Showing posts with label child education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child education. Show all posts

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.


Sep 6, 2011

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 2, 2011

Positive impact of playing video games for children

GladChild: Many articles and writings that says that video games provide a bad influence on children's development. However, some researchers argued that the opposite of the effect of video games for children they argue that video games are simply a medium, if used wisely it will have a positive impact.

One of the UK Cabinet Secretary, Tom Watson suggested that children playing video games. According to him, the kids will get more valuable lessons from the video games than watching television. Tom Watson, said that by playing video games, children can learn to train the mind, concentration, challenge, and adapt to changes around them.

The same was expressed by several researchers from the University Of Rochester, New York, United States who conduct research on the positive impact of gaming. The results of their study of people aged 18-23 years stated that a person who plays the game will focus more on what is happening around them and more visual ability is increased when compared with people who do not play games. Children who play video games will develop skills in reading, math, and problem-solving.

In addition, by playing games, inadvertently coordination between eye and hand can be better trained. Another opinion from Mark Griffiths, a professor at Nottingham Trent University, UK, stated that by playing games can ease and even distract from the pain suffered by a child who is in a period of treatment, such as chemotherapy. By playing games, the pain will be reduced and blood pressure will also decrease. Moreover, according to game play is also good for the physiotherapy of children who suffered a hand injury.

Yet experts agree that children who play video games should still be accompanied and supervised by their parents. Parents should be able to provide explanations and information about what is played by children - his son and limit if the child is too old to play video games because somehow the exaggeration results will still not good.


Aug 27, 2011

A simple way to improve child intelligence

GladChild: Social interaction and stimulation of sensory function optimally can increase the child intelligence. Here are five simple ways to grow your baby smarter.

1. Invite your child to walk out

Frequently asked baby walk out the door. His eyes will see many colors, skin will feel the temperature change, and he will learn to adapt too many people. Strolling in the mall does not matter, but preferably more often took him to the park or garden that has a fresh air.

2. Washing activity

Every now and then invite your toddler in washing activities. Toddlers learn a lot by that activity. You can take baby aged three years to bring his dirty clothes to wash, and then asked him to turn on water faucets. In addition to fun, a number of senses your baby is also stimulated by new experiences.

3. Asked many questions

When your baby busy playing, interspersed with a number of minor questions such as how the voices of animals. Before eating, you can also ask for the baby to smell the food. Ask how the aroma. That way the brain and the sense of smell aroused.

4. Storytelling

Your voice for the baby is more appealing than a robot or a puppet voice had bought for him. Toddlers prefer that parents tell stories or sing to her. They will feel entertained and it makes the information that you can be absorbed easily. Storytelling is not just storytelling, but also a learning process for children. They can get new information through the story. They also can learn the gestures and voice narrator.


Jul 31, 2011

Hitting a child will make their behavior worse

GladChild: Hitting children is a way of punishing is not recommended for any parent. The study found hitting a child can reduce the emotional intelligence and make their behavior worse.

The researchers found the penalty hitting a child can reduce the emotional intelligence and executive function skills (ability to think and modify their behavior when necessary) compared with children receiving non-physical punishment.

Constant child physical punishment can make children less disciplined because of declining executive ability. Although in the short term these children may behave discipline to avoid being hit, but in the long run the child's behavior will only get worse.

Researchers from universities in the United States and Canada are warning parents not to give physical punishment to their children, because the benefits only in the short term only.

The study monitored 63 children from two private schools in West Africa are aged 5-6 years. One of the schools use corporal punishment for students who commit violations, while other schools use non-physical punishment such as warning and out of the classroom.

The study results are reported in the journal Social Development shows that children do not get physical punishment significantly value-tasks higher than children with physical punishment.

The environment with harsh punishment is likely to have long term adverse effects of verbal intelligence of children and executive function abilities, said study author Professor Victoria Talwar of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, as quoted by the Telegraph on Friday July 29, 2011.

Prof. Victoria said the study suggests that physical punishment does not teach the children how she behaves or enhance learning, but rather a negative effect.

In the short term may not have a negative effect, but if done from time to time, this condition will not help the children in problem-solving skills and actually inhibit their behavior becomes inappropriate, he said.

