Archive for April, 2011
In a child’s education an important factor is the parents’ expertise for the “job”. No one is born holding all the knowledge, but we can learn and understand things from books or take the advice of qualified persons.
Amongst the commandments a parent should strictly follow are the following:
1. Do not underestimate your child – he can understand more than you think he does and if you make him believe you think poorly of him this might affect his development.
2. Don’t use threats – a child loves a challenge and once threatened he might go on and do what he wasn’t suppose to just to see if he can escape the punishment.
3. Do not bribe your child – if you are trying to get him to learn for money, for example, he will fail to understand the importance of learning, all he will get from this is the importance of money.
4. Do not make a small child promise something – small children can’t hold promises so don’t force them to lie and then punish them because they did that.
5. Do not keep them under a short leash – to grow up normally children need some space, some freedom.
6. Do not use big words or too many words when you are talking to your child – keep your ideas simple and concise so he can understand every thing you have to say.
7. Do not expect an immediate and blind obedience – it is not recommended, the child has to learn to think for himself, not to follow orders.
8. Do not indulge him too much – he can develop compartmental disorders.
9. Do not compromise when it comes to the rules of a game – the trick for a game to be educational is to have its initial rules respected.
10. Don’t impose rules that don’t go with the age of your child.
11. Do not try to inflict guilt – guilt is not an appropriate feeling for children, especially if they are little.
12. Don’t give your child orders that you don’t take seriously – your child will try to please you and giving him an order is drastic. It becomes cruel if that order is a joke.
All these “commandments” are addressed first to the parent. But they need to be referred to by teachers and educators as well. Along with the parents, they will settle upon an attitude and strategy for the education and growth of the child, so that they can give him all the things he needs to properly develop emotionally and physically.
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Kids’ health is one of the major problems faced by almost all parents around the world. In most part of the western countries, obesity and over weight problem is causing serious worries to the parents and as well as to the government. Both these problems needs to be controlled at early stages of life; so that future of your kids will be safe and secure from various diseases.
Due to various types of junk foods, such as bakery products, fast food and oily stuffs, health of your child is affected. These unhealthy foodstuffs lead to lack of concentration in school and other learning aspects of social skills. So proper attention towards the health of your kid is needs to be provided by parents and healthy food with sufficient calories must be monitored along with regular exercises and daily workouts. Here are some of the guidelines that will help parents to look after their kids properly.
Carry out regular check up of your kid from family doctor and provide healthy diet to the kid as prescribed by the doctor.
Motivate kids for regular and simple exercises such as walking, daily warm up and if possible swimming.
Most of the parents do not get time to look after their kids and normally kids are on the mercy of the maidservants. This should not happen and regular attention must be provided to the kids so that they are well nourished.Due to various facilities of entertainments such as television, computers, movies and various cartoon channels, normally kids don’t get sufficient time to carry out exercises. Thus, yoga is another alternative that can help in reducing extra weight along with improving strength and body coordination.
Avoid providing junk foods, bakery products, chocolates, oily foodstuffs and unhealthy food to the kids. Balanced diet is must be provided to the kids to get rid of avoidable diseases such as obesity and overweight disorders. Healthy eating habits help kids in physical and mental development. So fix proper timing of meals and restrict untimely snacks and various foodstuffs that are of low calorie.
At least once in a day, have meals with kids and tell them the benefits of balanced healthy diet and advice them to stay away from junk food. In most of the cases, it is found that kids follow the habits of parents so it is better that parents should first change their unhealthy eating habits and carry out regular exercises along with kids. This will help kids as well as parents to look after their own health and in turn eliminate chances of obesity and overweight.
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