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Give 4-12 Caress a Day for The Kids

29 Nov 2011 by
Caress For Kids

Caress For Kids

Parents should caress or hug the child as much as 4-12 times a day. Caress and hug is one of the six pillars of positive parenting that are important for child development. Caress or hug the child four times a day is important for survival, eight times for maintenance of body systems, and 12 times for the growth of children. Hugs and caresses can be done spontaneously, when the morning after waking, noon, afternoon, even the night before bed.

When caressing or embracing, the body will release the hormone oxytocin. This hormone helps increase endurance, making the body more healthy because the body feels loved, accepted, appreciated also will support the growth and development more conducive. In addition to caress or hug, parents also need to communicate and play with the children. Encourage children to talk about everything that caught his attention. Can the lessons at school, its activities throughout the day, games like, ideals, until the complaints are being felt.

By taking the time to chat, the child will feel more comfortable. Indirectly stroking the child’s parents are actually other ways. Not just talking, parents also can play together. Pick a favorite game of children, so they will do it gladly.

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How To Make Our Children have Many Friends

23 Nov 2011 by
children and friends

children and friends

How To Make Our Children have Many Friends. Child’s desire to have the ability to make friends and have lots of friends, but parents tend to worry if a child’s play as they please and ultimately limit the activities of children. In fact, every person are social beings who need others. Success in the future is also determined by one’s ability to establish networking, which is learned in daily life since childhood. To address concerns of parents, here’s four ways you can do to keep the child can play and make friends:

1. Maximizing the school.
At school, children met with the children age and learn to socialize. When less supportive home environment for children to play, find schools that can meet those needs. Occasionally invite fellow students to play at home, or let the kids play to her friend.

2. Maximizing the playground.
Today many playgrounds are available to hone the skills development of preschool. Both the free ones in a city park or shopping center should pay. Parents can bring children to play there to meet their peers. Let the kids play together, while being watched from afar. Do not be too set the child to do something. Usually after seeing a lot of games, it would be fun to play with other kids who were there.

3. Invite meet many people.
If it happen to live in an environment that not many kids my age, take the child into a family event or other events that he has a chance to mingle. When parents are suspicious, by the kidnapping of children and so on, Take a child’s play to his cousin’s house so he could play with someone trusted and secure. Most important is the ability of children to interact with others remain honed.

4. Dig talents and interests.
Notice what the child liked or preferred. Insert it into the community. For example, children like to draw, drawing Include the course. When children love to dance, put dance studio. Meet with other children who have similar hobbies or interests that will facilitate friendship. This method can also be used for introverted children. Although he preferred to pull away, but when in the right environment, it was easier to get along or enjoy the friendship.

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Patience Exercises Make Kids Smarter

16 Nov 2011 by
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Patience Exercises Make Kids Smarter. What do you do when a child whining to ask something? If you are rushing to meet his request with a reason not to cry, then you are wrong. The act is actually a negative effect on child development. Should train the child to be patient, and explain to him that all it takes the process. In addition to being a better understanding of the condition of parents at the time, children also practice patience, and make them more intelligent.

In addition, children who wait will also appreciate all the things they have. With patience for waiting children things they want, indirectly they value the goods they had acquired with great difficulty and great patience.

Patience, has many benefits
For maximum results for the growth of a child, you should practice patience since early childhood, namely as a baby. For example, when would nurse told her to wait a bit because you would wash your hands. In addition to establishing intimate communication, this will also get children to wait. When children practice patience, you can also train a lot of positive things in the same time and fun. For example, saving money. When they ask buy toys, take her to be patient to buy it and start saving money in piggy bank to set aside a little funny allowance to buy toys. So there are three benefits that can be taken at a time: patience, thrift, and respect.

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Children’s Intelligence is Not The Primary

09 Nov 2011 by
Children's Intelligence

Children's Intelligence

Children’s Intelligence is Not The Primary. Children are often assumed to be great by parents as a smart kid and has a high academic value. No wonder the parents and then stuffing their children with extra lessons in the hope they could be smart and get the child in the class rankings. For children who have entered the school, parents have the perception that their child was great when it’s rank. To achieve this, children who have school from morning till evening still have to follow a variety of additional classes, and this would make the parents and children alike stress. And this all depends on the support parents in children.

 

The emphasis of the greatness of a child assessment should not only be seen on the results as a champion but rather the effort made to achieve the best. In other words, the important thing is not a champion or a winner, but how to improve the soul winner’s parents in children, because this is key for children to gain success.

Intelligence is not the most important thing to determine a person’s success. Research conducted on 733 people millionaires in America shows, there are 30 factors that influence success. Of the 30 factors that influence the success, factors that occupy the top three must-have every child is being honest, disciplined, and smart to get along. While the bottom three positions in the factors that determine success and greatness of the child is a high IQ, school at prestigious schools, and graduated with the highest value is ranked 30.

