The atmosphere we are living in is not free from threats. There are many contaminating viruses, microbes and other micro-beings which can enter our body through the respiration system and affect our health badly. A grown up is saved from such threats because his immune system is fully developed and able to fight against those viruses. But in a child, the immune system is also in developing stage and unable to fight much. In this way it is a duty of the parents to provide a clean and healthy environment to their child.

Food and nutrition also play a significant role in the all round developement of a child. As the child is experiencing a continuous developement upto his juvenile, a continuos supply of healthy food and nutrition is very necessary for him. For a newborn child breastfeeding is very much necessary since that milk contains very highly healthy nutrients, protiens and some other essentials which are very necessary to boost his immune system. During the age of 8 years to 16 years children specially need food full of protiens, vitamins and fibre as their body is developing and now they also need more energy to meet the energy loss which is because of increased physical activities as compared to a child below 8 years.

For children of all ages a healthy diet consisting protiens, all the necessary vitamins and fibre is highly recommended. Salad, green vegetebles, sprouts, pulses, egg, milk, curd are some compulsary articles which must be given to children in order to confirm a healthy diet. Supplements could be given to the children who need more nutrients than the supply limit of a daily diet plan or to those who doesn’t take healthy diet properly. National resource center for health and safety has some guidelines for the food and safety. parents can check those guidelines on internet and follow them.

Child safety is also a matter of graver concern. It consists safety from allergic atmosphere or things, household articles etc. Nowadays the toys are also consisting very dangerous chemicals which can harm a child badly. Apart from employing personal safety for children, parents can get child safety tips from child safety books and kids internet safety sites. Other child safety rules like safety from strangers etc should also be taken into account.

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In all sincerity, pairs and sickness can hardly be isolated by parent. This sometimes causes psychological stress for parents to watch over circumstance that they can not be altered. Yet we must not leave our child alone in that illness of this.

The most reasonable thing for us to do is to stay put with our child in order to show affection and reassurance of love towards them. Beginning from the examination of the fever, we offer them Tylenol as an antidote against aches and fever being agent of cold. Take a conscience record of the exact time so that you can repeat the process of dosage 3 to 4 hours or as prescribed until everything normalize.

Thereafter, lunch the next assault on the cold by making sure that your child sip good quantity of liquids in order to force out the germs. Better still; the liquid can even be in varieties of fruit juices. Let part of it be frozen inside the ice cube tray to be included in this juice his drinks.

Besides, chills come with fever, hence there is need to fully fold blanket round our child. Aside from medications, sleep contributes largely to healings on human body. To motivate your child for rest, you can always lie beside him or her. Allow his or her body to confront and overcome the cold with your encouragement.

You can follow the following suggestions for have rest:

• Watch movies in his or her company while you lay down very close
• Sing melody to him or her and listen to musicals jointly
• Pick an interesting book or stories together
• While in the centre of your bed together, motivate your child to have enough sleep.

Nausea can prevent a sick child from eating. Don’t ever keep away nutrition from him or her and ensure that he or she eat food. Make available light foods that aid digestions, the food that are very rich in calories and protein at least for his or her quick recovery.

Other lessons to teach our child during their illness include:

• Regular cleaning of his nose with toilet papers
• Clean his hands whenever he rubs them with sneeze and cough
• Protect his ace with cover during the coughing and sneezing
• Let his or her take liquid following his rough

Parent must be well equipped with experience and we can even be proactive in stopping cold in child. By routine, you can be giving them Tylenol, cool sponge baths, cold compresses on the forehead. Nutrition and handful snacks, liquids with motivating relaxations are combined to solutions that ensure complete restoration of your child’s fitness and well being. Do not forget to consult your doctor after three days of medication with noticeable improvement.

Finally, ensure that your first aid box is loaded with adequate child recommended drugs for fever. Please keep these away from the each of your children.

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Today, children are really pressurized as far as academics are concerned. Sports help their mind and body to relax. Sports helps children develop physically which is so important especially when child obesity is becoming a growing concern for most parents.

Children in schools today are increasingly overburdened with academics. Most parents make all efforts to get them to excel at studies. However, going with the popular saying, ‘all work and no play’ is not necessarily the best strategy to improve your child’s performance at school. Because sports involve teamwork and coordination, it develops a child’s brain to perform in a team.

Sports lets you experience the joy of winning at the same time it teaches you how to face your failure when you lose and how to learn from your mistakes. Participation in sports teaches children to cultivate a never say die spirit and single-mindedly pursue their goals. Each time your child wins a game; he will experience a thrill and will want to surpass his own records. Gild children should be equally encouraged to play sports as boys should. Playing a competitive sport will help your children to work against their own limitations.

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In some children, tonsillitis can be more frequent. It happens because of enlargement of the tonsils. This can happen even 6-7 times per year and this condition is called as chronic tonsillitis. The symptoms of tonsillitis are ear ache, mild to severe throat pain, fever, headache, swollen lymph glands and difficulty in swallowing. Parents need to be very careful when child shows these symptoms. They need to take certain steps to treat their child. Parents should remember that normally antibiotics are only effective if the problem is caused by bacterial infection. In case of viral tonsillitis, taking antibiotics can further aggravate the problem. Doctor must be consulted for proper medication.

Apart from consulting doctor, parents should make child gargle warm water with salt mixed in it. Warm drinks prove to be very helpful in tackling tonsillitis. Warm drinks could be tea with honey or soup. Spicy foods should be avoided and foods must be soft and easy to swallow. No one should be slowed to smoke in the vicinity of child. The last resort could be removal of tonsils through tonsillectomy.

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Mother’s milk is considered the most nutritious. It is also important to get the baby attuned to semi solids after 6 months. Mashed items like potatoes, boiled peas, tomatoes and bits of cheese can be looked as an option. Weaning is more of an emotional adjustment for the child. Try to reduce feeds slowly rather than totally cutting it off.

