NOT GOING OUT FROM HOME: Winter Activities for Toddlers

Winter is an Excellent Opportunity for a variety of Weather-related Activities, Well that would Warm the Baby and the Parents. Here are some suggestions:

When the rain knocking on the window outside, have a great pleasure to stay home with the baby, the heater best of nature - but spending time with baby in the house is not just a passive cuddling.

There are many activities that can be adopted now, in the cold season, receiving a special meaning, and pour exciting content for them and for us, our time together. "In the winter months, it is important to move, even when staying indoors," says daughter to Glaser, an expert on the development of infants, "The movement encourages the development and the vestibular system. These are critical things for babies of all ages, and can take advantage of this opportunity to learn all kinds of winter-related concepts." One of the most common mistakes parents in Israel in the winter, is to dress the baby in too many layers, fearing it cools. Bat-El warns against this practice: "After all, we in Israel and the winters are not so cold. It is better to heat the house and give the baby to turn around in light clothing. Many layers of clothing baby overalls movement"

"During the winter months, it is important to move, even when staying indoors," says daughter to Glaser, an expert in the development of babies, "the movement encourages the development and the vestibular system. These are critical things for babies of all ages, and can take advantage of this opportunity to learn mini concepts related to winter. "

I offer a number of fun activities especially in winter, for a fun day of you and your baby in a heated:

1. Open discotheque

Please you love music and dancing with the baby. Traffic developing a baby's weight and warms the body. You can dance with my baby on my hands, and if he starts to walk - to encourage him to do it to the music.

2. Home Spa

Heat the room and make your baby massage. This is a great opportunity to touch, communicate, feel and connect to, and is suitable for babies of all ages - the fun for everyone to get a massage. Babies have a tendency to suffer from breathing difficulties than in the transitional seasons, massages and thoracic region of the rib cage moves and sticks to affect breathing. Find out about baby massage workshops near your home, or even HMO.

3. Do a bath

There's nothing like a hot bath and pleasant quality time with your baby. Always relaxing and pleasant. Oil bath would be good for baby's skin, due to drought and disease during this period.

4. Do wind related activities

Babies hear the wind outside the window and are curious about it. Teach children to Wind blowing and you can use a straw, a balloon (and release the air), and blow on the face, neck and neck. This pleasant and interesting.

5. Open a juice stand

Always good to have in the winter citrus fruit, vitamin C good for cooling - and instead simply submit a baby juice, you can make it together. Squeeze the juice from citrus fruit, let the baby taste, play with sweetness and texture (filter or filter). Suitable for children over six months.

6. Craft topic about Winter

The possibilities for creating imaginative square, matching the child has already started works in the garden, around the age of a year and a half. It is possible to collect leaves and paste them on paper, make a cotton-wool clouds, or pick up socks that have lost their spouses (there are always those winter) and use them to make a small puppet theater. With the sock can 'walk' on the child's body and thus learn the names of body organs.

7. Storytime

The stories and songs that accompany the diary, you can spend a winter's issues and rain. While singing songs of rain, try to teach your baby to drip with Hatzbaot- movement of traffic separation fingers develops and improves fine motor skills. Story like "Hot Corn" is a perfect winter's day, you can dramatize it and give the baby a drum / pan and drum rhythm together, then taste the corn, or in the case of "Yael's House" enter and exit from the trunk and under the table. The possibilities are many and varied, as you might think.

Proclamation of Independence of babies

When our baby was offended when he was afraid, when he gets dirty, even if it is difficult, we must learn to release.

8 ways to help parents give toddlers the independence they need it


Quiet. Children are already in bed and have time for introspection on the day that was. I'm trying to figure out where I was right, did wrong and what I could learn. Three years of motherhood certain moments I realized my kids are trying to push the limits, but at other times, I have to release and give them their independence. I try to achieve this, certain things I can more, others - less.

I made a list of eight things that I think needs to be done to give the child his independence. Honestly I could tell that all of them, but at least I continue to try because I believe that it will give my children the confidence needed for life, or as I read recently, "everything the child needs, this adult believes in Him" (Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach).


1. let them fall (although it's hard for me)



Children fall, and a lot. Every mother knows it, and sometimes we even knew in advance that this was going to happen. The first time that the kid tripped and fell to the ground, plus the theatrical cry, I picked it up at top speed and I tried to insult a big hug. I have since learned an important stage in the development of this study fall (and get up), at least in some cases, I was near them to save them, but not in a hurry to come and catch them on the way.

2. getting dirty (because everything goes down in water)



I still remember the first time I came back with the girl from the kindergarten. She was full of sand, and I just wanted to put it straight into the shower. In other situations, I would take her to an amusement park and makes sure to put it on a sheet or clear away the leaves and sand. After a few months I realized that children need to feel - feel the sand and grass, feel the earth, and for that we need to learn to see them dirty and remember one shower will return them clean (besides - their incredible smell remains in any situation).

3. try new things (even if I do not like them) and deal with fears



Although there are quite a few things I'm afraid of them, such as heights or get close to dark places, close to the kids I try to business as usual and not to show my fear, to allow them to really experience all things. Or more correctly, they decide alone what scares them and what is not.

4. Eat alone (even if the ground will eat half of the food)



Disclosure - took me a while to realize how important it is to release the amounts necessary to control and clean when my child eats, and he needs to experience the messy step to develop healthy eating habits. Babies are born with a a healthy mechanism of hunger and satiety, and it is important that we parents do not spoil it and let them eat what and how much they want from a variety of foods that we offer them.

