Sep 30, 2011

Caring for premature babies with kangaroo method

GladChild: Kangaroo method for premature babies has been found since 1983 and is useful for treating babies born with low weight, both during hospitalization and at home.

Kangaroo method premature babies is able to provide basic needs of infants with low birth weight, the way through the supply situation and a condition similar to the mother's womb, thus providing opportunities to adapt better to the outside world. Kangaroo method is also much loved baby and is beneficial because it can provide a sense of safety, comfort, strengthen the instinct to feel the baby's heartbeat and her mother searched for his own nipples.

Kangaroo method can be performed two weeks after birth, and infant following criteria that can do the kangaroo care method:
  • Most babies with more or less weight 2000 g.
  • Babies who do not have accompanying disorders or diseases, as well as reflex and coordination of suck and swallow well may also undergo this method.
  • Infants should have a good progress during his stay in the incubator.
  • Preparedness and participation of parents will be very supportive in the success of the kangaroo method.
The benefits of kangaroo care premature babies using this method, among them:
  • Stabilizes body temperature, heart rate and breathing
  • Improve maternal-child emotional relationship
  • Improved growth and weight babies better
  • Babies do not stay long to cry
  • Improving the emotional state of mothers and babies
  • Increasing milk production
  • Reduce the risk of infection during the hospitalization
  • Shorten the period of hospitalization
Here are the steps in conducting a kangaroo method:
  1. Give your baby clothes, hats, diapers and socks that have been warmed first.
  2. Place the baby on your chest, in an upright position and in direct contact with your skin. Make sure the baby's head is fixed on your chest. Position your baby with the elbow and legs bent, head and chest located on your chest with your head slightly up. You can also wear a shirt with a large size so that the baby can be placed between the breasts and then clothes were held together. Wear a scarf wrapped around your stomach so the baby does not fall.
  3. If it can not support the baby's clothes, you can use a towel or large cloth which is elastic or bags that are specially made to keep the baby's body.
  4. During this kangaroo method, you can still move freely, can move freely while standing, sitting, walking, eating and chatting. But be sure, while sleeping, you half-sitting position or put some pillows behind your back.
  5. If you are tired, this method can be done also by the father or someone else.
  6. Consider the preparation of the mother, baby, the baby, infant monitoring, breastfeeding way, and the cleanliness of the mother is also her baby.
This method can be applied until the baby does not want to undergo this kind of treatment again or usually around the age of 36 weeks because the baby is big. And in this age, the doctor will examine the retina so that blindness can be prevented, ears, bones, and vaccination, but usually wait until the baby weighed about 2 kg.

The doctor will also check the number and timing of drinking baby, such as ad labium or in the baby's ability to drink milk approximately 180-200 ml/kg/day. Then check the baby's weight gain, a minimum of 20-30 grams or about 2 ounces a week and monitor its growth.

After the results showed good conditions coupled with increasing weight, the premature baby is already to be treated at home and grow like any other normal baby. If you are still confused about grammar-how care of premature infants with the kangaroo method for premature babies, you can dig deeper from the doctor or the parties with experience in the kangaroo method.


9 Mistake in caring for newborn babies

GladChild: Caring for the newborn baby is certainly not as easy as you might imagine. It sure would be a lot of mistakes in doing so, this is particularly true in new mothers. Sometimes even new mothers have learned in caring for baby with the help of parents or through the book, still it can often make mistakes.

Often even small mistakes are not recognized by the mother, ranging from changing diapers or diapers, one wearing clothes, to give the wrong toys and other things that can threaten harm your baby. So what things are often done in the new mom made a mistake in caring her babies he did not realize it?

Here are some mistakes in caring for infants that are often carried out without intentional and how to overcome them:
  1. Keep clean, this may be very trivial, but it is important to do in order to maintain the health of the newborn baby. If you have friends or relatives who came to see the birth of your baby, then you should inform in advance to wash their hands before going to hold your baby or when they're cold or cough should not be too close. This is important, because babies under six months are still in shaping the immune systems. Also, do not travel first if the baby is still under the age of six months to avoid the crowds so that your child is not held by many people who are not known.
  2. Choose the right clothes, wearing clothes on the baby also needs your attention. Do not let you wear the wrong clothes when the weather is hot, but the baby clothes worn closed or vice versa. Body of newborn baby will usually be easily overheated. Therefore, choose the right clothes from not too closed.
  3. Provide toys that are dangerous, watch out with this one. Often if you forget to give toys to the child is not in accordance with his age or even not a toy that is not supposed to be baby toys. As an example, when your child whines ask her toys but instead you replace it with a key. And this is not the right thing, because it contains the key to high levels of lead and can cause brain damage and reduced IQ levels.
  4. Babies put to sleep in his stomach, according to research results revealed that infants who are put to sleep on his stomach on a soft blanket at risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) or sudden infant death syndrome, compared with infants who sleep supine on a blanket that is not too soft.
  5. Lack of fluid when the baby is not fussy, if the baby feel calm and do not fret you are wrong to think that he is not hungry or thirsty. You need to be regularly in providing food and drink. Watch for signs if your child is eating enough, that if he wet the bed in the 6 times a day after his birth in the first week. However, if it does not also appear to consult a doctor immediately.
  6. Often given antibiotics, many parents are wrong, if their children are sick more often exposed to antibiotics administered. In fact, antibiotics alone are not good for the health of children, especially the baby's body. Antibiotics alone are also not appropriate to treat diseases caused by viruses such as flu, diarrhea, vomiting, and sore throat. Antibiotics can only be used to cure diseases caused by streptococcus bacteria. In addition, by taking antibiotics so often infants can cause the baby to become resistant and when his body needed antibiotics will not work again on his body.
  7. Dose of the drug on the advice of a doctor, always follow the doctor's advice, if the baby was sick to give the appropriate dose of a doctor's advice. Do not identify the drug doses in infants and older children because the dose was different.
  8. Keep dangerous objects, one year after the baby is moving more to 1.5 years usually can crawl. Therefore, whenever possible you pay attention to the area around the houses whether there are dangerous objects are easy to reach by the child or not. Avoid objects such as vases, ashtrays or items easily glassware, note also the sockets, wires, furniture sharp and medications.
  9. Make sure beforehand if the products you buy for your child is safe when used. So also with drugs that are considered natural or herbal, you should first check with your doctor to find certainty.
Caring for infants is not an easy thing. One little can be fatal. Therefore, you need to be careful and pay attention to anything that takes your child in infancy.


Sep 29, 2011

8 Myths about babies that is not true

GladChild: Many advices or myth about the baby who once provided the parents can no longer practiced today. Some facts are now considered outdated:

1. Baby sleeping soundly in a quiet and dark room

In fact, the children now sleep easy even against the backdrop of noise and little light. Plus, if the baby is doing before they sleep, usually they will easily fall asleep with a wide variety of situations.

