Importance of Parental Involvement for Children

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Pre-school years are the years when children are at cognitive development. Parents should play an effective role by taking prior actions in ensuring that they are always there to support their children whenever they need to make them feel confident and at their full potential. Parental involvement plays a significant role in children’s academic and personal development. Parents are the first teacher of children since they are born. They are involved in nurturing their children and ensuring their support, this allows the children to learn better and perform to their fullest.

The preschool settings at home are recommended for the parents to make the children adopt positive behavior and help parents to tune how they have to perform at school. With that, as academic growth is important for them, social growth is also important, on the other hand.

Well, when parents stay connected and pay attention to their small activities they found them always available. The connection is the key to make the children aware of the support, and all the self-esteem parents are inducing in them.

Benefits of Parental Involvement

Socially Beneficial

When parents keep their children surrounded by people and make them understand how to greet, please, and behave among other build social cognizance. When children connect with other children, teachers, and different parents through activities they get to know how to socialize. When they feel comfortable with them, it helps them in building social and communication skills. Parents are role models for the children, they learn with parents, the way you behave, the same they will adopt.

The children who are not socially interacted with by their parents are seem to have difficulty in developing social skills later in life. Hence, social interaction is important for children.

Enhance Learning Apart from Classroom and School

Developing the preschool curriculum understanding is important for children. When children need help with homework the availability of parents makes things easy for them. This makes them realize, learning is not restricted to schools and classrooms, but parents are also good teachers for them.

It has been observed that the parents who do not show any interest and do not involve in children’s homework, those children seem to perform at a low key. Less or more, they remain distracted and show anxiousness most of the time in the classroom.

Help them in Creating Positive Image of Learning and Education

Parental involvement plays a key role in improving self-discipline and positive behaviors that help them behave well in and outside the school. When there is a positive connection between parents and educators, learning becomes more consistent for children.

At the early stages, children are in the age of development. They learn whatever they see in their surroundings. It is crucial to create a positive environment, if they see negativity they practice bad behaviors, and if they see positivity they become calm and polite. However, it is up to the parents how they make their children recognize their personality, self-esteem, and confidence, which requires attention and positive involvement. So take out some time from your busy schedule and invest it in nurturing your kids.

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How to make this Christmas Safe for Kids?

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During this pandemic and lockdown situations, children are already too bored. There is no fun activity left for them. For around a year they are at home, no school, no playground, no friends, no outings, nothing left for them. Even, this year all the festivities are celebrated from home, with SOPs and few friends and family members. The limits have already exhausted, not even children, parents also.

These days, parents are more concerned about, how to keep their children protected and away from this fatal disease. Well, it’s too hard to run away, all we can do is follow the precautionary measures. Masks, sanitizing, and social distancing starts to irritate, as there is no life left for us. We cannot hang out as there are no restaurants or public places open for people. There is no way to have big gatherings and a big celebration. People are badly missing the days before Covid-19.

Well, as we all know, Decembers is at its mid, and the jingle bells are ringing. It’s finally Christmas, for which children wait for about the whole year. But, is Christmas has almost ruined because of this coronavirus? Are the children excited to celebrate it on a big scale as they do before? Well, things might not be the same this year.

But, parents can make it interesting for their kids. As all of the festivals are celebrated from home, why not Christmas? Do not let your children miss the fun! Here are few homely ways by which you can make Christmas excited for your children.

Dress up like Santa

Well, for the whole year children wait for Santa Claus and the gifts he brings for them. This year, they might not meet Santa, so why not you? Get some gifts for your kids and surprise them on Christmas night by dressing up as Santa.

Decorate the Home

Decorate the Christmas tree with colorful ornaments and hangings. But don’t forget to involve your kids in the whole decoration. Moreover, keep those things away from children that could be harmful, like batteries, and remote controls. Give your children the unbreakable things in their hands so they enjoy decorating the home with you and stay away from the things that could harm them.

Make the Face Masks Funky

Face masks are not to forget things these days. Wearing face masks has now become mandatory. So what about adding some flare of fun in it? Grab a flexible cloth of red color, decorate it with cotton to give the touch of snow, color the tissue papers to make a Christmas tree, reindeers, or Santa Claus on it.

Christmas Food at Home

Mashed potatoes, ham roasted beef, Christmas puddings, turkey with stuffing, and some fried vegetables are known to make the dinner table look appealing. But what about making the table exciting for kids? Try out savory puff pastry Christmas tree and Havarti, cream cheese, and parmesan herbed Christmas tree, which will delight the taste buds of not only kids but the whole family.

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Don’t Allow Technology to Distract the Priorities!