Jul 11, 2011

Signs of children who have difficulty in learning

GladChild: Children who experience learning difficulties often make parents stress and get a bad seal at the school. But parents need to realize that children who have difficulty learning in children are not a disease and this can be handled.

Learning difficulties is not a disease but a sign of children brain development that is still less than optimal.

Some characteristics that indicate the child has difficulty in learning:
  • Grades arbitrary
  • Difficult set of activities or goods
  • Easy to forget
  • Often loses things
  • Daydreaming
  • Careless and inaccurate
  • Not motivated to learn
  • Quitter
  • It's hard to sit quietly for long periods of time
  • Many spoke
  • It's hard to wait their turn
  • Like mischievous, fun and impulsive
Even so there are things that should be avoided because it will not help children overcome learning difficulties such as:
  • Scold, punish or humiliate
  • Labeling or negative designation
  • Increase training and tutoring
  • Lure prize
But parents need not worry as learning difficulties can be addressed. What can parents do?
  1. Accept the existing situation, in this case is not silent, not denying, stop blaming yourself, others or God, and stop crying over yourself
  2. To examine whether psychological, motor, neurological, eye, ENT and Allergy
  3. Committed 100 percent to undergo therapy program and change the mindset and parenting
  4. Striking a balance between affection and discipline
  5. Giving praise
  6. Avoiding negative labels
Meanwhile, teachers can also play a role by providing a fun learning atmosphere such as using visual, auditory or practice, using the child's interest in providing samples, providing a clear target, giving a positive statement as well as an inspiration.

Jun 28, 2011

10 Characteristics of Gifted Children

GladChild: Many parents give their infants the latest toys. However, most toddlers will look genius only in the eyes of his parents. There is also a toddler who had been gifted from birth.

How to track your child's talents? Here are 10 characteristics of gifted children:

1. Collecting Information
The phrase Go out right ear left ear, look common to all children. But for those who have the intelligence to be able to capture a variety of information and tell the future.

National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) gives an example. A child 6 years of age who had just returned from a trip to the museum were able to describe accurately sees space rocket.

2. Sense of interest in the area
Gifted children generally showed interest in various topics. They may like dinosaurs in a given month, the space next month and so on.

3. Writing and Reading Early
If your child is a toddler that smart, he will be able to read and write at an early age with no previous formal education.

4. Talented in the Field of Art
Children who show unusual talent in art or music and other, sometimes believed to be a blessed child. Toddlers who are able to draw something obvious, capable of making the perfect line or illustrate a high level of understanding of art is generally categorized as gifted children.

5. Concentration showed that there really
Children are known to dislike the old concentrate. But if your child including who like to concentrate or interested in something with a long period, then the child can be regarded as a gifted child.

6. Got a Good Memory
Some toddlers who are gifted are able to remember something well since they were small. For example, two year olds are able to remember and retell the events since he was age 18 months.

7. Got an Advanced Vocabulary
Toddlers who are able to speak at an early age may not be included in the signs of talent. But if your little one can use the advanced vocabulary and sentence, so he was smart as you think. For example, according to the NAGC, if the child at the age of two years generally makes the sentence, "There is a Dog." So two years of a gifted child will be able to make a long sentence. Like, "There is a brown dog in the back garden and he was sniffing the flowers we are."

8. Attention to Detail
Gifted child who has attention to detail, older children more likely to want to know specifically how the way things work. While younger children will be able to put back where he picked up his toys or he knew something was moved from its original location.

9. In accordance with her wishes Applicable
In general, children are not too concerned with him or others, unless the friend has something he wants. Not with gifted children, they care about others and are also highly consider this him.

10. Understand Something Complex
Toddlers who have high intelligence have the ability to understand something complex, concerned with relationships and think abstractly. They are able to understand the problem deeply and think of solutions.