Important to encourage independent eating, of course, depending on the developmental stage of the baby. For example, let him hold the bottle at the age of 5-6 months to eat or drink from it (still not fully release and watch him closely, of course). Or give him a "finger foods" at the age of 8-9 months to eat by himself and allow him to "feed" himself instead of feeding him by a spoon.

It is important to remember that babies begin to eat solid food and get dirty important to allow them to do so. This way to feel the food tastes and new textures so intriguing to them. Food enjoyment involves all the senses and to allow them a fun and teach them healthy eating habits and eating an independent ability, they should experience the food stage litterbug While it ends up in the mouth, but also comes the hair, the clothes and the floor.

5. be offended (from friends, from family)



I often find myself insulted for my children - whether friend said something insulting, or if a family member referred to one of the children than the other. In other situations it was difficult for me to see my daughter waiting to get something she wants, when some of those that did not notice to her so she stands and waits. I realized that I could not protect them forever and I have to let them deal with a the situation alone. It's an important part of their preparation for real life and what still awaits them in the future.

6. fail to do things (and let them deal with it)



"Mom, I can't! "- If only I had a dime every time I hear this sentence. My first instinct is to run and help, but I learned to hold back even if it means that everything will take more time, I really try to give them cope all alone or at most in finding tools to succeed. The way I learned to be a better person when the extinction of judicial sentences wording
Statements like "I knew you did not succeed" or "I told you this would end by .." are not promoting and certainly not encourage repeat experience.

7. Leave the child with a relative (and not calling every five minutes)



Today I've excels in this section and understand that this is an important key, also the independence of the parents and the child's independence. Although not easy to keep the little treasure in the hands of someone else, but I make sure to keep them in advance only by those who I feel confident enough to release a few hours, and I'm always preparing them for what was to happen, such as with whom they stay, what is planned for them at this time and what is permitted boundaries (eg at what time they should go to sleep) and of course when we are supposed to return, because uncertainty creates a sense of security.

  8. Nnot giving me a kiss (even when I really want one!)



Many times I am sending my daughter to preschool, and I would like to kiss her and she answers unequivocally - "No!". In this situation, I keep to myself the speech of the "nine months I carried you ..." and I prefer to tell her, "Fine, your decision". Besides, the kiss will come later (when she decides alone give it to me), would be much more sweet.


Have a great sunny day :)
Keren-Or

The beginning of mosquito season: What to do Against Bites?

Pleasant weather brings mosquitoes. What do you do against bites and how to prevent the little ones get stung?

Tips for summer does not itch

The mosquitoes here, in fact it comes in 50 different species of mosquitoes are in the country, from a selection of 3,000 different mosquito life around the world. Not all mosquitoes biting. Who in fact is the female mosquito bites. The females feed on blood of vertebrates, while males feed on nectar.

What we itchy?

Mosquito bites leave itchy red mark usually swollen. The itching is the body's response to a protein or poison inserted into our bodies mosquito itself, the protein generates the response, and local inflammatory response which we feel and is definitely not pleasant to most people.

Children suffer more?

There are differences between different people on the severity of the reaction or sensitivity to bites. Small children and babies local reactions usually more severe. Swelling in certain areas such as eyes or ears could be bigger and even require the intervention of drugs. Children have their bites cause significant allergic reactions including swelling and redness.

What do you do against bites?

Windows or mosquito nets that maintains the bed: If you are recommended to prevent mosquitoes from entering the house as much as possible. Start by installing nets on the windows or mosquito publication that will be placed around the bed of baby or toddler.

Look for water source area: Mosquitoes need water and any water source sometimes as small as a flowerpot bottom water, are a source to reproduce. All dried and kept in dry areas.

Pesticides: In recent years, local authorities and exterminator spraying mosquito. You have at home? You can contact the municipality or local council and ask them to spray in your area.

Air: The cooler prevents mosquitoes arrive

Clothing suitable for summer: true hot but if you leave the house dressed the children were dressed in thin but long, so you will avoid mosquitoes bite.

Mosquito materials:

Mosquito Bracelet

Instead spread out materials can be worn to prevent mosquito bites bracelet bracelet contains essential oils, the mixture is released slowly bracelet protects mosquitoes over time. Bracelets are permitted for children and pregnant women.

Recommendation Slno- If the child or infant stage, it puts things in here you should avoid using the bracelet.

Mosquito Sticker

Tzintrolh oil patch containing essential oils repulsive mosquitoes. You can paste the sticker repellent on clothing or anywhere to engine bites. It is important to prevent the baby put the sticker here so check whenever the glue which

Our recommendation: If you went for a walk in the park even, you can paste a label on the stroller

Topically applied substances mosquito

Stores are different materials creams and roll, to prevent mosquito bites. Some natural and some chemicals, different oils. The materials that prevent bites should apply a small amount of exposed areas of the body

Our recommendation: avoid sniffer bulk and eye area

Mosquito devices plugged in

There are a number of different devices, including tablets or oils, connected to power and reject the mosquito. Apparently the smell spreading mosquitoes repellent and makes them stay out of the room.

Our recommendation: Do not forget to remove the appliance

Get a nice & not itchy Summer :)

XOXO

Keren-Or