Father and Child Development

In today’s article we are talking about father and child development. Is father necessary to care of his child or it is only the mother’s duty? How to inspire the father to participate in his baby’s development? Let’s try to find answers to these urgent questions.

Many women often face the fact that their husband is afraid to take the baby in his arms, refuses to stay alone with him, is not able to change a diaper. Being free not to care of his baby,the a father cannot have fun and joy of communicating with the small child and he really believes that the baby needs only the mother and his health and normal development depend only on her. But it is not true! Father‘srole in raising his child is great. His care, education and communication with the baby affect the physical, mental and intellectual development of the child.

Family as the Main Parenting Institute

Traditionally, a family is the main parenting institute. A child will keep everything acquired in his childhood throughout the rest of his life. The importance of a family as the main parenting institute is due to the fact that a child spends most of his life in it, and none of the institutes of education influences a person as long as his family does. Family lays the basis of child’s personality, and he is a half-formed person when it’s time to go to school.

A family can be both a positive and a negative factor of parenting. A positive impact on a child's personality is that no one but those closest people to him in his family, the mother, the father, the grandmother, the grandfather, the brother, the sister, do not care of the child and do not love him better and stronger as they do. And at the same time no other social institution can potentially cause so much harm to the education of a child, as his family can do.

Family is some kind of a team that plays a basic, long-term and important role in their child’s education. Anxious mothers often have anxious children, ambitious parents so often suppress their children that an inferiority complex starts developing in them; an intemperate father, being angry at the slightest provocation, unwittingly and often shapes the similar type of behavior in his children, etc.

Develop Creative Mind in Babyhood!

For a child’s life to be easier in his future, for him to easily solve different tasks, to find friends easily, to be interesting for other people, and so on, it is important to develop creative mind in babyhood. Let’s consider why.

     -   Do not talk nonsense!
     -   Let's be realistic!
     -   Stop inventing!
     -   Do like all people do!
     -   Slow down!
     -   Be serious!
     -   Do not laugh!

How often we have heard these words from significant people to us, and how we were totally confused for a long time, were deprived of the ability to move on, were deprived of creativity. And what is creativity? It is a process of free self-expression; it is the growth of a personality. "Do not talk nonsense!" From whose point of view is it nonsense? The threat of external judgment and critical censure creates fear in people that they can make mistakes and, as a solution of the problem, these people do not do anything, they do not develop. And they live their lives being gray mediocrity.

Benefits of Newborn Baby Massage

Massage for baby is a great way to strengthen the child's body, as well as to prevent and treat various diseases. But what are the benefits of newborn baby massage and how to perform it properly, so as not to harm a baby?


Benefits of newborn baby massage

An infant’s skin is very susceptible to various influences, so the first few months of baby's life are the best time for massage.

Baby massage helps to speed up his mental and physical development. Such procedures have a tonic influence on the baby’s body. Massage helps the musculoskeletal system strengthen, to stimulate bone growth, to increase metabolism, helps muscle tone to get aligned, work of the heart to become regulated and to activate blood circulation.

Regular massage helps to prevent and treat such diseases as rickets, constipation, flatulence. Due to massage some parts of skin are being irritated affecting certain internal organs. Infant massage promotes the renewal of the epidermis and improves thermoregulation of the body.

What about Day Schedule for a Baby?

It may seem strange, but lots of baby’s skills, so important for him to be raised properly and his personality to be rightly formed, are being developed form the first days of life. Following the day schedule and daily routine are one of these qualities. Daily routine of most babies can be disrupted; they don’t distinguish between times of the day and easily mix updays and nights. 

As for feedings, it also requires your parenting impact. The baby might want to eat whenever he wants to, he can start acting up, crying and demanding attention. It is important in such cases to gradually accustom him to day schedule and specific meal times. Thus you will greatly simplify your life and teach your baby about order and discipline. Of course, this process requires patience and time; it will be difficult for your baby to understand what you want from him and why you don’t feed him. He can start misbehaving and crying and you should entertain him in such moments. You can play with him, try to cheer him up, give him his favorite toy or just talk to him. Eventually, the baby will get used to the fact that it is necessary to eat at certain times, but not when he wants to.

How to Talk to Babies

It is recommended to mothers:
 

-   To prohibit only what really must be prohibited;

-   When saying “no”, use only anxious expression and intonation;

-   Think out this problem seriously and find a solution. Obviously, for different child-mother pairs there will be different optimal solutions.

What mothers should not do when talking to the child? Here are some advices:

-   Repeat (imitate) the child’s sounds and actions and add something new to them;

-   Actively use gestures;

-   Understand what the baby tries to tell you, i.e. tell him what he would say if he could speak;

-   Point to the objects you are telling about to your baby;

-   Say the names of people and objects that your baby is interested in;
-   Tell him in simple phrases what is happening now;

-   Emphasize on the keywords ;

-   Repeat the same thing several times. 

Why is this behavior beneficial? Here are some explanations.