May 21, 2011

How to Teaching Ethics in Children

GladChild: Every parent wants their children are able to be full time socializing with environmental ethics. Provide ethics for child education early on because it is not too early or too late for this.
One important thing to understand that when parents teaching ethics or correcting the child, try to never embarrass them in public. Here are eight tips on how to teaching ethics in children:
  1. Being a good example. No fair if you expect decency of children, if you do not apply the same behavior.
  2. Teach them gradually, because the understanding and ability to continue to grow. Maybe there would be no point in asking children 2 years to stop chewing with your mouth open. Because, he does not have an understanding and physical coordination to comply. However, in children 4 or 5 years old, he already has the ability to understand the reasoning behind the rule.
  3. Start using words and phrases, like "please", "thank you", "excuse me", "sorry", and "Could I?" As early as possible when speaking near your child. Encourage them to do the same.
  4. Carefully select the word you say when it was near the little guy. They imitate the way adults talk.
  5. Also taught the basics of other ethics. Children must learn how to shake hands, show respect to parents, behave calmly in public places, and not disturb other people in conversation. He also must learn not to play with the goods of others unless permitted.
  6. Avoid ignoring bad behavior, or waiting to talk about it. Remind or create a rule immediately after the child made a mistake.
  7. Behavior rises more personally so you can discuss it more thoroughly and make sure your child understands how to behave in the future.
  8. Praise your child for good behavior.

May 15, 2011

Tips for Your Child to Learn Brushing Teeth

GladChild: Inviting children require diligent toothbrush need a special tricks. Teach and make it a habit to brush your teeth start early so that later became a habit.
  1. Prepare toothbrush equipment. Before children begin to learn to brush your teeth, brush your teeth provide the child whose head is relatively small, which is 1.5 cm with the same length of hair brush, soft bristles and a handle is wide enough and thick ..
  2. Dab toothpaste. When children are older than 2 years, select a special toothpaste that contains fluoride for children safe when ingested (usually this information is listed on the packaging). Dab toothpaste on the brush size of peas, or brush a thin layer of the tooth. When Children are 1-2 years old, learn how to brush your teeth can be done without using toothpaste, to avoid swallowing toothpaste containing fluoride is too much.
  3. Give examples of brushing motion. Stand with your children in front of a mirror located above the sink. Ask the toddler holding his toothbrush and watched the example simple movements that you do brush your teeth. Given the fine motor skills, children will not develop optimally, usually the child has difficulty in controlling the movement of brush his teeth properly. Because of that, just give examples of basic movements brush your teeth.
  4. Practice with the mother. Now, from behind the toddler hold his hand and point the brush his teeth into the tooth to be polished. Ask him to imitate how you hold and move the toothbrush. For the little one just learning to brush your teeth, use the Bass method, namely to put the hair brush at an angle of 45 degrees and then move to the left and right slowly. If your child is older, teach brush your teeth with Fone method, ie brush rotate, and then Leonard method of brushing motion upwards and downwards. Make brushing motion with your baby as the easiest method and is able to do.
  5. Gargling. When finished brushing your teeth, ask your toddler to rinse with boiled water to avoid the risk of diarrhea due to germs and dirt that may be contained in the raw water if ingested.
  6. Done. Finally, ask children to clean the remnants of toothpaste foam around his mouth stuck with boiled water. To cultivate the habit of brushing your teeth in small, when you're done, give him gifts. For example, kiss my dear, warm hug, or in the form of small objects that are useful. For example, a toothbrush-shaped headgear funny animal head or a new toothbrush shaped funny and interesting color.
Should Tongue Cleaned? Yes! Because, at the toddler tongue sticking pretty much the rest of milk or food. Teach children in aged 4-5 years, ie by gently brushing the surface of the tongue using a toothbrush after he brushed his teeth.

May 14, 2011

10 Tips to Make Children Like to Reading

GladChild: Children tend to choose activities that are fun and exciting than reading, but reading is an activity that can add insight and knowledge on the child later. But if you can create a fun and exciting atmosphere then they will be eager to start the activity.

Famous children book writer, Peter Corey, suggests one key to success for reading activities can be fun atmosphere is reading together with your child. Reading with your child is positive and educational activities, because these activities can increase your child reading interest.

