Children Health Care
How to help your child fight anxiety?
One of the most difficult to control emotion is anxiety. When something we do not like and can not accept the case, we care, we become anxious, can not sleep and developed many uncertainties that ultimately affect our body with digestive disorders and a great discouragement. Children also suffer from anxiety, for example, if a classmate’s annoying, if a teacher treats them sharply, if there are conflicts in the home, etc., Affecting their behavior and happiness unless they learn to deal with those emotions.
Teach a man to face
As parents tend to overprotect our children. If you are afraid of the darkness with the light left on all night, or if you are afraid of a hard test at school, let them not attending. But fear is not due so, because the next day or within a short time the same situation happen sooner or later have to face.
Therefore, it is best that you teach your child to confront situations and rewards when you do, so learn to deal with their anxiety decreases your concerns.
Teach what is anxiety
We see people stressed out, panic attacks, very emotional on all sides, and often do not think the degree of anxiety they must have to behave like that, or what you could achieve if they knew handle. Do not want our children to live their adult lives forward, so we can teach them to face life explaining what is anxiety and showing them a rating scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the maximum degree of nervousness.
Your child can tell you what level of anxiety when something is scary, so teach him that anxiety can be controlled by focusing on breathing or thinking about something else, what can be measured by the score often .
Reward it
Reward your child when you reach the self, which encouraged him to do it again. To see that it is able to overcome difficult situations and feel your support, (not as a victim but as an actor to overcome difficulties), you can go to develop better each time. Tell him he’s capable, by itself can overcome your fears and you can feel much safer.
Passing is the key
You must teach your child that is normal to feel fear and anxiety, we all do, but the question is to control situations and move forward, and not remain only in the sense of fear. Stay beside your child while he gets out of his fear, show that you are accompanying, but does not solve everything. So you’ll help a lot in his emotional education for the future.
If your child becomes anxious when you get away from him, do not stop reading this article , where we give you some tips to reduce separation anxiety .
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Ideas for children’s parties banquet
Is your child’s birthday? Want to make a special celebration, but do not know what to do? Do you have to organize the celebration of the school year? Many times we want to give it a nice party for children, but do not know what foods to offer or what activities to do, so that Represented show you some ideas for children’s parties banquets .
Options
If you want a feast for children have several options. Depending on the occasion, you can make a dinner buffet where you can choose between different options of food and serve them quickly, and can be an outdoor activity, or something more formal. Consider these options in more detail:
Children’s room buffet. A menu can include turkey hot dogs, for example, lean hamburger, or whole grain breads. You can also offer hot macaroni and cheese and a fruit dessert with raspberry sauce or chocolate. You can put biscuits, milk and cups of gelatin with fruit. They can also serve a cake to end the celebration. A natural drink can be a great alternative, rich and nutritious.
More formal banquet. This menu would include foods that are generally well accepted by children, such as meat, a starch (like rice) and vegetables, along with a dessert. You can make a lettuce salad with carrots, a main course of steak breaded baked chicken, mashed potatoes or rice, whole wheat rolls baked apple dessert.
Outdoor classrooms for children. For a more informal, like a meeting of sports teams with their families, can bring meat to make it on the grill. You can prepare a macaroni salad with cheese and diced potato salad. You can also make tacos, which are easy to prepare and you can have salads and many ingredients to add to them. Desserts and drinks can be in great variety, like a watermelon, ice cream, tea, water, lemonade or diet sodas to choose from.
Some considerations
It is important that you consult with parents if a child is allergic to a food to be offered. It is also very necessary to maintain good standards of safety in any situation where there are many children, because hazards may be close, so if you do a party with outdoor pool or especially have to be careful and keep a suitable number of agents to observe the children constantly.
You must not forget the fun activities, and that children are not interested in food as much as playing, so having a schedule of games that children can make the better. They can play “musical chairs”, or a typical game, or even children can rent some games to put them in the classroom.
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Tips for teaching hygiene to children
Parents often face problems in getting their children to meet the hygiene properly. It sounds familiar to the child who emerges from the bathroom in seconds with dry brush saying that he washed his little teeth. Today we will see some recommendations for developing these skills and teach the need to take proper care of personal hygiene.
