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7 Things Kids Can Learn By Riding A Tricycle
Riding a tricycle is a rite of passage for most children. Find out how learning to ride a tricycle helps your toddler learn several important lessons and adapt crucial developments.
Riding a tricycle is an all-time fun activity that most kids enjoy. As your child turns 2-years-old, you can find him attempting to sit and ride a tricycle. By the time your toddler turns 4-years-old, you can find him pedaling easily and regulating his tricycle efficiently. But what benefits does your child get? We list a few of them below:
1. Improved Coordination And Balance
Riding a tricycle is an effective way to improve balance and coordination of various parts of your kid’s body. It helps hone your toddler’s several motor skills and enhances coordination between various muscle groups. You can find that riding a bicycle effectively promotes the development of the hand-eye coordination, as your child masters the steering activity. Additionally, it also helps enhance arm-leg coordination as your toddler learns to master climbing on and getting off the tricycle and ride it with improved balancing skills appropriately. A notable fact is that the hands, arms, and legs of your preschooler coordinate together appropriately as he learns to balance and ride his tricycle properly.
2. Confidence
As your child learns to ride a tricycle, you can find him turning more confident. Riding the tricycle helps your preschooler to find his way, take the right turns, avoid obstacles, and tackle several challenges that finally end up boosting your toddler’s confidence to a great extent.
3. Independence
Riding a tricycle inculcates the virtue of independence in your toddlers, as they learn to navigate from one area on the ground to another on their own. Once your kids master the skill to ride the tricycle by avoiding the obstacles, they no more need your assistance. This gives them freedom to explore various areas of your house or playground independently and your kids are glad to navigate independently by managing their tricycle.
4. Essential Vehicle Accessories
Learning and riding a tricycle acquaints your preschoolers with various vehicle accessories. Your child learns about different parts of the vehicles, such as wheels, steering, pedals, etc., which help him understand the functioning of the tricycle as well as various other related vehicles that he has not yet tried. If your kid’s tricycle has a bell or horn, your child learns the functioning of the bell and how it alerts the person coming in his way.
5. Safety
Practicing riding a tricycle makes your preschooler become more aware of his and others’ safety. To ride the tricycle in a safe way, your kid learns to avoid spills, take turns, slow down, or come to a stop instinctively.
6. Take Initiative
As your kid masters riding a tricycle, he likes to take initiative to try new adventures. You may find your kid taking initiative to race with other kids who are riding their tricycles, without making you push him into the race. Your child may also carry his books or other items from one area in your house to other area by placing the items in the backseat of the tricycle.
7. Get Ready For Learning A Bicycle
Once your child turns an experienced tricycle rider, his next step would be to try riding a bicycle or kid’s bike. Riding a tricycle paves your kid’s way to learn and ride a bicycle in no time. Your child is already acquainted with the wheels, steering, pedals, and other parts of the tricycle so it becomes easy for your child to learn bicycle quickly. Read more
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Q. #asktheexperts what to give children when starting solids?
Rashmi
Mom of a 9 yr 8 m old girl
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A. After completing the time of six months you should start with dal water and rice water followed by all kind of fruits and vegetables porridge khichadi mash banana mash potato mash sweet potato dairy products and varieties made made out of ragi Suji and oats can also be given to your child
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Mix sprout coriander dosa
This one's a tasty variety of dosa especially created to add protein and fiber to the dosa and make it more wholesome. Sprouts are super foods and eating raw sprouts is the best way to benefit from them, but very few like to eat them raw, so recipes like this are useful. This recipe uses sprouted whole green gram (moong), whole black gram (udad) and white chickpeas (Kabuli channa), all powerful foods packed in one.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
30 Minutes
10 Minutes
Ingredients
For Soaking
3 cups idli rice(a special rice available in the Indian stores for making idli and dosas)
1 cup whole white urad dal(split black gram)
2 tsp (teaspoon) fenugreek seeds
Water for soaking
For Sprouting
1/3 cup whole green gram
1/3 cup whole black gram(urad)
1/3 cup white chick peas(chole)
Water for soaking
For Grinding
1 cup mixed sprouts
3 cups idli rice
1 cup whole white urad dal
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 garlic pod, peeled or unpeeled
½ an inch ginger piece
2 to 3 green chilies
Salt to taste
For coriander mixed sprout dosa:
1 cup coriander, finely chopped
4 tsp oil, For the seasoning
1 small onion, finely chopped
½ tsp cumin seeds
1 green chill, finely chopped
1 tbsp (tablespoon) coriander, finely chopped
Method
To Make Idli Dosa Batter
Step 1
Soak idli rice in water. Let the water completely immerse the rice. Allow it to soak for about 6 hours.
Step 2
Simultaneously, soak the urad dal and fenugreek in water in a similar fashion, so that the dal immerses completely in water. Let it also soak for about 6 hours.
Step 3
Grind the urad dal into a fine smooth batter. While grinding, use the water used for soaking to make it into a smooth and fluffy batter.