2. When the baby has a fever, compress with alcohol to reduce fever

In fact, giving a compress on the infants with alcohol would not reduce fever. It is not even safe because alcohol can be absorbed through the skin.

3. Letting your baby stand or jumping on your lap can shorten the baby's feet

In fact, the baby will not be shortened legs. That's really a myth. In contrast, babies learn to balance their weight by trying to find the center of gravity. So, let your baby stand up and jumping on your lap would be fun and help its development.

4. Listening to classical music can increase the IQ of babies

In fact music can enrich the life of the baby, but no definitive studies that listening to classical music can encourage brain development.

5. Letting a baby cry, preventing the baby becomes spoiled.

In fact babies 4 months of age had only a few ways to cry. They know when they will whine and spoiled, and nothing else. So, pick up the baby cry while helping them understand that parents will always be there when the baby needs them.

6. It should not be immunized as a baby fever

In fact, a small fever will not decrease the immune response in infants or increase the risk of overreaction from the immunization.

7. Do not provide sun protection cream in infants under the age of 6 months

In fact, the risk of skin cancer can happen to the sun-exposed skin and your baby is also at risk. It would be good for the baby away from the sun at certain hours. By giving sun protection cream containing SPF 15, you will protect it from the risk of skin cancer. Apply a small amount on face and hands of babies.

8. It is important to keep baby bottles and pacifiers kept sterile

You only need to sterilize bottles and nipples when they are removed from the box. After that, wash it with soap and water is sufficient for infants exposed to more bacteria from their environment than from a bottle that they use.

Sep 27, 2011

Lack of sleep can cause bad behavior in teens

GladChild: Most teens do not get enough sleep due to spending more time at the computer or watching television until late at night. Studies show this condition makes teens tend to behave badly and not healthy.

Studies conducted U.S. researchers found that sleep deprivation can seriously impact on adolescents. In addition to risk the health of the body, teenagers who sleep less tend to be more likely to behave badly.

Study reveals teens that slept less than 8 hours on a school night is more likely to engage in risky bad behavior, such as:
  • Drinking a soda at least once a day
  • Do not get 60 minutes of physical activity at least five of the last seven days
  • Spent 3 hours or more per day in front of a computer
  • Involved with physical fights
  • Involved in drug use, such as smoking or drinking alcohol or marijuana
  • Free sex
  • Feeling sad or hopeless
  • Serious suicide attempts.
In this study, researchers analyzed results from a national survey of Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2007 on high school students about sleep habits. The survey found that nearly 70 percent of teens do not get enough sleep as recommended by the National Sleep Foundation, which is 8 hours of sleep on school nights.

Many teenagers are not getting the recommended sleep time at night school. Inadequate sleep is associated with participation in a number of health risk behaviors including drug use, physical fighting and serious consideration of suicide attempts, said Lela McKnight Eily, the division adult health and community CDC, as reported by HealthDay on Wednesday September 28, 2011.

According to McKnight Eily, public health interventions are needed. Postpone consideration of school hours can be one of effective measures in a comprehensive approach to address this problem.

Children can feel stress of his parents

GladChild: If you're stressed about tour work, although you are thinking or trying to hide from the kids, still anxiety and stress was wafted by them.

An article in shine.com mention how parents protect children from child anxiety and stress that it affects them physically and emotionally, more than you imagine.

Stress in the elderly can weaken the immune system and brain development in children. Increase the risk of allergies, obesity, and psychiatric disorders, said David Code, author of Kids Pick Up on Everything.

The study said that stress a parent feels the child could damage the system of their emotions and make deviant behavior out of habit. Stress is contagious between parents and their children, he said. Even when parents are unaware of their own anxiety.

The neurologists, as mentioned in the study, says that stress transmission from parent to child because the attunement or the human ability to feel empathy. Attunement is also a picture of the bond between mother and fetus. Parents and children are bound to one another, he said. It's more to the vibrations that we give to them.

Transmission of stress was not influenced by the origin and type of stress. From economic factors to the desire to be perfect parents for children can also increase stress and injure the child. From headaches, sleep disturbances, sensitive, and rapid emotional.

Therefore, Dr. Michelle L. Bailey, Director of Duke Integrative Medicine and author of Parenting Your Child Stressed Out, recommends that parents talk about their problems better by children with language that is understandable. Or make your mind relaxed parents because it helps the child indirectly to cope with stress.

A lot of stress is not due to reaction of the danger, but because of our own thoughts, he said. With more sensitive to give the children time to recognize their minds and choose how they chose to react rather than stress.


Sep 26, 2011

Premature babies have high death rate when babies grow into adolescents

GladChild: The birth of a baby before the full gestational age sometimes can not be avoided. Babies born prematurely need medical care and maximum attention.

Babies born prematurely will usually be highly susceptible to several health problems. According to a new study, when premature babies grow into adolescents, have a high mortality rate.

Most babies are born prematurely are more susceptible to various health problems compared with babies born to the age of full content.

Previous studies showed the risk of premature infant death ends after the baby made it through the first year of his birth, after which the normal risk of death.

But a new study in contrast with previous studies, which found that premature babies are more prone to death as a teenager for a serious illness such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma. Some of the disease progression of the disease does have a fairly long time.

This is a completely new discovery. Even babies born only a few weeks early also still have an increased risk of death. However, the absolute mortality rate of about 1 per 1,000 people per year, so it still includes very low, said Dr. Casey Crump from Stanford University, as quoted from HealthNews on Monday September 26, 2011.

The results of Dr. Crump have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study involved almost 675,000 Swedes born between the years 1973-1979. Researchers found children who were born before the age of 37 weeks of gestation have a higher chance of dying before age 5 years when compared to babies born to the age of full content.

Although the children had made it through childhood, but then the child has a higher chance to experience death in approximately 18-36 years of age.

Dr. Crump said the health problems that may be associated with the death of babies born in premature, including heart disease, diabetes, and asthma. Some of the disease progression of the disease does have a fairly long time.

I think it is important to realize the potential increased risk of various health problems will be experienced by premature babies, he said.


