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Positive Attention and your Baby: Conquer the Hurdles
Offering positive attention to your child is the best way to encourage his development. It is a healthy way to communicate the behaviour you expect from them. Also, giving an encouraging response boosts a child’s confidence.
Children, who get a positive response to their needs and demands at home, feel more valued and turn out to become progressive individuals. Criticism or negligence can make them withdraw into a shell and become a cynical adult.
In the same way, babies can also feel unwanted and unloved, if you do not respond to their cries and little gestures. Thus, it becomes vital for parents to connect with their children on a regular basis in a loving manner. There are different verbal and non-verbal means of expressing positive attention to your child.
Importance of Positive Attention
Positive attention is nothing, but a way to show appreciation and delight towards your child’s behaviour. This fosters warmth in the relationship with your children and they feel loved and cared.
A child’s self-esteem is built with positive remarks, responses and loving messages from his parents and other key family members. This makes him feel capable of bringing pleasure to others and boosts up his morale and confidence.
A child faces challenges in different spheres of his life. If he gets intimidated by any unfamiliar situation, he looks up to his family members for support and assurance. This faith, in turn gives him the strength to face the challenges in a more organised way.
Overcoming Obstacles in the Path of Positive Attention
Life in present times, is full of personal and financial responsibilities. Unforeseen changes in lifestyle like job change, shifting to a new place or even planning a family occasion, drains the energy and leaves you distracted or depressed. If you feel overwhelmed with these negative emotions, instead of distancing yourself from your child, discuss your problems and situations with your partner or friends to let the emotions out. Do not let your relationship with your baby suffer because of any of these problems.
Work related stress is another common obstacle in the way of building positive attention with your children. Always make sure that you leave your work stress at office and try to spend quality time with your children. Make positive interactions with them and get energised with the warmth in your relationship.
Show Positive Attention to your Baby
Children like getting attention right from the time they are born. Even newborns tend to learn from and communicate with their surrounding environment. Positive interaction during this time is very beneficial for the baby. In the infant stage, you can communicate your love by hugging, comforting, smiling back and responding to the sounds of your little one. Your baby is going to love every bit of it and this will make him feel secured in the environment.
As your baby grows older, the positive attachment takes the form of encouraging words and actions. Engage in constructive activities with your children and encourage them with affirmative remarks. Pay attention towards them and show your participation through smile, eye contact or even thumbs up.
Positive attention gives a form of security to the child, that helps him to become a responsible and compassionate adult. By learning to build positive interactions, you will be able to nurture the bond of love and trust with your child. Read more
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Safety measures and precautions to all mothers and family members of child!!!
When a child take birth its a big day for parents and the family and this big day come with many responsibilities. Child safety is utmost priority of parents as well as family members because even a ignorance of few seconds can lead to harm to your child, i have tried to list some of the safety measures which i usually takes:
1. Installing geyser: You might be thinking how come this relates to a child safety but yes it is..during winter we often use emmerson rods but when your child is more than 5-6 months started crawling we should avoid it, it will be helpful when your child go for potty session in winter you can use warm water otherwise we have to boil water and taking the warm water to bathroom again a risk with your little one.
2. Never leave your child alone in Balcony: Never leave your child alone in the balcony, dont keep any chair or items by which child can stand, always accompany your child in balcony, terrace etc and even when you are carrying your baby dont let her peek out.
3.Never leave your child alone in Bathtub: Always accompany your child while taking bath in bathtub, do not full bathtub with water, even you are confident never leave your child even for a nanosecond.
4.Take care of Corners: In home we have wall corners edges, some toys which can harm the child while playing, always monitor your child when he is engaged.
5. Keep your child away from Switchboards & Iron: Children has habit of putting their fingers in the switchboards which is very dangerous, even we have to keep iron away from them, now a days we keep plugging the mobile chargers and child use to put in their mouth, keep away all the things from children reach which can effect them.
6. Keep your child away from Kitchen while cooking: keep the child away from kitchen while cooking, some times they want to on off the cylinder and gas knobs, children wanted to see what their mamma is cooking keep them away.
These are few things which i have written here, parents should be very cautious and always take precautions because just a fraction of seconds of ignorance can result into difficult time for child and family!! Read more
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Guardian of 0 children
4 hours ago
Q. #asktheexpert
Can we have sex during pregnancy and is it safe?
Dr Ghouse
Paediatrician
4 hours ago
A. okay no problem if you don't have any risk factors ko. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Q. Dr meri baby 12 month running hai uska weight 6 kg hai uska growth nahi ho pa Raha hai to kya kare or over active hai
Dr Ghouse
Paediatrician
4 hours ago
A. ok see c. if the baby is not having proper height and weight it means that baby is having failure to thrive baby needs investigations like TSH and other related test to find out the reason
Dr Sameer awadhiya has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
4 hours ago
Q. mere twins baby hai boy nd girl one month 8 days when I check eye and ear which month
Dr Sameer awadhiya
Paediatrician
4 hours ago
A. For the query asked needs consultation with doctor for proper guidance so it is better that the doctor will guide you the correct way .
Online consultation can also be taken jjand the expert will give you the proper answer .
Ankita Mehta has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
2 hours ago
Q. is white discharge in 8th month normal?
Ankita Mehta
Mom of a 8 yr 7 m old girl
2 hours ago
A. hi
yes
but if it is too thick or clear like water,if there other symptoms like itching, irritation, redness,foul smell from vagina, please visit your gynecologist
Dr Vandan H Kumar has added a new answer
Guardian of 0 children
2 hours ago
Q. My son is 5 months old is suffering from cough..what to do?
Dr Vandan H Kumar
Paediatrician
1 hour ago
A. give nasal saline drops every few hourly to the child in the nasal cavity.
try to prevent temperature variations around the child
you can go for indirect steam inhalation which will again help in decreasing both cough and cold
continue the regular diet of the child
if there is no improvement in few days then meet your doctoru
for fever and pain give paracetamol.u
anti-cold medicines at this age have got side effects so can be given only after medical consultation.
POOJA KOTHARI has added a new answer
Expecting Mom due in 6 months
2 hours ago
Q. hi. in Feb my period was last and I did pregnancy test in March its positive results but my belly is not being bigger
POOJA KOTHARI
Mom of a 7 yr 1 m old boy
1 hour ago
A. Typically, your bump becomes noticeable during your second trimester. Between 16-20 weeks, your body will start showing your baby's growth. For some women, their bump may not be noticeable until the end of the second trimester and even into the third trimester. The second trimester starts in the fourth month.
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