Step 4
Pour this batter into a large container(Large enough to allow the batter to ferment and increase in its volume)
Step 5
Grind the rice into a smooth paste, adding just the required amount of water to grind into a almost smooth batter. Do not add too much batter else it will become too watery. You can grind the rice in batches for better smoothness.
Step 6
Combine the urad and rice batter, add salt to taste and set aside for overnight or at least 12 hours until the batter ferments. Once fermented, the batter will rise in volume.
For Sprouting
Step 1
Sort the whole grams to remove stones.
Step 2
Wash and then soak in water for 6-8 hours or overnight.
Step 3
After soaking, wash the moong again and drain the Water.
Step 4
Then, hang the soaked moong in a moist cloth for 10-12 hours (depending on the climate).
Step 5
Allow the sprouts to come out of the muslin cloth. Sprinkle water frequently if the cloth becomes dry.
Step 6
If you see short shoots coming out, your sprouts are ready to use.
To make mix sprouts coriander dosa
Step 1
First grind sprouts along with idli-dosa batter, cumin seeds, garlic, ginger and green chilies, coriander along with a little water. Don't add too much water to prevent it from becoming runny.
Step 2
Pour it into a mixing bowl, add salt and mix.(Remember, your idli-dosa batter already has some salt added to it, add accordingly)
Step 3
Place a griddle / non-stick tawa on medium heat.
Step 4
When it is hot enough, pour a ladle of batter and swirl in a circular motion to spread it out like a dosa. Drizzle a little oil around the dosa.
Step 5
Spread some of the seasonings on the top. The wet surface will help it to stick. If required add a little oil over the onions.
Step 6
When the bottom of the dosa lifts off the pan easily, flip over to other side and cook for a minute.
Step 7
Turn it again, fold in half and turn off the heat.
Step 8
Serve hot with a dip or sauce or chutney of your liking.
Step 9
Repeat the process for making the other dosas.
Nutritional Information
Serving Size 50.9g
Calories
145
Calories from Fat
50
Total Fat
5.3g 8%
Saturated Fat
0.1g 0%
Trans Fat
0.0g
Sodium
190mg 8%
Potassium
58mg 2%
Total Carbohydrates
14.0g 5%
Dietary Fiber
0.5g 2%
Sugars
0.9g
Protein
1.8g
Vitamin A
0%
Vitamin C
6%
Calcium
1%
Iron
8%
* Based on a 2000 calorie diet
Nutritional details are an estimate and should only be used as a guide for approximation.
Tip: In winters, the batter takes longer to ferment. Instead, you can place the batter in oven and switch on the light for a few hours. Once the oven is warm, turn off the light and let the batter ferment. In the absence of light, preheat the oven to warm, turn off oven, then keep the batter in the oven to ferment. Read more
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Creative Ways To Keep Your Best Memories Safe
Your children will grow up before you know it. Instead of lamenting over how time flies, treasure moments before they fade away. Much like the pensieve in Harry Potter that allowed him to relive times long bygone, capture your kids' memories using these fun ideas.
Take a stroll down memory lane with your children by unfolding experiences you've carefully preserved over time. Children grow up ridiculously fast thus making it important to capture these memories in order to relive them later. They’ll love seeing themselves as children and will marvel at their mommies and daddies looking as youthful as they do now.
Ways to Preserve Memories Forever
1. Toy Imprints
Before you dispose that torn teddy your baby once loved, apply a coat of paint to the front and take its impression on craft paper. Frame it so that you won't lose it and hang it up on the wall of your child's bedroom.
2. Preserve Memories as Ornaments
Even something as nondescript as your child's hospital I.D. bracelet, a cap or a bangle can be preserved. Your child may no longer wear them but will love having something from childhood to cherish.
3. Turn Cool Summer Art into Funky Jewellery
Go through your child's art and pick a few items to immortalise into something that can be used. You could turn them into a cool piece of jewellery or a key chain. Lots of online ventures as well as your neighbourhood art store will do this for a price by creating an imprint of your darling's work on specific objects. You could also convert several items of your little one's artwork into a collage for the living room.
4. Have a LOL Album
Instead of deleting awkward photos that leave you wondering just what went wrong, save them in a photo book. It makes for a barrel of giggles and teaches children to be able to laugh at themselves every once in a while.
5. Vacation Jars Filled With Memories
When you're on a family vacation, collect things that your child loves whether it's shells, pebbles or leaves. Store them in a jar to remember the good times you shared and put it on display.
6. A Family Yearbook
Create a family yearbook starting from the day your little one was born. Take a digital camera or even a good phone camera and practice how to capture the sights and sounds of your child. You can photograph the first crawl, the first cry, or the first time he called you mom!
7. Record Special Events
With the help of social media, you can not only store photos and videos of your angel's life but you can also share them. Make a video of all the special events in your child's life and share them with people who are important to you. Don't forget to tweak your privacy settings to control who gets to see them!
8. Make Wonderful Memories out of Baby Clothes
As much as you'd like to hold on to that tiny romper or cute pair of socks, old clothes take up valuable space. If you can't bear the thought of chucking them but don't want them crowding your house, use them to make a cute patchwork quilt. You can also make a treasured teddy bear and turn your child's favourite clothes into art and frame it.