Based on these considerations, it seems you do not need to be too concerned if your child does not have a high rank in his class. However, as much as possible to give attention to the child without having to sacrifice time to play for a variety of additional tutoring excessive. Give also an appreciation for every child in the small progress that he did, so he is more motivated to try harder and maximum.

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Overcoming Children’s Fear of Sleep Alone

24 Oct 2011 by
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Overcoming Children’s Fear of Sleep Alone. When your child was a baby, maybe you will not have trouble sleeping due to fear of the dark at night. This is because you always watch every night, so they will not feel afraid during the day or night. However, when the kids started to move a toddler, surely there will be time to teach them to dare to sleep in her own room. When it came time to sleep on his own, toddlers tend to have difficulty sleeping alone at night. Not infrequently bedtime becomes very scary for them.

This fear must be eliminated so that the children become independent and avoid the anxiety of the dark which impact on the disruption of sleep a night. Do not be too often to accompany your child and keep myself to sleep, because this will only make them rely on you and ultimately can not be independent. Toddlers who rely on parents to keep myself to sleep at night, would make them often wake up at night and the fear of the dark until they mature.

Bedmate
Many ways you can do to overcome their fear of the child to sleep alone and sleep at night. One way is by selecting bedside lamps are beautiful, and like children, so bring comfort to the children. In addition, it could not hurt to provide a cute doll in his bed.

Suggestion
To allay fears of children during the night, give your child a new toy like a doll. Then tell him that he must protect the doll from the dark of night so they can sleep soundly. This will make your child can feel more intense that should protect the doll.

Another way is by telling him that the doll to sleep with it a duty to keep them safe and comfortable. This speech will make your child sleep better because they feel safe and protected.

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Introducing Money To Children

05 Oct 2011 by

Introducing Money To Children. Often you do a variety of errors when teaching children about money. If this is not also your awareness, the child would not be getting the message you want to convey. Here are some common mistakes made when parents introducing a child about the value of money:

1. Giving the wrong example. Perhaps the most unconscious of this error when doing it. You teach your child to save money and not spending money to buy unnecessary items.

2. Difficult to distinguish the needs and desires. Nothing wrong if you buy something that is desperately needed. However, this is different from the things that we want. When a parent is difficult to distinguish where the needs and desires, then the child would not be able to distinguish between them.

3. Always save the child from the mistakes. When learning to manage money, the children must often make mistakes. For example, when given pocket money for a week, usually they are difficult to manage it so that not until a week the money has run out. Quite often you feel sorry for the kids, because they can not buy a snack anymore because the money was gone. Pity this makes you tend to save him from mistakes, so that children do not learn from his mistakes. Instead, let the child feel hard it can not snack because there was no money he had.

4. Appreciate everything with money. Do not ever give him money in return for everything that had to be done, such as homework. Do not give him the wages of a sum of money when he managed to get good grades in class, or after to help you do your homework. If you do, you will fail to provide the right motivation to work hard and learn a maximum at the school. In addition, the child receives is not the satisfaction that comes with doing their best to achieve the goal, but to get that much money from you.

5. Using money as a substitute for time and attention. Working all day to meet all household needs is commonly performed by men and career women. However, this causes an imbalance in domestic life. For those of you who are busy, often children do not receive sufficient attention. To overcome this, usually you will give some money and let them choose all the things they want so they are happy and not whine call your attention.

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One Step Closer to the Indigo Children

24 Sep 2011 by
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One Step Closer to the Indigo Children. Children are a gift from God. As parents we are trusted by God to care for the child, even after your child’s circumstances, it is mandatory for you to still love him, whatever the advantages and disadvantages of the child, including if you have an Indigo child.

The term Indigo comes from the Spanish. Indigo Children and popularized the term from the book “Understanding Your Life Through Color” by Nancy Ann Tape 1980. Nancy examines the color of the aura of each child and correlate with a personality that is owned. From the research, Nancy suggests that children who have the aura color of indigo (a mix of purple and blue colors are better known as Indigo) shows the advantages that lead to the sixth sense (read: Indigo)

Either situation is referred to as excess Indigo what children have deficiencies. Indigo is a condition in which the child has a way of thinking is far more mature than his age. Generally, their way of thinking oriented technology. In addition they were not only able to see things mystical abilities thanks to a more spiritual side, Indigo children also could resolve questions that could not be answered by his age.

Another feature of the Indigo child is having a very high IQ than average, very sensitive, sharp feeling and can see the past and the things that exist in the future. Indigo Children are not the same with children who have a sixth sense, but the Indigo child must have a sixth sense, while people who have a sixth sense does not necessarily belong to the category of Indigo.

