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Healthy and Tasty Food for Your 6-month-old Baby
Hello to all the super women (mothers) out there. I'm a mother of cute, naughty twins (a boy and a girl). They are six-and-a-half-month-old and have started having solids since half a month. I have tried some recipes for them which I think are great for their health. My babies were born premature and their birth weight was only 1.7 kgs each but now they have grown up to be 7 kgs each. They are truly a miracle for me. So, now let me share the recipe with you.
Millet Rice Porridge (Bhaidku)
Bhaidku is a Gujarati recipe, and since I am Gujarati, I thought I could share this recipe with you. In my family, Bhaidku is a tradition now. My great grandfather used to have it in dinner every single day and this tradition has continued to be our favourite since then (or even before). Bhaidku is healthy, light, and nutritious.
You will need:
1. Bhaidku aata (you'll find it in any grocery/general store. If not, its made with millet, rice, and green half moong after grinding.2. Water3. Turmeric
How to Make
1.Take 1 or 2 tablespoons of bhaidku aata in a bowl and slowly add water to it. Mix it well so that no lumps are formed.
2. Heat some water (approximately 2 cups) in a sauce pan.
3. Let it simmer for half a minute then add turmeric to it. When the water starts boiling, add the mixture made from bhaidku aata and water, and keep stirring until it becomes semi-liquid.
4. Turn off the flame, your millet-rice porridge (bhaidku) is ready.
This healthy recipe can be tried by anyone - it's healthy and tasty! You can serve it with milk and ghee to your baby. Your baby will love it, and you will be happy on seeing your little one eat healthy food.
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The moment you turn into a parent, you are buried under information deluge. Parents, neighbours, friends and the internet will often come up with completely divergent advice and leave you feeling lost. Here's some help as you try to separate facts from fiction. Read on to find out the truth behind some of the most common parenting myths.
Parenting is a journey full of doubts. It is scary to think that the decisions you take, your thoughts, your behavior and your interactions with your child create an impact on him for life. It is natural that parents look out for reassurance at each step. Should I pick him up when he’s crying? Should I dread the teens? Should I give him sugary foods around bedtime?
Small and big – there are hundreds of decisions you need to make each day. There’s plenty of advice all around too. However, it will serve you well to remember that a lot of age-old wisdom just might not hold true. Here we try to debunk a few popular myths.
Common Parenting Myths
1. Parenting Comes Naturally
This one is the biggest myth of all. It, most certainly, does not. It is absolutely normal for a first-time parent to feel lost, helpless and frustrated with the idea of how to handle the tiny being they’ve brought into the world. Do not hesitate to seek help from moms, friends or dear old Google.
2. Picking up the Baby when he Cries is Bad
When your newborn cries, it’s a call for help. He is looking for security. The first few months of his life are crucial to build a strong parent-baby bond. An answer to his cries comes as an assurance to him that he is loved and cared for. Do pick your baby when he calls out for you.
3. The Twos are Terrible
Each stage of a baby’s life comes with challenges of a different kind and so do the twos. Your baby is walking now, and that’s a big trouble, but he’s also lisping out words, responding to you and starting playschool and those are such absolute delights. So, it’s a mixed bag, just like every other stage.
4. Parents Should be ‘Friends’ with Their Children
Children need parents not friends. It comes naturally to them to push boundaries and look for more freedom as they grow. By treating them as friends too early in life, you might be doing them an injustice. Getting to be treated as an equal should happen slowly over the years as they grow past teenage.
5. Bribing Kids is a Bad Idea
There is hardly a parent who hasn’t offered his child a ‘deal’ during the parenting journey. Bribery has got a bad name. It is better to look upon it as an incentive. Used sparingly, it works well. A system of rewards balanced off with punishment is what works for most children.
6. Do not Fight in Front of The Kids
This one comes with a cautionary note. If you feel the fight will escalate into a shouting match, take it out of the kids’ hearing. However, shielding them from every disagreement is unnatural. As they get older, kids understand that people have differences. However, do ensure you make up when the kids are around too. How you fight and make up will serve as good life lessons for them.
As a last word – take all advice with a pinch of salt. Listen, analyse, try and think if it will work well for you before you start to follow any parenting idea. Read more
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A set of theories have been tested over time to contribute to a child's development. Today, we are discussing a few such approaches that schools and parents alike apply.
The Maturational Theory:
The work of Arnold Gessell advanced the maturational theory. Maturationists believe that development is a biological process that occurs automatically in predictable, sequential stages over time. This perspective leads many educators and families to assume that young children will acquire knowledge naturally and automatically as they grow physically and become older, provided that they are healthy.
School readiness, according to maturations, is a state at which all healthy young children arrive when they can perform tasks such as reciting the alphabet and counting: these tasks are required for learning more complex tasks such as reading and arithmetic. Because development and school readiness occur naturally and automatically, maturations believe the best practices are for parents to teach young children is to recite the alphabet and count while being patient and waiting for children to become ready for kindergarten.
If a child is developmentally unready for school, maturations might suggest referrals
to transitional kindergartens, retention, or holding children out of school for an additional year. These practices are sometimes used by schools, educators, and parents when a young child developmentally lags behind their peers. The young child's underperformance is interpreted as the child needing more time to acquire the knowledge and skills required to perform at the level of their peers.
Environmentalist Theory:
Theorists such as John Watson, B.F. Skinner and Albert Bandura contributed significantly to the environmentalist perspective of development. Environmentalists believe the child's environment shapes learning and behavior. Human behavior, development, and understanding are thought of as reactions to the environment. This perspective leads many families, schools, and educators to assume that young children develop and acquire new knowledge by reacting to their surroundings. Kindergarten readiness, according to the environmentalists, is the age or stage when young children can respond appropriately to the environment of the school and the classroom (e.g., rules and regulations,
curriculum activities, positive behavior in group settings, and directions and instructions from teachers and other adults in the school). The ability to respond appropriately to this environment is necessary for young children to participate in teacher-initiated learning activities. Success is dependent on the child following instructions from the teacher or the adult in the classroom. Many environmentalists influenced educators and parents to believe that young children learn best by rote activities, such as reciting the alphabet repeatedly, copying letters, and tracking numbers. This viewpoint is evident in kindergarten classrooms where expected young children sit at desks arranged in rows and listen
attentively to their teachers. At home, parents may provide their young children with workbooks containing such activities as coloring or tracing letters and numbers activities that require little interaction between parent and child. When young children cannot respond appropriately to the classroom and school environment, they are often labeled as having some form of learning disability. They are tracked in classrooms with a curriculum designed to control their behaviors and responses.
Constructivist Theory:
Jean Piaget, Maria Montessori, and Lev Vygotsky advanced the constructivist perspective of readiness and development. Although their work varies greatly, each articulates a similar context of learning and development. They are consistent in their belief that learning and development occur when young children interact with the environment and people around them. Constructivists view young children as active participants in the learning process. In addition, constructivists believe young
children initiate most of the activities required for learning and development. Because dynamic interaction with the environment and people is necessary for learning and development, constructivists believe that children are ready for school when they can initiate many of their interactions with the environment and people around them.
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