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Digital distraction affects social life, work-life as well as studies. Well, along this all, technology has a great impact on relations and personal life as well. Decades ago, when there were no laptops, mobile devices, televisions, videogames, and desktops, people stay connected with their family members and other beloved ones. Now as days are moving towards technology, people disconnect and reduce socialization. We can say, the way of socializing has changed. Along with bringing ease to life, it has some cons that we haven’t noticed as we are too involved in the digital world.

The studies have shown that 44% of people use social media to disconnect themselves from in-person interaction. Moreover, 45% of teenagers love to spend time with friends, and they are observed feeling annoyed when their friends are diverted because of technology.

People should focus on maximizing in-person interaction and minimizing the use of technology. With all the easiness and comforts, there are people in your life who wait for you for the whole day. Well, as a psychological fact, people who do not get attention from their loved ones become are more vulnerable to get mental health disorders. This lack of attention is mostly found in children.

As we all have heard about ADHD in children, ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This disorder is also a cause of a lack of attention from the parent’s side. This lead to common symptoms like low self-esteem, lack of attention, children with ADHD interrupt people during conversation, are unable to complete the tasks, and become easily distracted. Usually, parents panicked if they see any of the symptoms in their children, which come into consideration when there are rapid complaints from school.

It’s all about priorities, which have changed. The major effect of technology is on growing children. From the beginning, all a baby wants is the attention of their parents, and if parents are always busy on phone and screens they are neglecting their child and their needs.

Well, if we talk about relationships, technology has sucked them. Spending most of the time on your mobile phones and bringing work at home means no time for family. And when you have no time for the family you are not watering the relations. The major reason for divorce these days is not giving enough time to partners.

Technology has changed life in many ways, now you don’t need to follow long processes with one click you can complete your tasks. It is a better way of communication, saves time, gives easy access to things, provide better ways of learning, and gives worldwide information and more. Well, the benefits are uncountable, but it depends on the use. People these days are neglecting the priorities, which is social in-person interaction, and the lack of person to person interaction is leading to health problems. Now the use of mobile phones is in your hands, and you have to decide the priorities! But remember, never allow technology to take over your priorities!

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Your little one is too moody? Let’s have a Mommies Session!

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Children’s chores are amazing, and yes being a mommy is a different experience. With all these things going around, sometimes for the new moms, it is really difficult to understand why your little cute bunny is so moody?

New moms are already so confused about how to start their new life, a life with a newborn. It is very frustrating sometimes to understand why the baby is crying? (Only for the new moms, again!). But, with time they start to understand the sleeping routine, hunger lapses, bathing routines, and yes the most favorite thing of babies, massaging. To understand all these things, of course, your mother, sister, mother-in-law, or a friend is helping you out. Still, when the baby cries, your heart drowns, and you are not getting what the problem is. Some of the mothers get panicked when they see their kid is crying continuously, and they just rush to the doctors. But new moms! You never know what your baby wants!

Sometimes, the presence of the mother is enough for a kid to feel relax and calm, and sometimes the hunger strikes! It is still difficult to identify! Well, a group of mommies can of course help you here. Stay connected with your closed one by WhatsApp group or by any means which is comfortable for you!

When babies are just born, from that time till their toddling, there are several changes in moods that you will observe. There is nothing to get worried about, as it is normal in everyone, and you have to deal with it. When they are born, the surroundings in which they are living is new to them. They are not even able to recognize the faces and see the color. They are just known with the feeling and touching sensations.

At infancy, till 6 months, babies are accepting the world, people in their surroundings, stuff on their bed, and the smell of their mom. They just feed, sleep, and repeat! At that time, all they need is the attention of their mom and their presence. As moms are already combating with the new schedule and trying to balance things, during this all it has been a difficult task to give the proper time that their baby needs.

Sometimes, women found some mood changes in infancy, which is the reason for absence or lack of attention from the mother’s side. They become irritated, cries a lot, and sometimes there is a disruption in sleeping and feeding. Mostly, children are moody when they are one or two. They just want to do what they want. They sometimes do not listen when someone calls their name, pick the things that are not safe for them, and when they do not get them they become arrogant and anxious.

These things start happening when children turn one. However, mothers are advised to give proper attention to their every single act and teach them about the ethics and behaviors from the age of one by playing with them. Parents are the role models for their children, whatever you do, they will adapt.

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How Kindergarten from Home help the Children Learn more efficiently?

How Kindergarten from Home help the Children Learn more efficientlyHow Kindergarten from Home help the Children Learn more efficiently

Some of the children are good learners, they pick quickly everything and respond respectively once they turn one or two. However, still, it is important to motivate them to learn. When it comes to education and learning, few of the children take interest in learning and some do not. If children have a willingness to learn and adapt will become a good learner.