Sep 25, 2011

6 Tips on how to treat skin rashes in babies

GladChild: Skin rashes on baby's is often the case, several circumstances can lead to irritation, such as:
  • Use of synthetic diapers or plastic pants lined the old are not replaced, often leading directly to the skin rashes caused by accumulation of urine or feces that contain ammonia. Closing of the diaper area as well as the temperature increases the humidity in the folds of the buttocks further facilitate the absorption of these chemicals are irritants. If it lasts over and over protective skin is damaged, making it easier for the proliferation of fungi, like Candida albicans.
  • In these areas, especially folds in the baby fat like the neck, groin, elbow fold, if there is buildup of sweat that is too long then it will irritate baby's skin. Recurrent inflammation that occurs will also be exacerbated by the proliferation of fungi such as Candida albicans.
  • Infants with a family history of allergies will be more common complaints of skin rashes, such as smooth scales on the scalp area resulting from the use of cosmetic products had a high pH shampoo or hair-lotion that is too fragrant. Can also encountered something similar in the chest, back, abdomen due to the use of such heating oil or eucalyptus baby oil used constantly in hot climates.
  • Drought baby's skin caused by repeated use of soap containing antiseptic. Chronic inflammation caused by contact irritants weak will affect the balance of normal flora of skin, with reduced power due to the skin's natural defenses.
  • A newborn baby who consume cow's milk formula with high pH levels sometimes found redness in the area around the anus.
How to treat skin rashes on baby's?
  1. The most important is prevention, because when examined all the factors that cause skin rashes of infants can be prevented. New skin disorder in baby generally occurs when exposure has occurred repeatedly over a period of time.
  2. Avoid the temporary use of disposable diapers or plastic-lined pants during inflammation. Wear a soft thin cloth diaper fabric absorbs sweat. Wash the area surrounding each baby's buttocks and urinate or defecate for infants with mild soap, pat dry with a soft towel and gently pat do not rub harshly. Avoid talcum powder when the skin is inflamed.
  3. Folds of the inflamed area is often compressed with a washcloth towel soaked in water, avoid the use of powder for a while. Regional folds are often opened and aerated. When sweating immediately wipes it gently with a washcloth towel soaked in water, do not rub and then dried with a towel. Wear loose cotton clothes are thin and easily absorb sweat.
  4. Where the scaly skin can be given a special moisturizing cream after bathing the baby. Do not bathe with water too hot to linger. Use a special baby soap and shampoo. For the time being avoid using talcum powder or a variety of cosmetic products for babies.
  5. Do not apply ointment, cream or any oil on the inflamed area without consulting with your doctor first.
  6. Skin rashes in baby's skin is more often caused by weak irritants such as sweat, urine, feces, skin care products are one use, detergent, or liquid antiseptic and perhaps we too have a hand to expose it. Sometimes the onset of irritation is supported by a suitable condition for the emergence of inflammation as a factor of moisture, heat, friction or closed.

Sep 24, 2011

7 Tips how to overcome spoiled children

GladChild: When children begin to leave the toddler age, sometimes they are still just spoiled. Even up to the age of seven years or they already have a brother, sometimes they still like to whine like a younger brother who was a toddler. Spoiled child is usually because the treatment the parents who are too excessive in all obey what he asks. What do kids ask, parents are always filled. Consequently if the parent does not fulfill her desire until the child was whining and crying.

The nature of spoiled children also occurs in terms of a desire to remain close to their parents. Not infrequently in children who are school age are always fighting with a toddler to get his sister from his mother's caresses.

What do you as parents to cope with a spoiled children? Here are 7 tips on how to overcome a spoiled children:
  1. Parents must have a willingness to no longer spoil the child. Spoiled behavior one of them because all this what they want is always obeyed.
  2. Begin to not spoil the child and teach independent living of small things. For example familiarize children take their own uniforms, take a meal or drinking alone.
  3. Measures to not spoil the child should also be done by parents or other caregivers, not just by one person.
  4. Comunicate with children, that should be for the current age begin to have responsibilities. Explain about priorities, that not all desired must be met.
  5. If the child's parents are still ignoring orders to whine or cry, give the sense that the action was not true. Give hugs and support to calm the child.
  6. Parents should be consistent to not spoil the child, not just one or two days ago come back ask them.
  7. Give praise when the child is no longer whine when asking for something, so that children understand that parents are pleased when she began to change.
If you have other experiences to overcome a spoiled children, to convey to my friends shared with the others below it.

Sep 23, 2011

The benefits of playing outside for children

GladChild: Playing is one of the advantages of being a child. But when parents increasingly worried about the future and their children's education, children play time is reduced drastically compared to some decades ago.

These trends have serious impact to the development of children and mental health.

In the 1950's, children are free play. If the kids just stay home, mother would say 'go out and play'. A natural place for the kids are outside the home, said Peter Gray, professor study psychology at Boston College, as quoted from HealthDay on Friday September 23, 2011.

Today the opposite is true, parents do not allow children to play freely. Even if the kids do it anyway, no other kids out there to play with. Or the mother may limit the child, such as should not be out of the pages. In fact, the kids want to play out, continued Gray.

When the children were allowed to play, they make the game, negotiate the rules and make sure other people play fair. All of that helped teach how to make decisions, solve problems and control yourself.

Children who have too many emotional outbursts or obtrude stubborn need to change their behavior if you want to remain integrated in the group.

With the free game, they acquire the basic competencies needed to become an adult. But since the mid-1950s, the adults also determine children's activities at the expense of the mental health of her children, said Gray, author of two new studies published recently in the American Journal of Play.

Research shows children today are more likely to experience anxiety, depression, feelings of helplessness, and narcissism. All of which coincided with the decline of play activities and increasing parental monitoring and regulation of activities of the children by their parents.

For boys, the game is rough and often causes the fall to help teach emotion regulation, said Peter LaFreniere, professor of developmental psychology at the University of Maine.

Boys learn that if they wanted to keep his friends, they should not let it go too far or hurt other children. These skills will help boys grow into men who were able to control aggression and anger, he said.

Although a growing number of experts who voiced the importance of playing against mental and physical health of children, but the amount of play time children stay decreased significantly.

Gray cites a survey with a representative sample of parents nationwide who keep track of children's activities in 1981 and 1997. The researchers found that children aged 6 to 8 years in 1997 to play 25 percent less than children in 1981.

Another study about ten years ago to ask 830 people compares the U.S. capital when their children play with their own playing time when he was a child. About 70 percent of mothers reported that they often play outside when still a child. But only 31 percent who said that their own children to do the same.

So what causes the children should remain in the house? According to the survey, the biggest reason is because of fear of abduction, followed by fears the children will be hit by a car and is plagued by bad kids.

Their fear has created an overly protective parents and raising children are timid and unable to cope with the ups and downs of life because they do not have the experience," says Hara Estroff Marano, author of 'A Nation of WIMPs: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting' of New York.

A survey found that 89 percent of children prefer to play outside with my friends than watching TV.

Parents should remember that childhood only once, and do not let the kids miss it for granted. Mixed with other children with uncontrolled manner not only fun but also a natural part of the plan, said LaFreniere.