During the scheduled time of feed distract the baby with walks or watching some nature. Love the child and hold her close so that they do not feel any emotional deprivement. In case you are working then instruct the care giver to make entertainment more high during the period of weaning.

Usually children cry a lot and out of frustration mothers succumb to feeding. But this may not actually work. A bit of tender care and distraction is the best for your child. Scheduling chores and making time is very important during weaning as the child may be irritable or cry incessantly. This is a normal phase of growth for the child as well as a parent and hence mentally parents need to be stronger.

Healthy foods like soups, juices in small quantity will eventually make the child love semi solids. There are teething biscuits or chewable food for the newly emerged pearly whites. Weaning the baby totally is a gradual process and night feeds are the most difficult part of the process.

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Parents must look out for certain signs that will need urgent medical attention. Symptoms like bluish skin color, fever with rash, trouble in breathing, unwilling to take enough fluids and returning of flu like symptoms will require immediate medical attention. Sore throat, body ache, vomiting, diarrhea etc have been found to be associated with swine flu.

Some of the essential steps that must be taken by concerned parents should include, covering nose and mouth with a tissue while coughing or sneezing. The tissue must be thrown in the trash after the use. Make sure the child washes his hands on regular interval. Hands must be washed with water and soap. Washing is very important in preventing this disease. It must be done before eating, after eating or after touching anything that is not clean. The bottom-line is hygiene factor should be the utmost priority. One can also use alcohol-based hands cleaners for better effects.

Keep a check on the kids whether they are frequently touching their eyes, mouth or nose. Teach them to avoid these steps as germs spread that way. Contact with sick people must be avoided. Most of the times, the influenza spreads because of close contact with sick people who are frequently coughing and sneezing. It will also be a good idea to get in touch with your child’s school and enquire about school’s plan for pandemic influenza. There is no better time than now to take the safety measures.

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A lot has been said about exercise but as parents we can only instill this with a bit of effort. Schools are also evolving many techniques in yoga and games so that the children are adequately given exercise in a systematic format. Roller skating or dance classes are also a wonderful way to let the child utilize his or her free time so that the habit of being a couch potato is also avoided.

It is true that at times kids give us mixed feelings of either being greatly interested in an activity or just prove their declining interest. Crying or creating a tantrum before going to an activity class can be avoided if we prepare them for an event. Make interesting pictures or concoct a story of a healthy child before you enroll your child in any kind of physical activity class. Help the coach improve his bonding with the child.

Growing pains are very common in children. Often children complain of aching legs or muscles and with a bit of care they almost outgrow the same. The best reason why kids require exercise is that it stimulates their hunger and a well nourished child is also a happy child. Kids love to bond and learn from older students. Their morale is high during accomplishments in athletics or gymnastics.

An hour of exercise in the evenings is more than enough for them. Combine skating with artistic classes to make them like the sport. If the kids love to dance, arrange for hip hop classes in your building club under the guidance of an expert. They love to display their sport and exercise benefits their growth in terms of mind and body.

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Surprisingly, too much cold can lead to a heat rash that can aggravate the problem of acne. This is because the baby may be kept in the house for long hours while the heaters may be on. Hence cover up your child well and take him/her outside to breather fresh air. Make sure you remove the extra covering when back to the house again.

Clean your baby’s skin with luke-warm water and mild gentle baby soap. Try and check for yourself to make sure that the water is neither too cold nor too hot. After the bath, apply the essential baby oils and gentle cream to keep the skin soft and supple. If skin is extra dry, apply the cream twice a day. However, do not apply extra oils because it can worsen acne. In case of rashes that do not disappear even after a considerable amount of time, consult a doctor. Needless to say but make sure you buy all kinds of woolen baby clothes to keep them warm.

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Exercises for the next three months are related to your baby’s hands and feet. There are games available in the market that have kick and play sensors located under a bouncy chair. The moment your baby kicks, the toolbar lights up and music starts playing. Eventually your child will start understanding the cause and effect relationship between the kicking and the lighting and will enjoy kicking to watch the lights.

Some other exercises include the finger pull exercise. Make your baby lie down on his back and give him your two fingers. When he catches them successfully, smoothly lift your hands. Most of the times your baby will leave your hand quickly, but as you further play he will hold tighter and hang on for longer.

When your baby turns 6-7 months old you can try the sit up exercise. But he can still enjoy the exercise. You have to be very careful while helping your baby perform this exercise. Make him sit on a bed and leave him. But make sure your hands are just a couple of inches away from his body. When he inclines to one side, tenderly help him sit upright again. This will help your baby learn how to balance himself.

These simple but important physical activities help a baby grow fit and learn the basics of walking, crawling and balancing quicker.

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A new born baby cannot do anything by himself. But he is definitely learning all the time. For example he is learning to control his neck muscles, his head muscles and his ends. Till he turns three months old there are a couple of exercises you can help him do.
First of all, try the knee bend exercise. Take your infant’s feet and tenderly push his knees to his stomach. Then unbend his knees and push them back to his stomach again. Continue doing this. After repeating this a few times, you may observe that your baby begins to push back at you. This is all right; however don’t force his legs to bend.

The next exercise would help your baby lift his head. Lay your child straight, adjacent to your shoulder. In this pose, your baby can try raising his head, even if only for a second or two. You should give him good support along his back so he cant fall doesn’t fall down backwards.

The next exercise can help babies of all ages. Place your child, facing downwards on a comparatively firm surface. You can use foam floor mats for this exercise. Maybe during the first few months your baby won’t do react to this position, but as he grows a little older, he will try to turn his head from one side to other. He will also try lifting it up. In due course, he will push himself up on his forearms to look around.

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