Besides swimming and family outings to keep your preschooler active and exercise-oriented, another terrific activity is wrestling. It exercises all your child’s muscles and increases strength and flexibility. It also allows you and your child to have fun together. I would advise you to call frequent rest periods, if not for your child, certainly for […]
Most toddlers are full of energy and have an intense desire to move around and explore their environment. It is your job to provide your toddler a variety of interesting opportunities for exercising, always keeping safety in mind. Elaborate equipment is not necessary, just arrange for the space and opportunity. Your youngster will do the
Infants love to be active. Just give them the space and opportunity. For the three- to six-month-old, here are some suggestions: 1. Turn-over games. Babies never tire of being turned from front to back, and back to front, and on and on. 2. Kicking toys attached to the sides of his crib are great fun.
Your new baby is sturdy and very well engineered, so don’t be afraid to handle him and move him around right from the start. During the first month or two it is important to support your baby’s head because it is quite wobbly. The earlier you start to help him develop strength, good muscle tone
Baby’s muscle control improves rapidly in the second to fourth months, moving down from neck and shoulders to include the upper back. If you pull him gently into sitting position, he can support his head and shoulders and the upper part of his spine, the remaining sag is from the waist down. ⢠By now,
Many six to nine month old babies won’t sit on a lap at all. They grab for clothes or hair and haul themselves to use the adult’s knee for a trampoline. It’s another couple of months before your baby is able to support his full weight, though. But once he can, it won’t be long
Babies can’t be immunized against every kind of infectious illness, but they can and should be protected against the killer diseases like diphtheria, whooping cough or pertussis, tetanus, and polio, and then against the common illnesses like measles, mumps, and rubella which can be serious in themselves or dangerous to certain groups (as rubella is
New babies don’t need to be kept nearly as clean as most parents keep them. It’s adults who like them to smell of baby powder. If you and your baby enjoy the ritual of daily baths and shampoos from the beginning, fine. But if yours is one of the newborns who hates being undressed and
There’s always air in your baby’s stomach. He doesn’t only swallow it when feeding, but also when he’s crying, or just breathing. Don’t be fanatical about getting wet air out – you can’t, and you don’t need to. All you have to do is help your baby be comfortable. Some babies swallow enough air to
Broken nights and too little sleep are parents’ most common complaint. I am going to deal with some of the ways you might be able to prevent nighttime from becoming problem time in your household. The times at which we fall asleep and wake again have a lot to do with habit. Staying up late
