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Some Factors of Smart Growth Fetus

15 Feb 2012 by
Smart Growth Fetus

Smart Growth Fetus

Some Factors of Smart Growth Fetus. Everyone will want to have an intelligent child. The important thing is your child gets good stimulation from the still in the womb. There are several factors that affect the level of intelligence of children, among others:

1. genetic
One factor that determines the intelligence of the fetus is a genetic parent. Parents who are smart will usually have a bright child, because a genetic contribution to most of the influence of fetal intelligence.

2. nutritional adequacy
Another influential factor is adequate nutrition during pregnancy. Parental awareness of the importance of adequate nutrition greatly affects the brain development of children, and make children smarter. Intake is very influential for children’s intelligence is folic acid, omega-3, and various other vitamins. Nutritional requirements can be obtained from foods such as nuts, fruits, and vegetables. This intake is needed, especially in the first trimester, because at this point that the child’s brain development occurs. Unfortunately, despite many of these healthy eating, sometimes the mother is still lack of vitamins and minerals needed. This is due to the destruction of nutrients is due to errors in processing food. As an alternative, pregnant women should take supplements containing DHA and AHA.

3. stimulation of music
Many believe, music can help stimulate the child’s intelligence. You do not have to limit yourself by listening to classical music only. All types of music it can be used to stimulate the intelligence of children, and can be done from 24 weeks gestation. Stimulation of music can make children have a better memory as adults.

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Stimulate Infants 3-6 Months

04 Feb 2012 by
Infants 3-6 Months

Infants 3-6 Months

In infancy, most of the stimulation provided to enhance motor skills, both rough and smooth, because the baby is actively jealous improve motor skills. The more frequent motor skills are stimulated, the muscle development will be more mature. Even so, the stimulation can still provide a double benefit. When parents train motor skills of children, then other skills such as language, cognitive, and others will participate honed.

Importantly, the stimulation should be given to adjust the baby‘s age and ability. Different age different stimulation. At the age of 3-6 months the baby’s ability, the better. He could lift his head, grab objects, and others.

Tools and ways to play:
* Mirror. Use the mirror in the closet, wall, or a small mirror that can be held. Hold your baby in front of the mirror, he would be pleased. Let him fumble the mirror. As he looked in the mirror, point one at a part of his face, head, eyes, mouth, nose, and so on. This stimulation has a number of benefits, including learning to recognize themselves and some parts of his body and hone emotional skills. Babies learn about the emotions and expressions, such as different expression when he laughed as he scowled. Perhaps he will also winked, pursed mouth, widen the eyelids, and another that makes it better understand the expression on his face.

* Plastic or paper. Squeeze the plastic or newspaper, but not to clot. Then, ask your child participate squeezed. The voice that comes out when a plastic or paper crumpled newspaper will arouse curiosity baby. Not only the hands, soles of the feet touch the we can provide. The benefits of this is to train stimulation of the sensory capabilities of plastic and paper texture. Sensitivity of the baby’s feet will be honed as a capital to learn to walk.

* Toys or interesting objects. Show a different toy or baby’s attention, then place your hands reach as far as the toy baby. Let the baby try to get a toy or object. Benefits, improve fine motor skills and stimulate the sensory capabilities when objects that use various different colors and contours.

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Stimulation for Infants 0-3 Months

01 Feb 2012 by
Infants 0-3 Months

Infants 0-3 Months

Babies need stimulation to the nerve tissue of the brain is growing and connected so that it is faster to understand and process information. Conversely, the absence of stimulation will create a network of nerve cells that die. As a result, a variety of potential intelligence of children will participate buried.

At age 0-3 months, babies motor skills were not functioning optimally. So that the stimulation provided more towards enriching the knowledge of basic concepts, such as the introduction of color, shape, sensory, focus, attention, voice, and the ability to differentiate.

Tools and how to play
* Puppets of different colors. Provide a colorful little balls, mother-father can make your own from old socks rolled up. Move the ball from side to side on the baby, so she can see it. Babies will try to recognize shapes and colors. Also touch the ball into his hands to stimulate the senses.
Benefits: Stimulates the senses of sight, recognize different colors, and train the ability to focus on the baby.

* Toys hanging. Hanging toy is a toy can be hung above the crib. We can make it yourself or buy ready-made toy. If you want to create your own, can with a rope stretched over the cribs, toys and hanging just above the baby‘s face. We recommend that the shape and color vary so baby can tell the difference.
Benefits:
- Stimulate the baby to know a variety of shapes, images, and colors.
- If he is trying to reach the toy, then go stimulated their fine motor skills.
- Introduce the vocabulary and then we explain one by one the name of the stuffed animal. His knowledge was increased.