Physically and emotionally they are very sensitive. They are also very caring and empathy for others, too few to be seen not callous. Indigo Children can be irritable and rude, they need the confidence that he accepted and require counseling. Indigo also has a sense of depression at a young age if they feel it is okay to feel they were born or are unable to do anything to improve the world.

If you have an Indigo child, you do not have to treat things that are special to your child. Treat it the normal course, if you are too special treat it will interfere with their mental. In fact there are a number of opinions that Indigo is classified as “sick” or not normal and should be treated like children in general. In fact there are disorder Indigo children in the system exactly in the workings of the brain in the limbic system of the brain (neurotransmitters). You should consult a physician and psychiatrist for further treatment. You also can perform the religious scholars of religious therapy.

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The Differences between Boy and Girl in a Friendship

09 Sep 2011 by
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friendly manner

The Differences between Boy and Girl in a Friendship. The way of boys and girls in friendships is different. When growing up, girls were more defines friendship as a friend who will listen and understand, as well as a place to vent and share emotions. While young boys looking at friendship as a friend to share time together, at his side when he faces the conflict, and sharing the same interests. For boys, emotional intimacy is not too important in defining the proximity of the relationship rather than loyalty when he faced a problem.

Proximity of children and parents formed in the first 24 months of life. The closeness that has great influence on the lives of children, including the underlying relationships in the child’s future. The presence of relatives also had an influence on the style of friendships of children in positive and negative ways. The way a child can affect the way he faced his brother were friends in the future. Some children are lucky enough to be friendly with his own brother.

The way of boys and girls in friendly is look similar in early age, or until the pre-school. However, the way boys are friends began to change around age 7 years, and usually stood to lose his temper. This can be seen if you look at the interaction of girls befriend a bunch of children than men when playing together. Girls are generally more outgoing, play cooperatively, want to negotiate conflicts, and show feelings when he was playing house, for example. While the boys play differently, they are more likely to play a competitive, test the loyalty of friends, and compare the physical ability and size.

One of the most frequently debated is, starting at age 7, boys began to act lazy show affection to people around him, such as hugging. At present, the action is flexible enough affection, affection or action to make children more open with the touch of affection within reasonable limits can be taught through parents’ actions.

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The Benefits of Music For Children

21 Aug 2011 by
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music for children

The benefits of music is not limited to the newborn. In the following days, music can serve as a living part of the child. Play music at least three times a day. In the morning when I wake up, introduction to nap after tired of playing, so as humming a lullaby. Listening to music is not just for his physical health, but also mental health and brain development or cognitive. Here are the benefits of listening to music for children:

1. Enhance motor skills.
Baby (even a fetus) that listening to music, heart rate and physical development for the better. Rhythm of the music proved able to stimulate the baby to happy move. This response certainly helps physical development of infants in terms of strength, coordination and motor control.

2. Improving communication skills.
Music can help brain development in infants receiving information. This capability later influence his skill in communicating. Games involving music will rapidly increase language skills of children and quickly add vocabulary. Later he would grow into a child who is able to organize ideas and solve problems quickly.

3. Have better digestion.
Babies who are exposed to music will have better digestion because of a sense of relaxation that it receives. Impact, increased metabolic efficiency and eventually added his weight better.

4. Improve math skills.
There are close links between musical proficiency with mastery of a high-level mathematics. Also skills in science, when one day the child was in school. Music is also able to enhance their spatial intelligence (intelligence space) as much as 46 percent compared to children who are not exposed to music.

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Toddler Being ‘Bossy’, Why?

09 Aug 2011 by
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Bossy behavior is preserved early on carry over into adulthood. Parents need to understand why this good behavior can occur in infants. Bossy attitude should be corrected early on. There are a number of reasons why preschool children (under five) to be bossy. Little rule, especially if the babysitter who thinks there could be ordered to-order arbitrarily liver.

1. egocentric
Preschoolers still see the world through his mind. So he expects someone else to act as he wishes. This implies a tendency to play a lot of orders.

2. seeking attention
For some children, being bossy is a way to get attention. Perhaps all this time he invites parents about playing together or doing fun activities.

3. mimic
Environmental factors have a strong role of the bossy behavior of the preschool. The possibility of children never saw their parents who are always “ordering” of domestic workers. Children are skilful imitator. Moreover, if the model behavior is the person who idolized preschool, parents.

4. Children are always served
Often parents do not realize that they always serve the child, and did not teach him independent. Included are served by the caregiver. This condition eventually becomes habit and shape the behavior of children who love to play command. Children will assume all men have to serve him.

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