When it comes to developing the learning skills in children, parents, and teachers both do the same mistake, which is limiting studies to classrooms only. Classrooms are only a source that gives them resources to learn, but it doesn’t motivate a child to adapt and prepared them for learning. Schools and classrooms are the primary sources of learning, where teachers give the basics of interaction, behavior, and instruct and work on academic growth.

Well, when a child starts speaking and understanding, mothers are recommended to develop academic learning skills in their children by introducing alphabets and numbers. Use the alphabets and numbers while they are eating, playing, or make them watch the poems that use alphabets and numbers. This will help the children to recognize them.

If you build the habit of learning when your child is just 1 or 2 years old, it will give academic growth and interact them with the academic basics which makes schooling easy for them. There are ways parents could adopt to motivate their children for learning at home and school.

Read with your Children

When parents start reading and singing alphabets and numbers with their children, they become more interested and enjoy the rhythm, and most of the time they ask their parents to repeat.

Encourage them to say, whether it is wrong

Well, the big mistake usually parents do is, they start scolding their child if they are reading something wrong, skip, or don’t remember. This hits their self-esteem and confidence and leads them not to speak in front of their parents, even if they want to learn. Instead, let them read and learn and correct them after that by reading it yourself correctly.

Give them Freedom of Choice

When children are one or two they are more interested in colors as they attract them. Give them choices, whether they want kinder books, want to learn from poems, or from the toys that have alphabets and numbers written on them. Moreover, it will also effective if you put stuff having different colors, fruits, vegetables, and characters in their surroundings like their plates, bed covers, etc. that never let them forget. But remember, there must be some fun.

Create a Positive Image of School and Studies

When your child becomes capable enough to join the school before that creates a positive image of the school, teachers, classroom, and school friend. Make them enthusiastic to join school not anxious with negative facts. Insert the importance of learning in their minds by positivity, not by making them scared of it.

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You Weren’t Prepared, what about you Mommy?

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The new moms never get as much attention as their growing belly receives. Mommies to be are always in the spotlight and under the random recommendations. Well, before being a mommy woman is a kind a girl who loves to be the center of attention who likes to make people adore her. But since they announce the big news, all of a sudden, the feelings and emotions got changed.

Now, all of the focus will be on taking extra care and listening to the random advice of maidens and yes, you and your every act are being noticed.

How’s your baby?

The most asked question is how is your baby? Well, when you enter motherhood your needs are priorities got the backseat, and you have to be prepared for this from the start. Forget those hangouts, long drives, brunches, parties, and friend’s time just remember one thing, now you are breathing for two.

You might now notice, most people are now more interested in your baby and how pregnancy makes you feel not in you! This thing is hard to accept and hard to absorb, well but you have to do this despite all of the irritations and constant counter questions. But, along with the underlining situations, things have already turned into something cheering. When everybody in your surroundings gets to know you and your husband are becoming parents the congratulations from every other person lift your mood and make you feel the existence of your coming soul.

Your Frequent ‘I am Fine’ Answers!

Once you give birth to your little angel, now the most frequently asked questions are ‘how you are feeling now’, ‘how was the delivery experience?’, ‘is your baby all healthy?’, and more. Well, when you have just entered motherhood you are already undecided sometimes and confused most of the time about what to do and how to handle it. In the midst of all these confusions, these questions and your constant answers of ‘I am fine’ may bother you. It’s not your fault, you are already going through the postpartum period.

The scary labor experience and the waking hours at night have already brought women to a situation where they feel they are about to cry and always in a depressing situation, which sometimes becomes uncontrollable. From sleeping for few hours to eating barely very little is all-new for the women at that time. Sometimes you even don’t know how you are feeling at the moment.

Despite everything, you love being a mom!

Life is now far different than the life before motherhood when you have finally healed from everything now you understand how lovely this life is. When you start taking care of your newborn completely all of the sorrows and worries just go down. Now you need no validations, nothing, you just know what the responsibilities of being a mom are. You have now accepted the change and that’s the beauty of life! The main focus of your life your baby and he is the only focus!

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Things you need to know about Mindful Parenting

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With the rough and tough routine and children’s chores, you can never focus on whether your parenting way is good or not. It is difficult for you to decide if you are running things smoothly and in a balanced way, are you leading things to success or not. Many of you have no idea about the instincts of parenting as we believe in random things. 