* Toys rang. Rattle could be an option. Kitchen appliances that emit a sound like that pitted two spoons, glasses are hit with a spoon, even clapping, so can you. Ring a toy or a tool in front of the baby, then move slowly from side to side and up and down to stimulate the baby to follow.
Benefits:
- Allowing the sense of hearing ability.
- Practice fine motor if the baby is trying to reach.
- Allowing the baby’s gross motor skills by moving the neck.
- Introduce the vocabulary, if we do while singing.

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How To Make Your Child not to be a Bad-Tempered Child

27 Jan 2012 by
grumpy child

grumpy child

How To Make Your Child not to be a Bad-Tempered Child. Every parent will want to educate children as well as possible, but often the rules that they employ to make the children feel constrained and misinterpret the rule. Not infrequently it makes the children become irritable, and end up being bad-tempered child. To be grumpy attitude is not sustainable into adulthood, parents should help children to be free from excessive anger. Consider three ways of child development theory, so you can do to make your child does not become a bad-tempered.

Open in anger
Since she was a toddler, children are often persuaded to deny feelings of anger. Phrases such as “Do not be angry” gives a message to the toddler that anger is bad and wrong. When in fact anger is not always bad. Curb your anger will make them perform actions that are not good and just rebelled when adults. Instead of banning children to express anger, it’s better if you show empathy when dealing with children’s anger. Convey that anger is not really a problem, which is important how to control emotions more effectively.

Express with words and writing
Appropriate emotional intelligence, and self-control, can be expressed by placing the feelings in words. You can help children to overcome anger by consistently encouraging them to share what makes them angry. Maybe just by making a list of the most common that can trigger anger. Pour through the words on the list, anything that can make them angry. Then compare between your list and the list of children, to get a common understanding of how to control anger.

Ready to accept the anger
The final key to helping children to accept and manage anger well is by being willing to accept the child’s anger. As a parent, it must be difficult to be in this position, especially when you feel in the right position. However, when you are willing to accept the child’s anger, it will send a strong message that their complaints heard, and their feelings noticed by parents. After the child’s anger subsides, you can advise the child gently, so that the children want to listen to parental advice, and regretting its own guilt. It’s much better than when you argue and scold children behind when they’re emotional. This will send a negative signal to children that their parents do not understand their feelings, or even feel unloved.

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Educating Children to have The Confidence and “Always Can Do”

20 Jan 2012 by
educating children

educating children

One of the objectives to be achieved the parents must have a child with an all-round ability and self-reliant. However, one of the requirements to have a child who is confident and can do many positive things is the presence of the child’s confidence and willingness to be able to do anything. Then how to educate children in order to have the confidence and “always can do“?

1. Discover the unique abilities of children
There are many opportunities to help children discover their talents and abilities. Supports fully the ability and the talent they have. Perhaps this may seem simple, but powerful proven able to help children be more confident and able to develop their talents. The more the children are able to recognize their unique abilities, the higher the confidence they have.

2. Appreciation of the achievements and results of their hard work
Nothing can arouse confidence compared with an award or a celebration of children’s achievement. Appreciate every effort and achievement of children, no matter how small it is. This book could be invaluable memories of children’s achievement, that he was capable of doing many things well. If children can not read, use pictures and paste in your journal. This activity will help the child to track his success, and develop a desire to keep moving forward and succeed.

3. Focus on actions, not appearance
Help the children to focus more on action and other positive activities that can be done rather than just show appearances. Be a role model by discussing your goals and desires to it, and share your pride for each of their achievements. By talking about the achievement and not focus on appearance, you are helping children to develop personal confidence for his accomplishments and abilities.

4. Praise the child with specific statement
Everyone loves a compliment, not to mention the children. But keep in mind that not every small compliment can improve self-esteem of the child. You certainly would not want the child to be someone who is hungry for praise. Express praise to build self-esteem. Praise the child when he really showed his talent with both, and also use the word “because” in your praise so that it becomes more specific. Praise the expertise of the same child for several weeks when they are really doing a good thing. This causes the child to believe in the “message” and adopted it to form a new confidence about her abilities.

5. Highlight the positive side 
Powerful way to help children develop a stronger self confidence is to teach positive self-talk. It never hurts to slightly accentuate yourself without meaning to brag. Give the children some examples of positive actions you are proud of and then admit the act in front of children.

6. Paste the motivational slogans
Negative thoughts can easily turn off the child’s confidence and abilities. Nothing wrong to instill positive thoughts and slogan in everyday life. This simple but effective way to encourage children to think more positive about themselves.

7. Avoid always help them solve the problem
No parents want their children to be disappointed, and this often makes parents trying to help solve various problems of children. However, be careful as this could actually make a child become independent and not always depend on you. Instead, take steps to help them only when absolutely necessary.

8. Help your child learn from mistakes
Each person must often make mistakes, and you definitely need a chance to fix it. Similarly with the child. When they make mistakes, you should not judge them, but help them to learn from his mistakes. After that, help them to achieve their goals.

