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Understanding Hand Preference in a Three Year Old
What is hand dominance and how important is it to understand your child’s hand preference? It’s essential to help your child establish her dominant hand and carry out basic tasks properly. Here are some ways to understand hand preference in your child.
Does your child use one hand more than the other while carrying out common tasks? If she uses her left hand promptly, then that is her dominant hand. Children as early as one year of age develop hand dominance; however, it may change as the child grows. Although, there’s no definite reason for a certain hand preference in a child, it’s believed that handedness depends on genetics, position of the baby in the womb and observations of the child etc. By the age of 5 or 6, your little one should have already established the final hand preference.
Facts about Hand Preference in Children
1. Importance of Hand Dominance in Pre-schoolers
Moms, as hard as you may try, establishing hand preference is not something that you can do on your own. At best, you may start looking for left-hand dominance in your preschoolers. In case you notice your kid using his/her left hand more frequently and spontaneously, chances are that the right hand will continue acting as the helper of the more dominant left hand in future too.
2. Bilateral Skills
Activities like skipping, beating a drum and throwing and catching a ball, require your child to use both her hands simultaneously. So, even if her left and right handedness is determined, you must make her do bilateral activities regularly. so her assistant hand remains active too. This will help in averting coordination delays as well.
3. Hand Preference Developing Activities
It’s difficult to answer the common query that points to when does a child develop hand dominance. However, there are certain activities that parents can introduce to kids for helping them develop their hand preference. Help her with tasks that involve one side of the body more than the other- e.g. tennis, flipping coins, playing darts. Such activities help in establishing hand dominance in pre-schoolers.
4. Switching Hands
Is your little one changing hands often while carrying out a single task? Kids switch their hands if they get tired. This indicates poor fine motor skills. If your child has right-hand dominance but uses her left hand for some time, and then starts using her right hand again, she needs to build endurance in her dominant hand. Massages, physiotherapy and other activities that strengthen the muscles can help!
5. Correlated Developments
Did you know that the hand preference development age of your child affects the development of other important skills like language and decision-making? This is because the development of hand preference has a direct correlation with the activities that rely on one particular side of the brain. So, gently and gradually, try your best to establish your kid’s hand preference as early as possible. You will be glad you did it.
Start introducing hand dominance activities to your tiny preschooler. Along with the development of handedness, she will also reach other mental and physical progressive milestones in time. Read more
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How to Condition and Nurture Your Child Without Trying "TOO" Hard
Initial years of a child are the parameters for his future development. What a child learns in the first 3 years of his life, shape and mould him for his future. In today's fast paced generation children start everything pretty early, and that becomes overwhelming for 1st time parents.
Well as it's said there are no set rules for parenting, and every parent curates their own rules today i'll be sharing a few rules that worked for us ''without trying too hard"
1.Start at the Very "START"
Yes that's true, there is no right time to start the "Conditioning" process.,so we should start from the very "start". While spending time with kids, start by reading to them, singing rhymes, alphabet songs ,number songs, and other creative stuff. These are the basic things which will help the children to recognise and learn these things faster in the future.
2. Practice Good Habits with Kids
Parents often find it very challenging to discipline their kids, and it's very hard and exhausting at times. But in order to inculcate good manners and habits, parents have to practice them with their kids. Like teaching them the use of polite words (Please,thankyou,sorry,excuse me, etc) teach them to pick up thier toys, put away dirty dishes, use dustbins etc. When we practice with kids what we are trying to teach them, then it builds a trust bond with them and these good habits automatically insinuate in them.
3. 'Inculcate' Not Impose
We often as parents try imposing everything on our children like our views, thoughts, feelings and basically everything. And that is where things go south, kids these days do not like being imposed with anything.They often like to take the charge and not follow instructions. So parents instead of imposing should try inculcating good through showing calmer responses, favourable gestures, and effective techniques for moulding kids in a specific way.
4. Set Rewards and Punishments
When it comes to conditioning the most important thing for a kid is to understand the consequenses of his/her actions. Every good deed, be small or big must be appreciated with set rewards and every bad deed must be served with a punishment. In this way a kids understands the consequences of every good and bad decision made by them and more often they end up making the right choices.
5. Instill Optimism and Confidence
The most important step of good parenting is to instill good faith,optimism and self confidence in kids. Not all children are the same, some might be good at one thing and the others might be good at something else. Never weigh down a child under your expectations. Try understanding their strong pursuit and focus on refining that talent, FOCUS ON STRENGHTS NOT WEAKNESSES. Fill your child with optimism and confidence and then they can rule the world!
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Q. hi have one question
LT 10x18mm and RT 18x20mm and ET 6.5
what it mean??? and should I start intercourse
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
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5 hours ago
A. since you are right follicle is 18 mm yes of course you can start with your intercourse for conception as in 1 to 2 days
their maybe rupture of the follicle by which your sperm should be present there for conception
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Q. #asktheexpert
why baby vomit
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A. for babies less than 6 months may not be a problem. small babies will be having lot of gas because of various reasons it is advisable to do burping of the baby immediately after feeding please give colimex DF drops to the baby they are safe
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Q. i am 35 weeks 3 days pregnant... my ultrasound report shows that "fl and hl are shorter compared to bpd"... is this anything to worry
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A. You should have proper consultation with your treating doctor , as some examination or investigations may be needful, so that proper medications can be given And the treatment can be done very properly.
needs proper follow-up for this
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A. use nasal drops , that acts faster .
You should have proper consultation with your treating doctor , as some examination or investigations may be needful, so that proper medications can be given And the treatment can be done very properly.
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Q. hi,
my LT 10x18mm and RT 18x20mm and ET 6.5 , what if I intercourse after 2 days, can I do intercourse in ovulation day can become a pregent .
on ovulation day if we intercourse can become a pregent..pls advice..
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
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29 mins ago
A. since the follicle size is 18 to 20 mm your ovulation may occur within 24 hours also so if you have intercourse with in that time it will be more effective to get conceived
your endometrial growth is not good enough for conception but still you can just try
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A. Hello dear! If your pregnancy is going on fine without any high risk factors then it’s okay. Still, would advise you to check with your doctor once before going further. Maintain a good personal hygiene routine and a healthy lifestyle
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