order in the house can be harmful for the child, but it does not mean, that there should be chaos. Stereotypes, which are actively formed in a brain of the child, make him or her very sensitive to colors, forms, location in space.

Children perceive objects not separately, but in interrelation with each other. That in its turn promotes their development, therefore to us, adults, it is necessary to avoid drastic changes which can break child’s notion about stability and the order in the world.

Sometimes the kid starts to cry without rhyme or reason, loses appetite, and has high temperature. These symptoms can be reaction to changes of environment which the adult can not notice. In other words, any changes break child’s notion about the order. If these changes are unpleasant to the kid, he or she, naturally, reacts correspondingly.

Shop toys often aren’t popular among kids, as they have a little in common with the surrounding world. It is not enough for the child that the toy was beautiful or amusing. Perhaps, with the clockwork railway he will play longer, assembling and disassembling the rails, observing as the train goes.

Adults frequently have deformed representations about the values of this or that toy based on their own children’s impressions. The kid with curiosity studies subjects surrounding him and especially reacts to that, which gives him the «pleasure of achievement» and satisfies his need in creativity.

Books are not only for reading, and bricks are not only for construction.
With our limited imagination we, adults, believe that the book is only for reading and the bricks are only for building.

Books and bricks are usually the first toys of the child. Adults impose to the child their own representations how to play with them. If the child plays in his own way, it means the purpose is achieved irrespective of how he plays. Correcting him means preventing his creative development or even bereaving desire to play at all.

He can use the book as a tunnel, or to draw on it, or to tear it. It is better not to give books at all, than to insist, that he only read them. When an interest to reading appears, he will understand that the most interesting thing about books is reading.

It is boring for the child to play with a manufactured toy which can be used only one way. Whatever expensive the toy is, it has no value, if the child cannot do something with it by hands or use it according to his rich imagination.

Almost all parents have experienced it. The child doesn’t need many toys: he or she needs a few, but useful toys.

For the kid everything that he touches and sees is a game material. There is no special need at all to buy toys, and do not insist that he necessarily play how it “is supposed”.

The modeling, cutting of patterns from a paper and making paper figures develops creative abilities of the child.
Look around – and you will be surprise to see many simple toys which were used by centuries. It is clay, paper for cutting, color paper for making figures.

These materials have one general characteristic - they have not a certain form or assignment. In other words, they can give any form. For this reason they are the ideal toys for the child of early age when the intelligence develops very fast. He can do everything he wants with these materials. Let’s give clay and paper to the kid under one year. He $will touch them without any purpose, not intending to make something from them, but only studying them. But touching them, he already changes their form, and with surprise observes these changes. And it is already very valuable experience.

At this age the child will simply touch clay and paper more and more again, taking pleasure from this process. Subconsciously he starts to understand cause-and-effect relations between the action and its result.

Gradually he starts trying to put into shape clay and paper. These toys are easy for transforming into both simple and very complex things, depending on a stage of child’s development.

The child, who has started modeling at early age, essentially outstrips his colleagues in development of various skills. And the thing is not in early modeling, but modeling has early woken his intellectual and creative abilities. Sleight of hand and self-expression are the first, but not the only abilities got by the child due to modeling.

Theatre or role games is one of the best ways to develop children’s creativity. The question is about self-expression through movements and words, as against pencils or musical instruments. The most valuable in these games is an opportunity of direct and free self-expression in relations with other members of the group.

Physical exercises stimulate development of intelligence
The bad posture at walking is the result of insufficient physical training at a very young age.
Children start to go the earliest in eight months. If they are not trained the basic movements in this age, they will never do them correctly, and will never get other skills which basis is made by the same brain systems. In this sense early training in walking plays the same role, as early lessons of music or foreign language.

At a very young age the brain of the child does not develop separately from the body. Intellectual development goes in parallel with physical and sensory ones. For example, swimming develops not only muscles, but also reflexes.

Certainly, the child will grow, even if you simply feed him and care for him. But if you do not give him more, that set of innate abilities will remain undeveloped. Physical exercises are one of the main components of his development. They stimulate development of muscles, bones, internal organs and brain. It has been noticed, that the child who starts to go early, can be very clever. Probably, more intensive physical activity promotes development of his or her intelligence.