Here are 10 tips to make children like to reading:
  1. Reading activities along with more effective when done 10-15 minutes each day. If you do not find the right time for a full day, then make use of the time before bed to read with your baby.
  2. Reading is a fun activity, so avoid forcing a child to read when the little tired because of many activities. Let him have the initiative to start reading.
  3. After reading is completed, you should use a little time to give an opinion, impression, the idea of the story and listen to what was read and then discuss. That way you can know whether he understood the contents of the books he read. That way you can know whether he understood the contents of the books he read.
  4. Use a facility that supports the story, like enjoy every picture in the book the story. Children will be easier to get an understanding with the help of pictures.
  5. Always choose a simple story, funny and interesting for children. When you need to choose a story book that became his favorite theme.
  6. The theme of the story of children books is very diverse. So buy the book in a bookstore a special section for children to find the theme interesting story.
  7. Simplify the use of the words you speak. Avoid reading long sentences and difficult intelligibility of children. If your child does not understand the storyline, then use everyday language that is more easily understood.
  8. Do not hesitate to judge a book by the cover and who the author. It can help you to decide whether the book is worth your purchase.
  9. Do not worry if your child wants to read the same book every time. Children usually enjoy the repetition of activities because it helps them to better understand the story.
  10. Give praise to your child who has been trying to read. Let him know what his mistake when reading. By doing so, he will be more perfect in reading.

Mother Role in Educating Children

GladChild: No one doubts the importance of the role of mothers in educates their children, affection and attention from a good mother has a huge effect on the child's personality. Attention and affection will cause a feeling of thanks in children and raise self confidence in their growth periods.

So great was the role of a mother in educating her children, it cannot be denied that the mother is the first school.

The process of education provided by a mother had carried out since the baby still in the womb. What mother listen to or read to the baby in the womb, then it will be heard also by the baby. Emotional and character of the mothers had to be transmitted through the behavior of a mother during pregnancy and parenting. In one study, for a mother who always has the feeling of wanting to contain the angry even then the child will grow up someday to have heart disease.

Education also can be provided with eye contact that occurs between mother and child. At any time, wherever and whenever this education process can be done. A mother has a big responsibility in creating a young generation of creative, innovative, educative and productive. It is a dream comes true if it was not painted by the gentle hands of a mother. And to make it happen, the knowledgeable, intelligent and devoted to who can do it. Damage to the morality of women is a contiguous chain with juvenile delinquency, the fragility of families and damage communities.

If a mother can understand and willing to perform duties and responsibilities in educating and directing children well, with all the guidance and example to children. God willing, will be born a generation that devout, superior and qualified, able to be responsible for themselves and their lives later.

But in reality many mothers who cannot perform its duties and responsibilities properly. Maybe there are some who are too busy with his career until sometimes as handed major responsibility for education to the school or the children who spend more time with caregivers who may be "less qualified". Or maybe there is a feeling surrender and despair in educating children because of lack of knowledge so confused does not understand what to do.

If this condition continues, educational and mental development of children who lack good parenting from a mother will be neglected so that the child's personality is either not achieved. Usually this child become bad behavior in both the family and society and if you have this completely wrongs of course not the child.

The number of suicide cases due to parental violence on children, indicating that children feel safe and comfortable in his family environment, this condition is certainly not a situation conducive to providing good education for children because their parents could not even be a role model good for them.

So the first thing that must be created by the family, especially by a mother is to create conditions conducive so that the constraint in educating children, directing them to the teachings of religion, creating a devout personality will be easier, because there is mutual trust and a strong bond of affection between Mother and child, from all the family.

Therefore, let us together to immediately begin educating children in a good way, in earnest and full of patience. If not, then it will be a mother the most to lose, that mothers who are waiting the arrival time of difficulty repeatedly. Because it has a rebellious child and may be often detrimental to many parties, including himself, other people are also parents.

May 11, 2011

Support Your Child Aspire to be a Scientists

GladChild: Great curiosity is capital of a child to become a scientist, although sometimes make other people the hassle. Parents are responsible for maintaining talent, not even scold if the child is too many questions.

Even when children like to idly flipping through a desk drawer for example, parents should not be angry though probably a lot of important stuff in it. We recommend that children would be accompanied, to jointly look at the contents of drawers to satisfy the curiosity of the child.

It is important for subsequent child development. The more diligent in finding out about anything that makes it curious, children becoming more confident.

Curiosity must be developed since childhood, do not be turned off because when it's too late teens. Teens when it's not difficult to develop self confident.

Children should be allowed to explore his interest as widely as possible through such curiosity. Parents should not be too direct a child will want to be all right, let the child determine appropriate interest and aptitude.