Brushing your teeth
It is important to start this habit very early age. Even when the child is still a baby should take a cloth to clean the oral cavity and when the first tooth should add a soft brush. To the extent that the child grows encourage you to brush after every meal and before bed independently. If from the beginning you do a routine, later you will not fight with reluctance.
Bath Time
As it is with tooth brushing, the base of the habit of bathing is to create a routine. The bathroom is not a chain to humans, is a response to the dirt. That means that children should bathe when dirty. Excessive cleaning can also lead to dry skin and to problems of irritability.
A daily routine bathing is more than enough, especially in those children who play sports. The important thing is to teach the sequence of the bath, which should be in descending order. The three main steps include: washing your hair, wash face and then the body. If you perform this routine since they are small and the bath, they will repeat it to grow.
Hand washing
This is one of the most important hygiene habits, especially in cold and flu season. Be cultivated soon, since the children are toddlers. We teach that before taking any food should wash their hands, and when they return from school, walk or other outings.
Another option to wash their hands while on the road, are the instant hand sanitizers are available in the markets. It is only necessary to warn children that the liquid must be dried before touching anything.
If you hold a teaching job daily hygiene habits since the children are young people prepare to be neat and healthy throughout life.
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Stress: adult thing?
Is stress thing for adults only? Well … not at all. It is true that the word stress is generally related to adults, but is not a problem for them. In fact, children can also fall victim to it.
Stress can manifest itself in children aged 6 years, just when they enter school. In that case, the stress arises as a manifestation of a problem of adaptation, in children who fail to adapt to this great change in their lives.
Consider that for the child, admission to college is the first change of environment facing for a child and this is a very radical change: change of environment, the classes become less personalized, there are greater responsibilities, parents expect more of their children, children themselves are more demanding self, among other things.
However, few preschoolers who suffer from stress. But those few are children who can not adapt to change and begin to reflect on their behavior. One of the most perceivable is poor school performance, from which many parents opt to strengthen extracurricular activities (math, English, language, etc.). And therefore generate even more pressure on the child, starting a vicious circle difficult to detect.
Stress in children can be generated by multiple causes, all related to events that create distress when not afford or too important a child’s self-imposed for:
Accomplish tasks
Getting good grades so as not to disappoint their parents
The stress of exam week
Pressure to keep up with classroom studies
Having parents who demand a lot from their children, who always want to be the first class.
Change a child’s life: the death of a family member or pet, moving, divorce of parents, etc..
Therefore, not all children with poor school extracurricular need a reinforcement. It all depends on what are the causes of these low yields. When the cause is stress, the reinforcement can be counterproductive.
But how can we tell when a child has stress? For we know what are the symptoms of the picture. These are:
• Discomfort: stomach, headache
• Sleep problems: insomnia, nightmares
• Decreased appetite, changes in eating habits
• Anxiety, worries, fears
• Aggressive behavior, regressive behavior
• Sudden changes of mood
• Sadness
• New or recurring fears
• Poor school performance
To tempt, if you notice your child has several of these symptoms and you sense that this stress, it is best to try to talk with him, seeking to share with you the things that concern you. If you do not have good communication with him, try talking with peers or their teachers for help.
For children cope with stress is not only easy, however it has become extremely difficult. However, with the help of family, you can overcome the problem even faster than an adult.
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Tantrums 2 years
Tantrums, as usual, are a symptom of growth. That is, are the result of frustration your child feels about an inability to complete an activity, as expressed, do a chore by itself or when you want something. Not that it can be enforced, because motors are not developed, produced a tantrum.
So moms, not to worry, but know a little more.
During the 2 years, and we can say that up to 4 years is normal tantrums our children appreciate wanting to achieve something. The first thing is to keep your emotions under control and not angry, but understand your frustration. Better not look him in the eyes and let it pass, to notice your disapproval of their behavior. And then explain to
peace and love, the best way to express their feelings or get what you want without anger.
But when tantrums occur in public can get in bother or embarrassment, but there is nothing further from reality. Temper tantrums are normal, there is nothing to blush for it. When this happens, take your child to a quiet place and hold him until he stops the tantrum and explain why he was not given what he wanted. And most important, is not to yield to their whims.