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Hypnoparenting for Children

13 Jan 2012 by
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hypnoparenting

Hypnoparenting techniques, consciously or not, is actually not a new method. Your parents may have already put it into practice. Care for and educate children with love is the basis of the technique hypnoparenting. Positive words this is what affects the child development, even to overcome the difficulties faced by parents when caring for children. It is the duty and responsibility of parents to give positive suggestions to the child using this hypnoparenting technique.

Various problems faced by parents when caring for children can be resolved with hypnoparenting. Children who have trouble sleeping can be overcome by the method of hypnosis is practiced his parents. The mechanism by giving a signal in the subconscious. Say positive suggestion repeatedly, because hypnosis is repetition. Easy to implement methods of hypnosis anyone and for all layers. Positive suggestion is a form of parent-child communication. No matter how small children must get used to communicating. Do not educate children to be manipulative. If the child whines and parents responded by giving what was asked, this will become a habit for him.

Hypnoparenting as parenting techniques work directly on the unconscious child. Parents can apply parenting, including disciplining children easily without coercion. What happens when parents use hypnoparenting technique is mentally communication through the unconscious child.

  • affirmative sentences given when the child is in a relaxed condition.
  • Actions and behavior of young children is still very much influenced by his subconscious. That is why, he is so innocent and spontaneous, and easily given the suggestion by his parents.
  • Minds are like sponges that children under five is very easy to absorb anything that sounds, looks and feels.
  • Parents implant suggestions through the sentences affirmation as required child, directly to the unconscious according to these suggestions.

Preparation of parents:

  • Understand the nature and habits of their children, so it does not make suggestions that are contrary to the nature of toddlers.
  • Can select the words that will be spoken. Focus on the positive words and avoid negative words like ‘naughty’, “hard”, “noisy”, and so on.
  • Capable of introspecting themselves and give a good example for children.
  • aware of the basic concepts of Hypnoparenting. Avoid actions are not whole-heartedly or not willing.
  • Working closely with the child about how to apply hypnopareting to be consistent.
  • Everyone has faults. Parents should realize that not always blame the child.
  • Remember, that to speak is the language of the mind. Children of parents do not care to speak in any language, but when a parent has intended purpose of his mind, that’s what caught. The fetus can follow the words of his mother, although her mother talking to myself, silently.

Steps:

  • Parents should be calm and relaxed.
  • Find the best time to plant the suggestion in children, when a toddler in a state of relaxed and focused.
  • Use a supporting medium for planting suggestions (if needed), for example voice soothing music, soft voices mother and father, ticking clock sound, and so on.
  • Perform a soft body contact, repetitive and monotonous (can be done while he was asleep), such as wiping a toddler’s head or forehead, rubbed his back gently.
  • Start talking with the intention of instilling a positive suggestion, use positive affirmations.
  • Perform repetitions consistently, mothers and fathers do the same thing over and over again, until you see the expected results.

Avoid:

  • Allowing a toddler falls asleep in front of the TV or other media that life, especially if the media has a negative effect. Children will enter alpha state while falling asleep, so what is it with the outside can be automatically programmed in the subconscious.
  • Arguing or negative sentences catapult each other in front of children because it can be embedded in the unconscious soul of the child, and possibly result in health.
  • Violence against children, because he will be easily reprogrammed the violence in his subconscious soul.
  • Using negative words.
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Avoid the Danger of Stress in Children

08 Jan 2012 by
stress on children

stress on children

Avoid the Danger of Stress in Children. Various adverse events experienced in childhood will always pictured it to adulthood. If a child has a deep memory of an unpleasant childhood, their brain will respond to it and record it, so that as adults they will be more sensitive to stress. When ever experience stress, the brain child will be programmed to react more strongly to deal with this stress, and this will make people tend to experience greater stress than people who do not have a history of stress in childhood.

Research conducted by the Yale Stress Center showed that the most likely cause children to be stressed is the experience of pain, illness, or injury has ever experienced. A child’s stress level can rise to severe stress when he experienced a variety of family conflict such as divorce, experiencing and witnessing violence, financial crisis, the death of a loved one, or face parents who have health problems, addiction, or mental disorders.

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress children, but some children were found to have excessive levels of anxiety when faced with stress. According to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, such children are considered to have or have had phases of post-traumatic stress. Many children had experienced early stress before they are ready physically and psychologically to cope. This will make them be more susceptible to high levels of stress as they grow into adulthood.

As a teenager, children who have experienced stress as a child will tend to isolate themselves, overeating, difficulty sleeping, until the drugs involved. To avoid this, help from parents, teachers, or other family members, is required so as not to let the children are under pressure. Here are some ways you can do to protect children from dangerous prolonged stress as adults.