Sep 21, 2011

How to overcome vomiting in babies

GladChild: Vomiting in babies is one of the disorders that often occur in infants. Typically, this occurs because the baby is too much to drink milk, spit and air disturbance. Babies who are cuddled too closely after a meal are also stimulated to vomit, how to overcome vomiting in babies:
  • Slow-feeding give it little by little, but with the frequency rather frequently. Try to burp your baby every time you move to the other breast.
  • Feed the baby in an upright position. Position your baby remain upright for 20-30 minutes after feeding. Do not be cuddled or rocked, at least half an hour after feeding. If given a milk bottle, make sure the nipple hole is too small or too big.
  • Formula milk allergy or food that mothers eat can affect the baby through breast milk consumption.
  • Generally foods that are potentially disruptive in breast milk is made from dairy-processed products, foods or beverages that contain caffeine, such as soft drinks, chocolate, coffee, tea, etc. Then the seeds and nuts, for example wheat, corn, peanuts, spicy foods and foods that contain a gas such as broccoli, garlic, bean sprouts, green peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and so on.
So it's good if the mother keep the food he eats. Eat only healthy foods, especially foods that are recommended by your doctor.


Sep 20, 2011

Characteristics of children who suffer from leukemia

GladChild: Leukemia can be treated with a long duration of treatment and should be under strict medical supervision. If the child is suffering from acute leukemia not immediately addressed, in a matter of weeks he could meet his death. While children who suffer from chronic leukemia, if not immediately addressed, usually in a matter of years of death caused by leukemia in children threatened.

Handling a child who has leukemia varies, depending on the level and type. Usually, to treat patients with acute and chronic leukemia, the patient must undergo chemotherapy and administered anti-cancer drugs (stitostatika). Leukemia treatment process should be under strict medical supervision. Therefore, stitostatika drug is a drug that could interfere with a heavy dose of other organs such as kidneys, liver, and heart.

The role of doctors here recommends other medications required to counteract the side effects of these anticancer drugs. In addition, patients can undergo other leukemia treatment methods, such as surgery or bone marrow transplant.

Immediately perform the checks to the doctor if your child exhibits the following characteristics:
  • Skin pale yellowish child
  • Shortness of breath
  • Incurred blue patches on the skin
  • Pain in the bone
  • Board of fever (no obvious cause)
  • Fatigue is not excited
  • Hemorrhage (bleeding) due to decreased levels of platelets
  • Vomiting

Sep 19, 2011

Is a vegetarian eating patterns suitable for babies?

GladChild: By providing a nutritious and varied food for your baby, it is suitable for vegetarian babies. Vegetarian in infants is not problematic, even very good. The results of a study states that there are no vegetarian infants suffering from malnutrition. Instead there is a toddler instead of vegetarian nutrition or excess weight. Vegetarians can be performed on babies, but we must plan well on nutrition and type of food that varies each time continuously. Special attention is focused on the needs of a diet rich in nutrients such as protein, calcium, vitamin B12 and vitamin D in vegetarian eating patterns.

To make a vegetarian eating patterns in infants, we must ensure that some groups that must be consumed like food: grains, milk (soy milk is recommended), and nuts. So what is an important nutrient for your vegetarian baby nutrients? Nutrients that are important for vegetarian infants include iron, vitamin B12, and protein. Iron is present in wheat, grains, dark leafy vegetables such as broccoli and spinach, green beans, peas, dried fruits, like apricots, as variations can also be given cake nuts, soy products, or soups thick.

Other sources rich in vitamin B12 are present in yeast extract, milk and infant formula products. Give your baby at least until his first birthday. There are rich sources of protein in grains, breads, rice and pasta. Provide various kinds of proteins in your baby's menu every week, so the need for amino acids in your baby into a healthy balance.

Sep 16, 2011

10 tips on how to make children like to eat vegetables and fruits

GladChild: The right diet for your child is vegetables and fruits. But what if they do not like your cooking menu is made from vegetables and fruits? If you have difficulty in feeding your child when it comes to seducing them to eat vegetables and fruit, you need not worry because this article will discuss how to make children like to eat vegetables and fruits.

Do you know what reasons that make your child does not like vegetables and fruit? This is because taste of vegetables and fruits that they know has a bland flavor and not as sweet as they drank milk formula. And of course you also want to always make the child nutritious diet and that includes vegetables and fruits that they like both kinds of food.

Here are some tips that you can do in the face of the child who does not like vegetables and fruits:
  1. Try not always force a child to eat vegetables and fruit.
  2. For the initial stage, introduce children to the taste of vegetables and then gradually with fruit at the time of Complementary feeding.
  3. At the introduction stage, choose vegetables and fruits with a good taste, sweet taste like the taste of milk formula.
  4. Phase solids serve food in the form of puree, blend in a way that is then filtered, and the juice is taken alone. With a soft texture and slightly dilute making babies was not surprised when eating it.
  5. Choose high-fiber vegetables and fruits to be easy to chew, better to be eaten immediately or cooked for a while so that the enzymes and vitamins that contained no less.
  6. Do not forget to always present a menu of vegetables and fruits.
  7. As a parent, give an example to the children that you love vegetables and fruits.
  8. When you present the food menu, always include vegetables and fruits as side dishes in addition to the options menu.
  9. Put small pieces of vegetables and fruit and allow the child to feed themselves.
  10. When children want to try vegetable or fruit that you serve, praise him.
Therefore, do not ever upset and give up when making the diet for children, especially vegetables and fruits, for the sake of the love child of vegetables and fruits. It required patience, patience, and your creativity in making children's food.


Sep 15, 2011

6 Clean and healthy habits that must be taught to children

GladChild: Clean healthy life should have been taught since childhood. Here are 6 habits of clean living that must be taught to the child's.

Childhood is the time he enjoys outdoor games such as play-dirty mud or dirt. Therefore parents should start teaching about hygiene since she was a toddler.

Personal hygiene of a child should be a top priority when he grows so he is less susceptible to disease or infection. Here are six habits that must be taught to clean your baby, as quoted from Lifemojo, Thursday September 15, 2011:

1. Wash hands with soap
Invite your child to always wash their hands using soap and tell when the hands should be washed. Make sure children wash the surface of hands, between your fingers and rinse the dirt that is trapped under the nail. Parents can teach through song that contains the sequence of proper handwashing.

2. Brushing teeth properly
Care is needed since the age of 1 year to prevent the risk of cavities. Make sure your child to brush teeth properly as up and down and circular motion, and makes brushing your teeth 2 times a day. Use the form of favorite cartoon characters on the small brush so that it becomes a fun activity.

3. Cleaning the tongue
Try to teach children to clean their tongue after brushing your teeth, because the surface of the tongue can be a place for bacteria to grow and nests of small particles of food.

4. Familiarize to take a bath 2 times a day
Children love to play so it is easy to sweat, so get used to bathe 2 times a day to clean skin. Teach him to rub the hands, feet, armpits, groin and the folds of the body using a gentle soap. If the child refuses to take a bath, try to persuade by placing a favorite toy in the bathtub or shower foam.

5. Cleaning the children ears
Children may not have been able to clean by own ears, because the really significant stuff those parents play a role here. Clean ears regularly can help prevent the risk of complications such as infection, irritation or damage to the eardrum.