Train the left hand the same as the right one
The right and left hands were born simultaneously, and their anatomy is identical. Why they function differently? Apparently, because since the childhood there was different attitude to them.

Everyone can develop equally both the right and left hand if he will start to do it in the early childhood.

Before you will start to complain, that you do not have time drag with speed of your child, think about the use of walking.

All body is active in the process of walking. From 639 muscles of our body 400 participate in walking. In contrast to other physical exercises here relaxation alternates tension. There is a smooth movement without lost of the energy.

Not casually many writers says that they use walk to get new ideas. Most likely, walking stimulates thought process. We do not notice process of walking, consider it as something self-evident. But it is not like that. As shows the history with two girls, who lived in a wolf pack, the child would creep, if he is not taught correctly to go from early age.

Motor skills depend not only on heredity, but on early training. That is named inherent gift for sports, is actually result of the upbringing in sports environment.

For the child not the result of his activity, but the process is important. We, adults, want that each work has been finished. And in this we see main difference between work and entertainments.

The work, even the most simple, should be shown how to do it. The work frequently demands care and attention concentration which are not necessary in a game. Therefore participation of the child even in simple work about the house is very useful for the development of his intelligence and motor abilities. Strangely enough, but many parents overlook, that the child can weed a garden together with adults, water flowers, wash floors, and clean the house. This is easy for learning, and it has the most direct attitude to a daily routine life. Certainly, it is the easiest way to leave the child on his own. The child should not be taught how to play; it is much more difficult to teach him to perform simple works about the house. But those parents who “facilitate the lifeâ€? believing that “it is severe to force small children to work”, deprive the child.

Children, who have the senior brothers and sisters, lag behind in growth of their coevals, who are the only children in family. Such conclusions were made by the employees of the London University College on the basis of a long-term research, with participation of 14 thousand British families.

Scientists have all data about children’s medical examinations, reports on their growth and other parameters of development which were regularly updated within several years.

In opinion of the research’s author David Lowson, the most probable explanation of the revealed pattern is lack of means in large families and shortage of the parental attention. That fact is rather remarkable, that these factors keep the value even in such well provided countries as Great Britain, marks the scientist.

However, the slowed development of younger children in large families can have other reasons. For example, epidemiology and public health care expert from the Imperial college of London does not exclude, that the lowered abilities to growth of younger children can also be explained by mother’s state of health during the pregnancy.

Financed by USA National institute of ecological sciences and conducted by experts from University of California, large-scale research of air ecology effects on the development of a fetus included the detailed analysis of state of health of more than 2,5 thousand pregnant women. Physicians have concluded, that various atmospheric pollutants negatively influence an outcome of pregnancy and raise risks of a premature birth and infant mortality rate.

The reasons of premature birth can also be infectious diseases, mother’s hormonal imbalance, abnormal uterus’ structure, neck of uterus failure, strong nervous stresses. Most common signs: tensive pains in the bottom of abdomen, also with spasms, blood vaginal discharge.

It is dangerous for the infant first of all because after 28 weeks the fetus is more than 1 kg and is viable. However he is still too small and requires special incubator. So it is better for him, if such delivery will take place in the modern well equipped maternity ward with children’s reanimation.

The number of food dyes and flavoring additives widely used in the industry now can cause negative changes in behavior of children and teenagers. Such conclusions of the British governmental Agency on food standards are published by influential scientific magazine Lancet.

According to researches, the group of the additives used in drinks, cookies, sweets and ice-cream leads to children’s hyperactivity, fast fatiguability and impulsiveness.
It has been established, that dyes and other additives influence under 9 years. Earlier it was considered, that the age limit is 3 years.

Meanwhile the Agency has not dared to put restrictions on the given additives in the Great Britain, and has directed corresponding inquiry to Eurocommission. Experts do not exclude, that the number of additives will be forbidden in the EU in the nearest future.

The British scientists have appealed today to parents so that they regard attentively to the products eaten by their children, and also read the information on structure of each product.

British newspaper Daily Mail published the list of food additives which can cause hyperexcitability : E-122, E-102, E-104, E-124, E-129, E-211 and E-110.