Fresh Fruits
Fresh Fruits are high in vitamins and minerals and should be considered an essential part of child’s diet. Banana, additionally, is a great source of carbohydrates and energy.
Month: August 2021
Vegetables
Green leafy vegetables Amazing health benefits of eating green leafy vegetables such as spinach regularly as a part of daily diet are: Beans Kidney beans are a nutritious snack food that supply essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium, potassium and folate. Spread kidney bean puree on a slice of whole-wheat toast or roll it into … Read more
Animal Foods
Meat Meat is an important food in the diet for children and adolescents because it provides significant amounts of proteins, fats, micronutrients such as iron and zinc as well as vitamins. Protein in meat are biologically complete since these provide a good deal of essential amino acids. There is evidence that children who eat meat … Read more
Eggs
The role of eggs in diet cannot be overstated. Egg white provides the best protein whereas egg yolk (yellow portion) is full of fat, especially cholesterol which is essential for good growth and development. . Egg protein is regarded as a “reference protein” since it has the highest biological value. An average hen’s egg provides … Read more
Dairy Foodstuffs (Milk, Curd & Cheese)
Milk, a source of a whole range of most essential nutrients, is by and large essential for the first 6 months. In the second half of the first year, too milk is needed but along with complementary foods (semisolids and solids). Curd is a rich source of probiotics, i.e. good bacteria that are helpful in … Read more
Why temper tantrums?
9 TIPS TO AVOID TEMPER TANTRUMS? Temper tantrums are a sort of emotional outbursts by a young child. The child may become even aggressive and destructive, resulting in a distressing situation for the parents. Here are some measures that may assist parents in safeguarding against this “acting out” behaviour of the child:-
Why odd behaviour?
Mind you, an “odd behaviour” is a reaction to a wide variety of factors. These factors may operate before pregnancy, during pregnancy, during delivery, in neonatal period, and in subsequent emotional environments. Emotional environment is made of parental attitudes, siblings, neighbourhood, school and mass media including movies, television, radio and magazines, etc. The faulty parental … Read more
Why exam fever?
Development of headache, anxiety, tension and stress during the examination season is what wedoctors call “performance anxiety”. The child is indeed scared that he may not live up to the your tall expectations and then fall in your grace. The malady represents a classical mishandling of the child and his problems by the parents when the … Read more
What is a Gifted Child?
This is a child with unique potentials. As soon as you feel that your child is specially gifted, try to look up a child psychologist. He will confirm if the child has extraordinary potentials. He will also guide you as to how to supply the child the much-needed additional stimulus. In the absence of such … Read more
The Growing Child and “Fathering”
The readers would recall that in Chapter 3, I had stressed the strong need for the active support of the father-to-be to the mother-to-be while she was busy dreaming beautiful dreams and carrying the baby in her tummy. My wife, who was kind enough to go through the manuscript at the prepublication stage and offer … Read more
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