6. Train children to peeing and defecate at toilet
Generally, the children become accustomed to using the toilets since the age of 2-3 years.


Shy children may experience a mental disorder

GladChild: The new guidelines for diagnosing mental disorder are being developed in the United States. Experts fear the use of psychotropic drugs increases, since the guide was quiet and shy children is also considered a mental illness.

During this time, children who tend to be closed because of shyness assessed only need to be given support so that more confident. With the inclusion of these properties in the category of mental disorder, shy children will need more than just assistance but also treatment.

Of course this is upsetting the psychiatrist, because psychotropic drugs like Ritalin and Prozac will be more widely used. This year alone an estimated 650.000 children aged 8-13 years has been taking Ritalin, far more than 20 years ago that only 9000 children.

In fact, recent research shows, children less than six years already received these drugs to cope with Hyperactivity Disorder and Attention Concentration. Long-term effects of worrying, because these drugs work in the central nervous system and can lead to addiction.

In a society that always wants instant results, the use of drugs to alter behavior is certainly very tempting. But there are many other ways that are safer even though it takes more time and energy, said Kate Falon of the Association of Educational Psychologists, as quoted by the Telegraph on Thursday September 15, 2011.

Another way is by Falon of which include cognitive behavioral therapy (cognitive behavioral therapy). Therapy was conducted through the assistance it can cope with emotional disorders, behavioral and mood without having to rely on medication.

But when shyness was categorized as mentally ill, then the impression will be more severe than they really are so that the tendency to use the drug will be higher. As stipulated in the guidelines, quiet child who is categorized as social anxiety disorder or social anxiety disorder.

Children who tend to be quiet and withdrawn after feeling lost also categorized mental illness, namely depressive disorder or depressive disorder. Even children who are disobedient to their parents have its own title, ie interference against the rules or oppositional Defiant Disorder.


Sep 12, 2011

Playing is important for infant development

GladChild: If you include people who are busy with work while you have a baby, you should often take more time to play with your baby. When the play is one of the needs of children, and he deserves to get it. In fact, according to the UN Human Rights Committee, playing is the right of all children.

Forget to teach your baby and begin to play with him. While all parents want their children to be smart, you might ask, why even play is a very stressed to the baby. Because regardless of age, of course, when playing for the baby is a time where it can benefit the physical, social and emotional growth. Playing does not always mean using toys, but interaction with parents or caregivers are also very important.

Baby Developments

Baby you are exploring a new world every day and of course the child could learn something he did not know before. If you give the bracelet that can be rattled, then he will know that if he was moving his arms, the bracelet will sound. That way your baby has to learn about cause and effect, he knew that he could make things happen. When he started a little larger, than the 'Peek-boo' game he may know that you will just disappear for a few moments only, not for a long time.

While the physical game, can build bone strength and improve the health of your child. With a physical game, you can make your baby roll over, crawl or walk more quickly than infants who were not much involved physical activity with adults. Play also helps build your baby's confidence and baby social development. Furthermore, the play will also greatly help the brain development of children and encourage her to be able to imagine and the creation of more.

Talk with your baby

When playing with your child, you have helped him to learn many things, including teach it to speak. Read fairy tales, and plays using words or imitating animal sounds can help build your baby language skills.

Talk to your baby about everything. Explain what you do and why as you were talking with adults. Long before he knows what you're talking about, your child will learn the rhythm of your language. In time he will understand the meaning of certain words even though not yet able to say so myself.

Here are some ways to interact with your babies:
  • Playing with a lot of sound / words
  • Play music and sing along
  • Read a book. Although the child did not understand his words, he will enjoy pictures with bright colors and the rhythm of your voice
  • Encourage your baby to play toys are brightly colored, which makes a lot of noise and has a different texture
  • Show your baby in glass
Would be much better if you could also bring the child to play on the floor, do not forget to make sure the surrounding atmosphere is safe for babies. In this way, he will learn how to hold his head while in the prone position roll over, sit up movement, crawling to walking. The more often he was on the floor, the sooner he is also able to perform the movements themselves.

The benefits of spa for babies

GladChild: Apparently, the spa is not only needed by adults because the baby needs it for health and growth. In addition, by doing a baby spa will also have a good body immunity, to avoid digestive problems and your baby sleep quality will improve.

Stages of the spa for a baby not much different from the spa for adults, but everything are given to the portions and functions tailored to the needs of the baby. Baby Spa is also important to detect early abnormalities of the body because the baby cannot complain to his parents when the body feels pain or sprain. By doing a spa, the baby's body will be "improved" sense of relaxation as well as a convenient and good for the development of his soul. Generally, a spa for the infant consists of swimming, bathing, and massage.

When swimming, a baby will be trained motor movements due to foot and his body will be twitching, but will also prevent respiratory distress. While in the bath, the baby will do relaxation as most kids today have higher stress levels. Remember, when your baby is swimming or bathing, water used should not be too hot as it can make the peripheral blood vessels dilated which reduce blood flow to the heart.

While infant massage on relaxation in addition to providing benefits will also help improve digestion and facilitate blood circulation to the baby. Generally, the baby often experience digestive problems when breastfeeding. With this massage, digestive problems called colic or bloating because the colon will be resolved will work as well as digestion.

A study conducted by the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, United States, revealed that the weight of babies born prematurely will increase by 47% after a baby spa massage as much as three times a day with duration of 15 minutes each, conducted over 10 days. This was due to stimulation of massage stimulates the vagus nerve of the brain which releases the secretion of food absorption hormones, including insulin. Besides massage is also known to release substances that are similar to serotonin, a neurotransmitter that can reduce pain and decrease stress hormones.

Even so, baby spa massage is as important as vitamin and mineral intake for babies should be done with proper technique in accordance with the child's growth phase. That is because the baby is still physically fragile and has a different sensitivity. Massage techniques are performed also not too hard because the baby's bones are still soft. Besides the massage should also follow the flow of blood circulation and metabolism.


Music can help to reduce pain in infants

GladChild: A recent study says that listening to music can reduce pain and provide therapeutic benefits for the baby who had to undergo medical procedures, including circumcision. 

Plays music for children and babies can soothe and stabilize some of the vital functions of their bodies, as reported Live Science. However, previous studies conducted did not provide strong evidence to support this claim.

In the latest study, researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada, reviewed the nine studies published between 1989 to 2006, included those of normal premature babies and infants. The researchers could not draw absolute conclusions from the trials because of population differences and differences in tests conducted against the population. In addition, in some experiments, tests conducted by not optimal.

However, they found preliminary evidence which the music has a beneficial effect when medical procedures take place in infants or children, such as blood sampling and circumcision. 

The researchers insist that it takes other experiments a more optimal for confirming evidence that music can provide benefits for children and infants who undergo medical procedures.


Sep 11, 2011

Signs of autism can be seen from the age of 1 year

GladChild: Recent research has found that signs of autism in children do not appear in children before they are 6 months old but will begin to emerge by the time they reach the age of 1 year.