1. Give social support. Interacting with other people and mobilize support for the child’s family that stress is the main way parents to protect children from the risk of stress.

2. Education and intellectual challenge. Children are more likely to learn to overcome this difficult when they are challenged in an environment that is “safe” such as schools. Encourage children to think creatively, to assist their development in the long run.

3. Increase optimism and emotional control tactics. Parents and families are actively involved in the lives of children can help protect children from attacks that may be experienced stress. Enough sleep is consistently also able to help children cope with stress more effectively.

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To teach Kids Saying Thank You

02 Jan 2012 by
teach the kids

teach the kids

To teach Kids Saying Thank You. Having children who are smart and decent is a dream of every parent. However, educating children to be polite is not easy. It is proper manners are taught from an early age to become a habit for your child. One of the manners of the most easy thing to do is say thank you.

Although actually easy, but in fact these words are very rarely spoken of children today. These words are considered normal, but thank you have a deep meaning and significance. Here are some ways you can do to make the kids do not hesitate to thank:

1. Give an example. Children are imitators accomplished, then you should give them all a good example to children as well as say thank you. A study states that children imitate at least 25 percent of the words of people who are often heard. Familiarize children hear the word “please” and “thank you” every day on a variety of conditions.

2. Explain what it means. Most of the children only know to say “thank you” as a formality after being given the help or on certain conditions. Should give children the understanding of the meaning of these words and what it does for those who listen. Having understood the meaning of the word so children can better appreciate the other person and say it with sincerity.

3. Describe the feelings of the listener. Encourage the child to imagine and experience for yourself the various feelings that result from these words. Invite them to imagine how pleased and happy feeling to hear someone saying that because their actions are appreciated.

4. Expression of gratitude. Explain to the children, that by saying thank you, children are indirectly also express gratitude to God for all blessings.

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Family Compactness, Why Not?

23 Dec 2011 by
Family Compactness

Family Compactness

Family Compactness have an impact on the entire family, especially on child development. Togetherness and Compactness in the family, became a stock for the child as he grows into adulthood and even adolescence. Build compactness in the family requires a process. It is also important to realize as well as the duties and responsibilities of parents.

The compact family has many benefits, especially for the child development. Among other things, as the child grows into adulthood and even adolescence, she would not be affected it negatively. Children also do not grow into a rebel in negative context. In addition, a compact family makes children feel close to her parents, like the dialogue with families, and children have high confidence. To create a family of compact, there are four main requirements. Among these, parents need to pay attention, have a receipt upon a child, performing routine activities with family members, and give affection.

First of all, parents need to give attention to the child, physically and psychologically. It is important to promote unity among all family members. Parents also need to have acceptance of the uniqueness, strengths, also lack of children. That way your child does not feel more demanded by the parents. Regarding the routine activities with family, create togetherness through activities within and outside the home.

The family needs a vacation together, together as a form of outbound leisure activities together outside the home. While inside the house, create a routine activity together like praying together, breakfast together, create the teamwork in doing chores, such as washing the dishes together after dinner.

From the four terms to build compactness and togetherness in the family before, parents can start from anywhere. Able to give affection such as hugs or kisses to children early on. Or you feel more comfortable with routines involving the whole family together. Regardless of how early you choose, make sure your family has a compactness that is marked by the presence of two-way communication and a strong emotional bond between parent and child.

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The Impact Of Crying at Night on Children

18 Dec 2011 by
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crying baby

The Impact Of Crying at Night on Children. When your child cries you will generally hold, give things of interest, or breast-feeding if they are still toddlers. Various things are very likely to do to respond to the crying child. But what if the child cries at night, when all sleep soundly? Do not stay silent when a child or a baby crying at night. Do not be lazy undefeated with a sense of being too sleepy. Moreover, let the children cry at night. Some parents may think the mute child crying at night, will give the child learning to ‘compose yourself’ till at last he could go back to sleep.

Researchers revealed that crying can be very dangerous for children, and lifelong impact. Parent task is to take steps to prevent, by making sure your baby comfortable and met their needs, to reduce crying. A good babysitting will alleviate the difficulties facing parents of children, including reducing infant crying. We recommend that you keep the baby not to cry except in emergencies.

When babies are stressed, their bodies release the hormone cortisol which can damage or even destroy the network of neurons in the brain. Impact, scrambled babies still in their infancy can not develop optimally. According to researchers from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, damage to brain tissue can result in a higher hazard such as ADHD. Not only that, in the long run, children will experience poor academic progress and even a tendency to become anti-social.

Crying at night, where children feel at ignored by parents who do not want to disturbed sleep, cause stress. In addition also affects the issue of trust, anxiety disorders, and reduced brain function. It should be, do not let the children cry for too long. When the children cry, immediately calm the child by a wise way, so that was no longer crying but does not mean also make children become dependent on you and be spoiled by it.

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