If their interests and talents begin to appear, then the parents can help guide but still not allowed to impose interest. If enforced, the child will be depressed mentality that psychological development will not be optimal for instance be less confident.

Managing Your Child Emotions

GladChild: Emotions can not only shed with anger. Emotions can also be shed through a variety of things that harm. Well, how anticipated this?

Emotion is not just a term that is associated with feelings of anger. Emotion is a feeling of someone who is addressed to another person or against something.

So, not only anger that can be said to be emotional, Emotions can also be shown when feeling happy about something, surprised by something, or afraid of something. As a parent, it is important to pay attention to children emotional because parents know that without balanced emotional intelligence can strongly influence the potential and future of the children in the future.

The children emotions shown in a different way that is why parents should be responsive to children emotions.

Because there are times when the child shows his emotions so that when parents respond quickly or emotional responsiveness of children, parents can consider what should be submitted to the baby by reading a few responses to children emotions.

Not only adults who have emotional, everyone including children, even babies have emotions. However, that little difference, infants or children may not understand the difference between having feelings and express them to behave in order to control his emotions.

Parents are still many who are not aware of emotions in children, even tend not to care. In fact, at that time children need attention.

This times not a few parents who care about children's emotions, good emotions when a child is angry, happy, or sad. And who should parents know, it can cause the child can not manage their emotions well. That way, is a negative impact on emotional development, including the impact on the formation of emotional mental.

In addition, parents can help children make decisions by providing support in a positive and forward the wishes and feelings of children. Also, understand that children's negative emotions is one of parenting that must be observed and performed by.

That besides the characteristics that already exist in every child, children emotional also can be influenced patterns of parenting, the condition of the surrounding environment, and experience that have been received.

May 6, 2011

How To Build Self-Esteem in Children

GladChild: As good mother of course we all know what is best for our children, because every child is unique, they have different needs, different abilities and talents, different qualities. Therefore, most parents understand the child is his own.

However, here are a few tips and tricks that might be useful for parents:

What should be done to build self-esteem in your child:
  • Love your child what it is, with all its pros and cons. Show them that you love him.
  • Be careful with your words, parents are human beings who make mistakes while of course also be angry, but try to always keep your word, because sometimes the words 'drop' can imprint on their hearts.
  • Give praise for their success.
  • Listen to it their stories, give sympathy for the problems they face.
  • Give encouragement to them to think for themselves and do the things they enjoy doing.
  • Give them a chance to do new things, do not rush to offer assistance.
  • Spend time with them, just relax and play, or swapping stories.
  • Give them age-appropriate responsibilities.
  • Teach them accountable for their actions, for example, apologize to your friend when you make a mistake.
Don’t
  • Do not just love him when he's doing things your own.
  • Do not compare children to others.
  • Do not build a catapult criticism, like: You lazy, useless, etc..
  • Do not blame the child for something you do.

May 1, 2011

When Your Daughter Start Asking Why Breasts Enlargement

GladChild: In teenage girls breast enlargement be early signs of the beginning of puberty. While this is a lot of questions about breast who wants to be known and curious. Whatever you curious?

Early puberty in girls is common in the age range 8 to 13 years. That the signs of early puberty in girls is a change in the breast enlargement.

Breasts will look started to grow, like a small hill with the nipple (areola) wide. This was followed by growth of pubic hair, body odor, acne, high acceleration and weight. When there are changes in the breast, often teenage girls want to know a lot about the sensitive organs.

Some questions about the breast that makes a lot of curious teenagers:

1. Why do women's breasts enlarged?
There are two factors that affect breast growth in women, namely nutrition and genetics. Breast growth will begin upon entering puberty. Pubertal hormones produced by the pituitary gland plays an important role.

One early sign of the beginning of puberty is breast enlargement as a result of increased estrogen production that is stimulated by pituitary hormones.

During the hormone estrogen continue to be released on the female body, will from the breasts continue to grow and maintain its shape. Can Also be Slightly Enlarged breasts in teenage girls to take birth control pills WHO pill estroge or replacement after menopause. During pregnancy the breast is Also Enlarged by the increase of in estrogen secretion.

