Many household products can be poisonous to your toddler, such as aspirin, lye, drain cleaners, cosmetics, moth balls, bleaches, etc. Toddlers put everything they grab into their mouths and it’s no wonder poisoning is common. Here are some important safety rules: 1. Never call any medicine “candy.” 2. Buy medicine and household products in child […]
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
Many infants and toddlers suck their thumbs and as far as I am concerned, you don’t have to worry about it a bit. I am against the use of any restraints, such as mittens or adhesive tape, or painting the thumb with a bitter-tasting substance. These methods not only don’t work, but they can cause
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,
Physical development goes in fits and starts, and a baby’s common sense is nonexistent. It isn’t enough to be careful about what you do, you have to foresee what he might do. These are some of the things that often catch parent unaware: ⢠Babies who aren’t crawling yet can wriggle and roll themselves off
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
