Family Tips

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.

Crisis of traditional family in the Western Europe leads to the situation when more and more children face a problem of adaptation in family after remarriage of one of the parents.

In France 4,3 million children either live with one of the parents, or with the stepfather or the stepmother after remarriage of parents.
One of the most difficult tasks is to handle with children of the stepmother or the stepfather. The problem is that most divorces happen when children on the average are about 4 years old. Remarriages took place some years later and, thus, children get used to a life with one parent. To build relations after that at once with several new members of a family is uneasy.

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.

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.

 
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.