Balancing between the actions and emotions of your child and responding to them respectively is call mindful parenting. Respond thoughtfully towards the behaviors of your child to make sure their emotions and self-esteem are not hijacked. This nurtures the bond between you and your child when you are not reluctant to even the bad behaviors instead, correct them without using the rashness and scolding them. 

Showing conscious attention towards what’s going on instead of being scared of your anger is all about the term Mindful parenting. Parents who are always scolding and creating boundaries for the children could never rebuild their self-esteem and confidence. However, mindful parenting is about paying attention to whatever is going instead of ignoring and changing it with harsh behaviors. It helps in letting go of the shame and rebuild the esteem in children. 

What are the Benefits of Mindful Parenting?

Mindful parenting helps to build a strong bond between parents and children. It keeps the children closer to their parents and helps retrieve the unstable emotional state of children and self-esteem. Moreover, the other significant benefits are. 

  • Parents become more aware of the emotions, thoughtfulness, needs, and feelings of their children. 
  • Improves the relationship with parents. 
  • It helps the parents understand their feelings and emotions.
  • Parents become keener and less critical with their children.
  • Helps in regulating emotions more profoundly. 
  • Parents start understanding the emotional state and situation of their children and stand at their back to support. 

What are the Key Factors of Understanding Mindful Parenting?

Learn to Relax before becoming Aggressive

The significant part of mindfulness is giving yourself a calm space and relax instead of being aggressive. It is important to practice discovering the space by taking deep breathes to relax. When you focus on the space you will focus on the triggers, which afterward keep you calm. When you control and couldn’t react harshly, you will respond more mindfully. 

Observe your Feelings during the Dispute with your Child

When you are in an arguing state with your child, understand what the problem actually is, and what is frustrating you the most. Try to understand, whether you are embarrassed, ashamed, or angry. Let the emotions come and go, and never let yourself stuck on it. Try to understand the dispute in the eyes of your child, if there is no goodness, feel the connection with your child and respond calmly. 

Even you are disagreeing with the Child’s Point of View, Still, Listen to it! 

Your children might not be as smart and mindful as you are. But instead, you should listen to what they are saying even they are wrong. Create a situation where things become understandable for your children, anger would never make them decide what is wrong and what is right. At that age, they are in the learning process, notice the emotions, and then react as parents are more mindful than children. 

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How to make winter safe at home for children?

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Winter is the season that brings joy and fun, outdoor activities, and adventures. You can never stop your child from going outside and play in the snow and cold. All you can do is taking care of them when they are going outdoors. Mommies are usually so worried about how they can take care of their children’s health and keep them away from winter illnesses. You try your best to keep the temperatures of the house low and give the best foods that protect them from cold. Instead, there are tips you need to consider and cross-check whether you are following or not. 

Set Safety Guidelines 

Well, you have already taught your child how to safely play outside. But, still, there is a need to make them mindful of the guidelines and safety precautions. 

  • Do not allow them to go out alone.
  • Their skating should be within limits on the streets, they are not too close to the traffic.
  • Make sure they do not have signs of frostbite.
  • Make them aware of the places and tunnels that can collapse. 

Protect the Skin

The skin of children is already so sensitive. Due to low humidity and cold weather, the skin usually remains dry. It is important to protect the skin of your child. 

  • Avoid showers and give a bath with warm water daily, and let the body absorb moisture as much as it can. 
  • Moisturize your kid right after a bath.
  • In winter, dryness cause the child to lick their lips, and the bacteria in the saliva irritates the lips. However, it is important to apply lip balm or petroleum gel. 
  • Apply petroleum gel or moisturizer on those chubby cheeks. 
  • Do not forget sunscreen to apply before they go outside. Try to use SPF30 or higher.
  • Avoid wet and cold mittens as they can dry your skin that causes cracks on the fingers. 

Keep your Kid Hydrated 

Children sweat when they play, however, make sure they are taking breaks for water. Like the moisturizer, hydration also gets ignored. Hydration should be on priority in the list of safety tips. Children lose water in their body through breath even if they are not sweating, it is important to replenish the fluid of the body. For children, hot soups and drinks are recommended to take frequently that help them ingest more body fluid. 

Layer up them properly

Well, it is something really important. Covering the kid from head to toe is the requirement to enjoy the winter adventures. When they are exposed to the cold weather, make sure they are ready to protect themselves from breezy winds. In the winter season, children are more vulnerable to get ill. However, it is subtle to layer up them comfortably and make sure you are not burdening extra clothes that overheat and cause other medical problems. Ears, hands, feet, and chest should be perfectly covered. Use double or triple layer or sweater, jackets or overcoats (depending on the temperature), cover the hands with gloves, cover feet with socks, and do not forget the cap that properly protects the head and ears from the chilly wind. 