Preventing Tantrums. Temper tantrums can be caused by hunger, fatigue, boredom or because you feel overwhelmed. Try to anticipate these states to avoid reaching a point of stress for you or your child.
And of course, discipline is the main factor to avoid tantrums. Try to teach the difference between good and evil, through options, and avoid asking questions open or do anything to give their whims, dialogue and negotiations with your children.
With these tips certainly succeeded in changing the understanding of your child’s tantrums and you get a better position to its attitudes and so create a closer bond with greater compression.
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Relaxation Music for Children
At present there are many different stimuli, which often makes both children and adults we ‘let’s screw’, I propose to relax, watch some relaxing music options for children.
In the market there are available a wide variety of music CDs designed for younger children can relax, Baby Music Deli is one of them is a collection of instrumental music that reinterprets a selection of hits from bands like The Beatles or Police, composers classics such as Mozart and Bach to stimulate and relax the children adapted to their needs for rest. Can be purchased by clicking here.
Another option is to go to the inexhaustible source of resources is the internet, thinking I wanted some options in the relaxation of the children, then I leave so they can implement them.
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Hygiene to children
Like any healthy habit, it is important that children learn health habits from a young age to care for your health. Personal hygiene is essential not only to stay healthy and improve our quality of life but a way of respecting those around us. Who likes to be around someone dirty and smelly? Nobody!
Basic things such as washing hands with soap before going out to eat or clothes changing habits often are younger need to learn. For these reasons, we teach hygiene to children.
Hands. An essential hygiene practice is that most kids learn to wash their hands when they come home and before eating. Also if you have been playing outside and of course if you have played dirty toys.
Perspiration. While body odor sweating begins at puberty, children also sweat. It is therefore important to maintain the hygiene of your body using deodorant, but mostly through the bath.
Clothing. If children sweat, then your clothes will be marked by the sweat. Obviously, the clothes get dirty too frequent use, so take care that children change their clothes. Especially with the underwear, when in contact with skin, contains dead cells. If children live in an environment with smokers should wash clothes more often, as the cigarette smoke and is impregnated in them.
Shoes. Also the feet sweat and give off an unpleasant odor of sweat from contact with wet cloth. If children wear shoes in school uniform, try to remove them and the fans when they come home. Try to vary your shoes. Another important aspect of hygiene is to keep your feet clean and polished shoes, look better, last longer and become less likely to smell.
Ft. It is essential that cleans your feet at least once a day, and the dry properly to prevent bacteria buildup. If you go to the pool club, it is essential to wear sandals to avoid a yeast infection.
Cabello. The scalp has sweat glands. If you do not wash it every day or almost every day, sweating and builds oil and dead skin cells. Greasy hair is not only unsightly but also a visible sign of poor hygiene. To have healthy hair, try to wash the children with good head massaging shampoo and rinse with clean water. For girls with long hair, also use conditioner to help get the hair smooth and tangle free.
Teeth. Oral hygiene is achieved by brushing their teeth after every meal. Since the little ones love the candy, it is important to teach the habit of caring for their teeth.
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How should I take my baby’s temperature?
The most advisable to take the temperature of a baby is doing from the rectum or armpit, as these are areas that will give more accurate information. It is advisable to take your temperature orally to your baby because it is difficult to keep the thermometer under your tongue. Here are the steps you must follow to obtain reliable information about the temperature of your baby:
Mercury Thermometer
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Six steps to prevent colds
During the first years of life children are more prone to viral diseases do not usually cause any problems in the small, cold, and others.
This happens because your immune system is not yet finished developing completely.
I wish we had a magic recipe for the first years of life are not coming and going of coughs, runny nose and so forth.
The reason for this is simple: at this age, play all, suck it all and fill up all the saliva.
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Vision and Hearing Test in Children
Vision and hearing
Consideration should be given before your child begins to attend school, when you have about 3 or 4 years old. Also you may need to be screened from view as it grows. Some experts recommend that hearing tests be made from the 3 or 4 years old.
If at any age your child has any of the warning signs of problems with vision or hearing, which are presented below, talk with your healthcare provider about it.
Symptoms of vision problems
_____ Eyes deviate inward (crossed) or outward.
_____ Strabismus (frowned when he tries to do something).
Headaches _____.
_____ Not play as well in school.
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