Conduct detecting autism before the age of one year will not work because not yet known. Because this test involves testing on social behavior in children, until age 3, will be noted their ability to communicate, smiling, talking and making eye contact. If when he was 1 year old, children who suffer from autism, an experiment for the ability to communicate will decrease. But there is an increase on anything else.

Autism in children affects one percent of children in the United States. Researchers rely on the information parents about their child's achievement growth, but it is still difficult for many parents who requested the information. Parents should tell their children the differences experienced when that happens, do not be put off until it is missing.

What to do if you see signs of autism in your child?

If you suspect your child has a developmental retardation, promptly contact your health care provider for children with autism.
  • Visit the Autism Information Center.
  • Remember that some children need a little time to achieve their growth should be, maybe you one of them.
  • You can share your story and your experiences with other parents whose children have autism so that you will get a lot of information you need.

Sep 10, 2011

When do babies should start to wearing shoes?

GladChild: This question is actually a bit controversial among the pediatricians. Some pediatricians recommend that babies do not need to wear shoes until the age of 15 months. Others feel a child should start wearing first shoes after they began to walk. But somehow, you should see and consider where your baby to walk. If they just walk in the area around the house, then they do not need baby shoes for walking. But if they leave the house, you should put on their shoes, because you certainly do not want your baby's dirty bare feet exposed to cold or dirt in the streets.

Baby shoes protect the child from the heat of the sun, scratches, and bruises. But should you let your baby go barefoot if the opportunity arises. And do not let your babies wearing shoes too long.

If you purchase outdoor baby shoes for your baby, make sure the shoe size fit with their feet. Also make sure they remain free to move his legs. Whatever your decision, make sure that it is the best for your baby.

Do not force baby shoes just so they look funny. Let your baby go barefoot at home, and when they leave the house, make sure they wear soft soled shoes premises.


Rotavirus vaccine proven effective in preventing transmission

GladChild: Rotavirus is a disease common in children and can cause death in children. Recent studies have revealed rotavirus vaccine proved effective and provides broad protection.

Recently a rotavirus vaccine was introduced and has proved very effective and has some unexpected benefits. This is because the vaccine provides broader protection for children who received the vaccine and the people around him.

The researchers concluded that evaluate the vaccine is effective because the vaccine shown to reduce hospitalizations due to diarrhea patients in the hospital as much as 50 percent. This decrease occurred only after 2 years of the immunization program began.

This rotavirus vaccine provides protection against the patient's immediate hospitalization of children, older children, adults and the elderly, said researcher Ben A Lopman from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Lopman said that this vaccine also provides protection indirect or so-called herd immunity. This condition occurs because only a few people who took part in some infected people who are already vaccinated.

By doing rotavirus vaccinations in children, it will help stop transmission of the virus infection to siblings, parents and all other family members. The results of this study have been published online by the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

To better measure the effectiveness of this vaccine, need to do further studies should be conducted in areas where diarrhea caused by rotavirus disease is still a threat far more serious.

Rotavirus in children is the leading cause severe diarrhea that causes death in half a million people each year. More than 85 percent of these deaths occur in developing countries such as Africa and Asia. Children under 5 years old, mainly aged 6 months to 2 years are the age group most at risk.


Sep 9, 2011

How to make your home safe for babies

GladChild: Make homes safer for babies is very important. Every parent would want to create the safest environment for baby beloved, be it in the house though.

Having a newborn baby is very risky and need to be careful. If the child was aged 2 years and he certainly would be very nimble and fun to play with whatever is around him. Therefore, you should always be alert in watching the little guy. Maybe you already feel in control is quite strict in monitoring the activities of the small, but who would have thought if your child can do or play something dangerous around him, especially in the home.

When the child grows larger in order to pay more attention to the situation and security at home. Here are some tips on making homes safer for babies who need your attention and avoid in the house so that children do not play carelessly, among others:

Public, first make sure all the rooms contained within the house is not harmful to invite children to play. And make sure that every room in your home safe for your child. Put a cushion or a safety device that can cover the sharp objects or dangerous around the house. When buying toys, to also consider the placement of playground space.

Nursery, after you make sure each room with safe and then check back to the baby bedroom. To position the crib to sleep away from the lights, wiring, windows, and other decoration. Do not put stuffed toys in the crib or bed because this can affect the body motion is limited, so they can make it feel cramped and difficult to move. Inventories keep diapers in place like in a closet or drawer baby clothes. Keep children away from the reach of lotions, ointments, or anything harmful in order to avoid the child's play.

Electrical and wiring center, to avoid things that are dangerous when your child was in her room while playing, you need to watch too closely. Keep out of reach of the electricity or cable. If necessary to prevent it, make the cover of plastic material or fabric in any power centers so that children are not interested to play it.


Sep 8, 2011

Fever when the baby teething it just a myth

GladChild: Parents believe that when a baby is teething is usually accompanied by the emergence of a fever baby teething. Whereas children who grow teeth do not have to have a fever, a fever that arises could be an indication of infection.

Parents often blame a variety of diseases that arise as a result of growing new teeth, including fever. But the study found that the process of teething does not cause changes in body temperature.

People have believed the myth. Actually, ages 6 months to 3 years old children at risk of experiencing an increase in minor infections such as colds or flu can cause fever, said ike Morgan, chairman of the Oral Health Program Melbourne Dental School at the University of Melbourne, as quoted from The Conversation.

What temperature is a fever for a baby? Body temperature rises to 38 degrees Celsius, which indicates the presence of infection. But if the temperature reaches 39 degrees Celsius or more than an advanced indication of a serious infection.

While the baby fever symptoms during teething is very varied, some children do not have whatever the reaction, but most experienced swelling in the gums and cheeks are flushed.

Inconvenience that may arise in children when treated with a gel that can deliver drugs to relieve pain when teething. But if the baby is suckling so avoid its use because it can make baby numbness and difficulty feeding.

After the first tooth appears, should be brushed gently to protect it from decay and use toothpaste that contains low fluoride every day, said Mike.

Generally the teeth in infants known as teeth begin to form since the beginning of pregnancy (approximately 8 weeks after conception). This tooth is already in the jaw bone at birth, and later he will be pushed out when aged 6 months and have full gear when she was 3 years old.


How to apply discipline to your child

GladChild: Discipline should start from an early age, discipline for children is very important in this life, so they grow into successful people. But parents do not realize how they are in disciplining children was not right.

In making regulations often parents applying punishment is too harsh or even any regulations made with the aim of disciplining, but not serious in its implementation. One thing you have to remember, the purpose of discipline is not punishment, but it offers lessons to children to be responsible for what it does and how it's caused by their treatment of others.