Boys also often experience breast enlargement in the early stages of puberty.

2. When did women start to grow breasts?
At puberty, girls are often asked why his friend had started growing breasts while she has not. Breast enlargement is the beginning of puberty, generally in the range of ages 8 to 13 years.

Early puberty each child is different depending on many factors, including genetics, nutrition, activity, hormone levels and health conditions such as stress, etc.

3. How big is a normal breast size?
The size of the breast of every woman is different. In terms of health, there are no standards for breast size.

The size of the breast depends a lot of things, including family history, age, weight fluctuations, pregnancy and breast feeding history, thickness and elasticity of breast skin, hormonal levels in the breast and the menopause.

4. Are young women can get breast cancer?
Yes, although rarely occur during adolescence. Biggest breast cancer risk in women with age above 40 years or more.

5. Whether my breasts too small?
The size of the breast size can indeed be influenced by family history. But some health professionals to explain, other than genetics are still many things that can affect breast size.

Playing Puzzle to Train Your Children Visual Intelligence

GladChild: Play puzzle to train children concentrate because he had to concentrate when assembling pieces of the puzzle. Some of the children skills learn through this intellectual game.

The ability to hold and arrange things to make children aged 2 years could put the puzzle pieces. In addition, toddlers also have understood the forms of objects. Replacing the puzzle pieces means remembering a whole picture, then arrange the components into an image object. How children solve puzzles is the whole image using the method of trial and error. Color and shape pieces, two points to consider when setting up your children puzzle.

This game helps children practice visual intelligence. Children learn to understand the concept of form, color, size and number. In addition, play puzzle train children to concentrate because he had to concentrate when matching puzzle pieces. Not only that, this game is improving the skills of children solve simple problems.

Well, how to choose a puzzle for your children?
  • Give children age-appropriate puzzles and development capabilities
  • Simple shapes such as matching pieces of the body with pieces of the head, form glasses with glass lid, or the basic shapes (circle, square and rectangular).
  • Consists of 3 to 6 pieces of large size.
  • Made of safe and strong like a smooth wood or cardboard.
  • Choose a puzzle with a knob (button) to be easily held.

Apr 29, 2011

10 Ways to Teach Children to Save the Earth

GladChild: We all need care and love the environment, including your children can too! Moreover, children are the next generation who will live longer to enjoy the beautiful earth. Here are some tips about 10 ways to teach children to save the earth:
  1. Dispose of trash in its place. Flood disasters frequently happened lately can you make an example due to litter waste. Teach toddlers throw garbage in its place. Do not forget to provide the trash in some corner of the house, such as bedrooms, living room, and playroom in order to facilitate him to found the trash. Also provide a small trash can in the car junk food wrappers are not thrown into the street of course!
  2. Occasionally take your children along to clean it. Ask him to sweep or pick up leaves that fall to the ground. You can explain that the cleanse home page is a form of love in a clean environment. Ask him to count the leaves that have been collected, then piled the leaves are to be 'transformed' into fertilizer.
  3. Dog or pet rabbit is safe for children. They also can be trained to be companions for children. Like the friend, toddlers can be taught how to nurture, love and be loved animals. For example, feeding and drinking, bathing, playing together, stroking and not hit. This method is one of the tricks to teach children to love other living creatures outside the human.
  4. Come on, grow plants! Take advantage of a child who thirsts for experience and adventure together to plant crops. Teach them also to care for plants. When the plants will thrive, he can be a gift.
  5. Teach to saving water. By getting off the tap when brush teeth, toddlers learn to conserve water, as well as bathing. It's okay to bring a rubber duck, or toy to the bathroom, but small enough to prepare a bucket of water to play and do not give it again when the water is removed useless. Tell him; ducks can not swim again if the water is discharged continuously discarded.
  6. Bring own food and drinks. Buy snacks or snacks outside the home would be to use plastic packaging to be thrown into the garbage. Familiarize children bring lunch from home food and drinks. Or bring their own containers from home to bring food and drinks to be purchased later.
  7. Create toy from used cardboard. Encourage children to make a toy train of cardboard used. Other used goods, such as plastic bottles, plates and other Styrofoam another party could be a new item. Children also learn that the goods are practically useless if the waste could still be utilized.
  8. Carrying bags when shopping, creating the habit of plastic bag as a form of love with the environment is a habit that thumbs up. This transmitted to your child! When shopping at the supermarket or shop, also asked him to bring her favorite shopping bags. Groceries that light can you put in the bag, tell him you’re also allowed to carry our groceries. We do not have to wear plastic yes, because the plastic at home and have a lot of unused.
  9. Encourage children to love the environment by saving electricity usage. Teach things that are easy and simple, like turn off lights when leaving the room or do not turn on the lights in the daytime because the sun is illuminating. Or turn off the television directly to the source turn off non standby position when finished watching TV and computer when he was finished using it. The same teachings you need to apply also to save money on batteries in toys. Efficient energy consumption, also durable toys.
  10. Walk or ride a bike on the go. Many of the benefits when you invite children to walk or ride a bike. You teach him about reducing air pollution coming out of motor vehicle exhaust. Also, fuel economy and provide compelling experiences during the journey by watching the trees, streets and activities of others.