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Why Children Remain Consistently Tired?

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Sometimes, children become exhausted, which is considered to be perfectly normal. But if you see your kid is consistently tired and inactive you need to investigate the issue promptly. Well, children are the capitals of the house, their laughter, running around the house, and silly conversations always keep up the moods of parents. But, when they saw them lethargic for the whole day as they were in the night, make them worried.

The excuses to avoid homework, socialize, and play with other children, and avoiding food for no reason. These things make the parents worried, and most of the parents connect with the health care providers. When a child complains to be tired all day it is a symptom of extreme fatigue.

Fatigue is a condition in which a child remains inactive and lacks the energy to perform even normal tasks. They are not interested in games, cartoons, or even their favorite food. Despite proper sleep routine, they are too lethargic to leave their bed. In time treatment is recommended if parents observe the continuous inactivity in their kids.

Causes of Continuous Tiredness

Depression

We think that depression in children is a rare thing. However, some of the parents are aware of depression in children, and they recognized it when their child cries or becomes sad. But, this is not necessary all the time. Some of the time they become sad and cries, but most of the time they don’t instead they show tantrums or separate themselves.

Common symptoms are change in appetite, less concentration, low self-esteem, sensitivity, low energy, low grades, lack of interest, and more.

Due to Different Illnesses

Acute illnesses can be one of the major causes. For example, children with respiratory problems, sinus infections, colds, etc. can have tiredness all the time. When they recover from those illnesses their tiredness goes away.

Dehydration

If you think your child is tired, the first and foremost thing you can do is, give your kid a glass of water. Without the maximum amount of water content, the body cells do not function properly, which is the major cause of fatigue. Make the habit of drinking water by offering them a glass of water whenever you are thirsty.

Side Effects of Medications

When your child is on some medications, he might be experiencing tiredness. Medications for allergies, cold and other illness causes fatigue in children.

Sleeping Problems

Sleep is necessary to convince ourselves for the next day. If your child is going through sleeping problems or have irregular sleeping patterns, they become tired. Monitor the time they go to bed and wake up and stay with them for about a week to set the routine and make them sleep, as every child has different sleeping patterns.

Lack of Hemoglobin

The lack of hemoglobin in the blood that transports the oxygen to the body cells causes anemia, which is due to iron deficiency. This deficiency of hemoglobin keeps your child lethargic and fatigued for the whole day.

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Toddlers not eating? Here is what you need to do!

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As your baby grows up, it has already become challenging for you to deal with the picky nature of them. Your healthy baby now starts toddling and become decisive about what to eat and what to not. They might not be taking the amount of food they need till the end of the day, even if they are starving. You have already tired of making the animal-shaped nuggets, and now your toddler has become bored of it. This won’t be happening with you only, the instinct of selectiveness when it comes to food specially develops in the baby as they grow.

After a long hunger strike, when your child finally wants something to eat, you have no choice other than giving them the food they love. Well, moms usually think that this could be a sign of any serious medical issue, and how to deal with it. Do they need medical help?

Is it normal or a serious health issue?

It is the frequently asked question, is it normal that toddlers not eating? As a baby grows up to toddling being selective is a normal thing, there is no fault of parenting skills. When your toddler starts turning their faces from whatever you put in front of them, it is the normal developmental stage.

Usually, the selectiveness of food is observed between 12 to 18 months. When children are in their first year, it becomes difficult for them to gain weight. They eat food in smaller portions, and from that age the hunger strike begins. They start to avoid food and ask for more milk.

What Mommies Should Do?

As you now know, this is not a health problem, it is the phase that makes your child picky. All you can do is, be creative. These tips will surely make the mealtime successful for you and your kid both.

Let them choose!

At this stage, children are excited to choose for themselves. Bring your children to the kitchen and let them choose whatever they want. Give them options such as do you want to eat bananas or apples? Do you want to use a folk or spoon? Which plate would you like to eat in? Involve them in stirring, shaking, and baking. Induce food independence as much as you can.

Make Tweaks in Everyday Meal

It might take your extra 15 minutes, but it will make the meal successful. Making meals and snacks toddler-friendly is a fun thing. The change in shape, texture, and color convince the toddler of even two years to eat it. You can use a cookie cutter to shape fruits and vegetables. Arrange the food on the plate that recognizes a similar image. Give silly names to the meal.

Bring New Food

Children love to try something new. Why not try it on meals? Your kid might already get bored of the food he eats daily. Introducing new food is part of developing eating habits in kids and the best way to feed them healthy. Add colors to your child’s plate, do not stick with one, and change the meal after every 1 to 2 days.

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