9. Make a Pregnancy Journal
Preserve the memories of your pregnancy and share it with your child a few years down the line. Create a journal, document events from conception till childbirth and stick a few pictures of yourself when you were carrying and your husband's priceless expressions. You can go back and reminisce about the happy days every time you're feeling nostalgic.
10.Have a 'Good Time Jar'
Make everyone in your family write a note and drop it in a jar when something good happens. It could be something as small as finding a lucky coin or as important as acing a test. After many years, or when things are not going right, reading them will remind you that good things are just round the corner.
These are just a few ways you can preserve your child's memories and treasure them for a lifetime. When you look through them years down the line, possibly even when you have an empty nest, you'll be glad you took the time to record and save precious memories. Read more
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Start Your Day Right - 10 Tips to Make Your Mornings Fresher AND Productive Everyday!
A well-spent morning opens the doors to a successful day. Examine a list of habits of highly successful people to make your early morning routine very productive too. Start incorporating these changes and you'll soon be on the track well-travelled by successful folks.
The modern lifestyle may be more efficient, but it’s also challenging and oft times, a little too fast paced. The way you begin your day, in particular, has an impact on your productivity, which is why it’s important to start out fresh and raring to go.
10 Morning Habits of Highly Successful People
1. Getting out of bed early
A cosy bed may seem to be the most inviting thing, but most successful people do manage to suppress the urge and get out of bed early. Waking up at 6:30 instead of 8 means that you have one and a half hours more for a head start!
2. Working out
Another one among 10 things to do every morning to be successful is to start your day with your favourite exercise, whether it’s strength training at the gym, a yoga class or an invigorating power walk. Working out ensures better health, boosts your productivity and raises your energy.
3. Getting some alone time
The importance of alone time can’t be stressed enough. Even if it’s just 20 minutes, you can use it to plan your day, meditate or listen to soothing music.
4. Having a healthy breakfast
Skipping breakfast is a temptation many succumb to, but that bowl of cereal or that plate of eggs and toast has a lot to contribute to your productivity during the day. Take the time to enjoy your morning meal!
5. Organising, organising, organising!
Successful people make organisation a part of their early morning routine. They manage their time well to complete big and small tasks, from making the bed to packing lunch boxes, tidying the house, sending kids to school and going to work.
6. Thinking positive
Another important aspect of a productive morning routine is to welcome each day as a new one with a positive attitude. Forget about yesterday and what stressed you out. Take today as an opportunity, not a burden.
7. Mapping the day
Chalk out a plan for the day as soon as you wake up, preparing a mental to-do list, along with the order of tasks and allocate adequate time to each one. This will do wonders for your productivity and success.
8. Treating yourself well
Realise the importance of pampering yourself as it makes you feel good and confident. Follow a daily skin care routine and give some thought to choosing your outfit and makeup before going to work.
9. Exercising the brain
Successful people start the day not only with a physical workout but a mental one too. This can include reading a book, going through the newspaper or solving a crossword puzzle.
10. Not procrastinating
Procrastination ruins chances of success as it throws you backwards. Start every day with an active morning routine and surge ahead.
Set your priorities and boost your confidence by giving yourself a pep talk every morning. You’ll be amazed at the change and will wonder why you never did this sooner! Read more
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Q. can I take zanocin 200 during breastfeeding
Rashmi
Mom of a 9 yr 8 m old girl
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A. I’m not aware about what medicine it is for I can only tell you that these basic medicines you can take throughout your lactation it’s not a problem the medicines that you could take before your pregnancy can always be taken during the time of lactation
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Q. #asktheexpert mam iam 33 weeks now when can I expect delivery date
Rashmi
Mom of a 9 yr 8 m old girl
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A. The basic delivery date is normally 39 to 3 40 weeks of your pregnancy whenever you are ready for your delivery and whenever you hit your labour that’s going to be the right time for you further move your Dr is going to tell you when are you going to deliver with the help of an ultrasound
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Q. iam 33 weeks pregnant now
Rashmi
Mom of a 9 yr 8 m old girl
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A. What is your question associated with your pregnancy that you haven’t mentioned clearly can you please repost your question providing all the necessary details so at least I know and understand what are you willing to ask and accordingly I can give you help and assistance on that
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Q. I am 23 weeks 1 day pregnant. I was feeling the movements actively until today. Baby movements were not that good or maybe I didn’t feel it that way today. Is it a cause of concern? Should I wait for a day or two or should I go and see my gynaecologist?
Please suggest!
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Mom of 6 children
2 hours ago
A. please consult ur gynae asap.
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Q. she doing from yesterday at night time only once and she having breast milk as well as formula feed nan pro 1 ,I have concern about like this potty yellow and grey ,I want to know it's normal ???
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A. Loose motion are most of the time infective where it is associated with fever and vomiting and its known as gastroenteritis where symptbomatic treatment along wjith management for dehydration is required if loose motions are associated with foul smell mucous high grade fever than it could be bacterial infection which needs antibiotics treatment
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