You may never yell or raise the volume when the little rules he created. A research sociologist at the University of New Hampshire, Murray Straus, revealing yelling and threats can affect children's mental to trigger aggressive behavior in children. Thunder and threatening actions that would bring long-term psychological effects of the child, and usually only seen after they grow up.

Straus says children who grow up with disciplinary upbringing full of screaming, threats and severe penalties can result in lack of confidence or be a rebel. It is feared, namely, the child will do the same to their children someday. In applying discipline your child should not begin with violence, screaming or anger, and following some input to discipline your child:
  • Write down your rules along with consequences on a sheet of paper and stick it in the refrigerator or any place that allows for strategic and your child see it.
  • Make sure that your child understands the rules and consequences that you create. Explaining it with specific regulations, for example by saying "Hold your mama's hand when crossing the street." Or "If its 8 pm to sleep yes, will not sleep, woke up late tomorrow, loh."
  • Encourage your child to reread the rules when she broke the rules you have created. Do not forget to remind the consequences that he has received if it violates these rules.
  • Offer choices to your child, because after your entire child needs the independence and do not like things to curb it. This will grow the strength and control of the child and prevent a child from the rebels.
  • Do not let your child think he had broken the rules and must accept the consequences because you, or the volume you are not aware of rising, when seen against the rules. Make your child realize he deserves the consequences because he has violated the rules.
  • Remember to hold your emotions when the child committed an offense. Do not you shout, pull, yell or threaten. Children are more receptive to the commands "do" or "do" than "Do not do or do not do". Better to say what should be done of the child, such as "Speak slowly," rather than forbidden to speak.
  • You must be really consistent with the rules you create. If your baby should sleep eight hours a night, every night he must sleep at 8 pm.


Children's intelligence can be influenced by health care

GladChild: Health is an important factor underlying a person's life. Apparently a child achievement in school was also influenced by the health care they get.

Children who have access to health insurance are healthier and do well in school than children without insurance. Similarly, according to researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).

This study is the first time in the show directly the health benefits in children with so-called 'children medical home', namely the medical care that is easily accessible, comprehensive, coordinated, family-centered, compassionate and effective cultural.

If you can put the children to the children medical home, there is potential for huge profits. We found a strong relationship exists between high-quality medical care with improved health and involvement in school, said Gregory D. Stevens, PhD, reported by eurekalert on Wednesday September 7, 2011.

A children medical home is family-centered as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics is not a building or service, but approach in providing comprehensive primary care for patients.

Touted as the future of family medicine, medical homes and other patient care models reinforced with health reform after passed into law by the Law on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 in the U.S..

The study reported in the September issue of the journal Medical Care found that children enrolled in Healthy Kids programs tend to have a regular source of children health care and good handling. Children enrolled in the program for more than a year reported getting the best children medical home care.

Separate study published online by the Health Services Research found children who received home care medical fewer absences in school and get good grades in math and reading.

The researchers surveyed 4011 children from 21 of the 24 programs in the U.S. Healthy Kids, a program that provides affordable health insurance for children from low-income families who do not qualify for state insurance programs. The sample consisted mostly of children of low-income families in Latin America and the majority of Spanish-speaking families.


10 Reasons why you should not to Spanking your child

GladChild: You've probably seen a mother spanking her child because the child does not obey his orders or because the children make mistakes. Or maybe you yourself unwittingly ever spank your child because it would upset his bad behavior. Indeed the reason why you spank your children is to warn and discipline him so he would not misbehave and obey your commands.

In America alone, approximately 70% of parents spank their children as a way to discipline children. Apparently this is not a good way and correct. June 2002, The Associated Press launched a study from Columbia University. The researchers found, spanking children will have negative consequences for the child's behavior, including aggressive, anti-social attitudes, and problems with mental health.
Here are 10 reasons why you should not to Spanking your child:
  1. Spank children will just stop the child not to behave badly for a while. The reason why your child is behaving badly because he did not know how to solve the problem.
  2. Spanking the child will not teach it to behave well, but would only teach it not to get caught by her parents when she made a mistake. This will make the child can do the manipulating.
  3. Children will be given the punishment given to him, not remembering what wrong he had done. He will be a coward, and instead become someone who wants to do right.
  4. This will teach the child to resolve any problems by hitting. Should children be taught to accept, and solve a problem without violence.
  5. Hitting will only teach children to behave in an external control or solve problems with physical punishment. It will not teach kids to control themselves (internal control) in the face of something.
  6. Spanking may give mixed messages to children. Hitting a child who has grown will not matter much, but do not hitting a child are still small.
  7. Spanking your child will stop the development of his moral. It hit him will make him stop making mistakes, but he stopped doing this for fear of guilt will be punished again. Not because he wanted to do the right thing.
  8. Spanking your child will remove the child's sense of empathy. Empathy is sensitive to others feelings and feelings is the basis for moral development. Research has shown empathy a child will disappear when parents educate their children with anger and control, and not with affection.
  9. Spanking the child will only open the way to know the world of violence. Hitting is an aggressive act, and you will only show the child that you as parents, have been out of bounds.
  10. Spanking the child will not teach him good manners, but teaches how to yell, hit, manipulate and control someone with a growing fear in someone. It also means you have failed to teach discipline to your child.
One thing you have to remember, the purpose of discipline is to teach foster responsible for all the choices. There are still many other ways that you can use to teach discipline to your child. By saying gently, politely, support them with compassion, love and respect, is an effective way to grow a commendable attitude to the child. Teach child discipline to use affection is better than to teach discipline based on fear.


Sep 7, 2011

Chemicals radiation from plastic materials can disrupt child's brain

GladChild: Widely used plastic materials such as for wrapping or toys. But it should reduce its use, due to exposure to plastic chemicals can interfere with the brains of children.

New research conducted at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University reinforces concerns over the potential health effects of chemicals known as phthalates on children.

Phthalates or phthalate esters are chemicals that are added to the plastic material to increase flexibility, transparency and durability.

Clinically, phthalates known to disrupt the endocrine system and is widely used in a wide variety of products ranging from plastic toys, household building materials, to shampoos, as quoted from medicalxpress.

This study is the first time examined the relationship between pregnancies with exposure to phthalates and the tendency of mental problems, motor skills and child behavior in preschoolers.

Overall, the researchers found that exposure to two types of phthalates significantly increases the likelihood of delay in motor skills development as well as the potential problem of fine and gross motor coordination of children in the future.

For women, phthalates risk is significantly lower mental development. Exposure to phthalates from pregnancy-related problem behaviors, including reactive emotional behavior, anxiety disorders, depression and withdrawal.

Our results suggest that prenatal exposure to phthalates during adverse mental condition of the child, interfering with motor development and behavior for years, said Dr. Whyatt, clinical professor of Environmental Health Sciences.

Dr. Whyatt said that phthalates disrupt the endocrine system affecting hormone in the body. These substances also reduce the production of testosterone, which plays an important role in brain development.