Apr 28, 2011

Playing With Children Adjust To The Gender

GladChild: Boys and girls differ from biological aspects, motor development, cognitive, social and personality development. When playing with them, parents need to notice these differences for the benefits of play, fun to play, and the quality of parent and child interaction, be optimal.

Here is a guide on the move according to the sex of the child and parents.
  • Dad playing with his son. While playing, the boys further develop gross motor skills. Movement and their activity levels tend to be higher than girls. It's the same with the trend properties of a father who agile, quick, strong and active activities. Activities that fit like, throw and catch, wash cars and camping.
  • Dad playing with his daughter. While playing with his little daughter, dad needs to differentiate their treatment in accordance with the physical character and personality of the general's daughter. Activities are suitable such as, discussion idol, swimming, and trips to the flower garden.
  • Mother playing with her daughter. The daughter loved the softness and the instinct to care for, where there's more skin to skin contact through caresses, hugs and kisses. Girls also like going to the beauty, neatness and organize something, which can be learned when he was on the move with his mother. Activities such as matching, dress up together, role play, and meronce.
  • Mother playing with her son. Mom can be a fun playmate for her son, provided the mother fit enough, not jaim (watch image) and are willing to dirty! Activities that fit like, play lego, doll's hand, and painting.
Activities are given to boys and girls can be the same, the only difference being the way with some.

Apr 23, 2011

When Children Learn To Walk

GladChild: As a mother of course you will be proud and happy to see your child's first steps while still being dragged. Do not know surrender, he tried to move again and again. Finally, with full confidence, he will be able to walk steadily. Home range area was more extensive and exciting.

Stand-vine-road walking is a very important milestone. The average child begins to walk at age 11-14 months. According to existing data, 3 of 5 children begin to walk at the age of about 12 months because of nerves and muscles needed to walk began to grow perfect. In addition, the bones of children's legs were long and strong enough to support his entire body, including the head as the center of gravity of the body. In addition, children must have the ability to coordinate the whole body and limbs, and balance training. When he was able to stand, that is when the child tries to propagate it will do the rest on objects that can support his weight, then move forward. When the creep period is completed, or he is capable of supporting its body with both feet, children will try to stand a few seconds and then fall. Do not know surrender, toddlers 1 year trying to hold until he grew steadily walked and walked.

Playing Music Can Improve Children's Intelligence

GladChild: Music classes for some children is not considered exciting and boring. But, the sacrifice to move the fingers on piano keys, guitar strings, flute, violin, or drum beat, it turns out useful in the future of children and can improve children's intelligence.

Research shows learning music from an early age are able to maintain the sharpness of a person's brain when they are adults. Provided that the activities carried out in a sustainable manner. The level of IQ is a better musician in old age, wrote American Psychological Association's Journal of Neuropsychology in the Daily Mail on Saturday April 23, 2011.

According to researchers from the University of Kansas, Brenda Hanna Pladdy, learning music from an early age to be able to train the cognitive abilities of older people. Your child brain is trained to fight premature aging, he said. So, children who know the music tends away from the risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

This research was conducted on 70 adults aged 60 to 83 years. As a result, their early musical training has a sharp memory than respondents who did not learning music. Music has a major impact on brain development, said Hanna.