The results of a study published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives are increasingly raising concerns about the risk of phthalate exposure during pregnancy.

The study involved 319 children born of women non-smokers during 1999 to 2006. Researchers led by Robin M. Whyatt, DrPH, deputy director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health.

Metabolic measurements of four kinds of phthalates conducted using samples of maternal urine as a marker of prenatal exposure. The four phthalates were: in-2-ethylhexyl phthalate, di-isobutyl phthalate, di-n-butyl phthalate and butylbenzyl phthalate.


Sep 6, 2011

How to develop your child's social skills

GladChild: Exactly how your child learns to bond with the people around him? How and when your child is also beginning to find friends? All of this turns out to start from you. As parents, you are the first friend for your child. You will become his closest friend. Through you anyway he can later find other friends. Your relationship and your child is basically a starting point for the development of child social skills.

In the age range of 0 to 12 months, in outline the development of your child's social skills that are important are as follows.
  • As a social creature who had just been born, your child is happy to be touched, held, hugged, cuddled and given a smile. He also began to love to see your face, and even mimic a number of motion your body. Try not ever stick out your tongue and observe whether he had come to imitate as well.
  • At level three months of age, most of your child's waking hours will be spent to see what's going on around him. At the age of three months he'll probably release the first smile to you. Interaction with you then takes place through this smile.
  • In the age range of 4 to 6 months, your child will be more open to the presence of new people around him. He would greet them with an excited voice. However, those closest to him still remains, namely the mother and father. The most enthusiastic reaction is always directed to both, a sign of a deep bond.
  • Around the age between 7 and 8 months, your child will learn how to truly connect with others, especially his age. Your child will begin to interact with other children in the street together, sometimes accompanied by smiles and chatter of voices or sounds that imitate other children. Your child starts to feel too frightened to people who are not known and could sense when his condition was alone.
  • Ending the first year, your child starts to show antisocial conditions, such as crying when you leave him or feel nervous, uncomfortable when he was in the arms of someone other than your spouse.

Some of the therapies for autistic children

GladChild: Autism children symptoms are a condition where a person can not form a social relationship and communication is normal at birth or in infancy. Prominent symptoms of children with autism are an attitude that tends to disregard the environment and the people around him, as if refusing to communicate and interact, as well as live in his own world. Children with autism also have difficulty understanding the language and communicate verbally. These symptoms begin to appear at birth or while still small, usually before a child aged 3 years old.

However, do not necessarily think of an autistic child as a fool. If not treated immediately, an autistic child will have mental retardation, with IQs under 75. But they also potentially have high IQs tend to be a genius even if getting intensive therapy and good, except that their potentials are generally not monitored.

Autism symptoms can not heal by itself. Most parents assume that the child will heal itself with age, but that's not true. There may be some of the symptoms reduced, but many were in fact symptoms persist, escalate, and even create new symptoms that were not originally there. Autism children are not visible in the near future, but eventually will be more visible. Here are some therapies that can be applied to children with autism in people with autism.

Medicines autism therapy
This therapy is not to be a lifetime, but only used to reduce or eliminate some of the symptoms alone. The main medicines used to control behavior that tends to screw up so that the child is easier to treat. These drugs are useful to help children concentrate, causing eye contact and increase interaction with the environment. Later, this drug dose is gradually lowered until the minimum limit and can be added if problems arise later on.

Diet autism therapy
In children with autism tend to hyperactivity, can be a diet on foods that contain sugar, yeast, wheat, caffeine, food preservatives, flavors, ingredients and fat.

Occupational autism therapy
This therapy is done to train the muscles are stiff or weak, such as can not hold a ballpoint. Occupancy therapy will help the child to develop coordination and physical strength of nerve, so that he can do something with certain tools or without tools.

Speech autism therapy
Typically, people with autism suffer from speech and language disorders. This therapy should be done directly by the experts.

Behavioral autism therapy
This therapy teaches the child to understand the command. If the child did what was asked correctly, then give him a compliment. But if he did wrong then give him a penalty, but not physically. The commands are given for this therapy is also not a complicated command, but that is simple and easily understood by the child.

Therefore, parents must also have knowledge about the treatment of children with autism through training and hands-off just like that. However, active participation of parents will help cure the child.

Benefits of playing while learning for your child

GladChild: As a good mother, you would never think to provide education for your children even though they have not entered the school age. It is not wrong for parents to give their children education as early as possible. But, parents need to know how to provide appropriate education for their children.

Children who are 3 years old are able to perform various movements such as running, jumping, throwing, and so on. Parents should be able to give them the opportunity to perform playing safety activity. Children aged 4-5 years tend to be quieter than children whose age is under them, they also need the exercises so that these children be more active.

Parents do not really need to demand too much so that the child is able to master anything beyond the ability of the child. Usually children pre-school age has not been able to perform movements that are accompanied by certain rules. They tend not to explore the capabilities of potential if it is restricted by the rules.

Here are some useful tips for parents to child development and education of children in pre-school age. Make sure that the child has a chance to play with balls and toys that stimulate children to move. The ball can be provided from a variety of sizes and weights. Through playing with a ball, children will learn how to throw, catch, and kicking. For younger children age, provide a tool that can be laid out like a seesaw, ladder, slide, and tunnel. As for older children should be given the balance board and various tools for climbing.

By the time the child was 5 years old, need to be given the opportunity to play jump rope to train movements and balance the body. Lots of fine motor movement activities to learn muscle control, for example: drawing, cutting, pasting, sewing, and so on. A child who is at the sensory motor stage of development requires a variety of experiences by touching, holding, touching, tasting, and exploring.

Explore how children like banging a toy on the floor, wiggling it’s, rolled, and put the toy into his mouth. Exploratory behavior is the way a child knows a thing or a new toy. Parents need not worry if their children do so, but surveillance remains to be done carefully to avoid something in the child. Give children a number of pieces with various shapes, and sizes, colors. Encourage your child to group pieces based on color, size, and shape.

Sep 5, 2011

Children who experienced physical abuse susceptible to cancer

GladChild: Children and adolescents who experienced physical abuse are most likely at risk for cancer than children and adolescents who have never experienced physical abuse. Research conducted by the University of Toronto found that 49% chance of developing cancer in the adult body associated with the physical child abuse experienced in childhood.

Chairman of the research team, Esme Fuller Thompson says a lot of possibilities that connect between the physical child abuses with the development of cancer as adults, but have not found a good reason to explain it. One theory suggests the increasing levels of stress can increase the cortisol hormone, where this hormone will suppress the immune system, so it is not able to detect and destroy cancer cells.

Research that takes data from the Canadian Community Health Survey also found an association between abuse experienced in childhood and cancer diseases with their habits as adults, children start to smoking and drink alcohol. However, Fuller-Thompson stressed that most children who experience physical abuse is not likely to get cancer, but more research needs to be done to explain why people with higher levels of cancer in children.