Reward Your Kids Good Behavior

Reward your kids for good behavior are an important motivation for young children. Most of the time children need an incentive to reinforce child good behavior. But parents have to take precaution when rewarding your children especially if parents rely on material or monetary rewards. This will procreate wrong expectations as such that the child hold their parents at ransom and demand material rewards otherwise the child will continue with their bad behaviors.

Reward your child for behavior that is appropriate for the situation. Some times a simple comment or hug will do. Comment such as “Well Done”, ” You Did Great”, “Keep It Up” so on … Parents have a greater roles to play and influence on your child behavior. The example you set is a standard your child embraces. For example if you can’t keep own room clean don’t expect your child to tidy and clean their room too. Parents should never compare children because every child is different.

So what is the right kind of rewards to your children? Another things parents also concern is what best rewards system to implement, to rewards on regular basis or case to case rewards system. There is no fixed rules that rewards system that parents have to follow. In some circumstance a simple praise of encouragement is all that your child needs. Well if you are adopting a rewards system at times here are some guidelines for rewarding your child.

Guidelines For Rewarding Your Child

• First of all you need to assess your child what types of rewarding is most appropriate with your kids. It is all really depend on your child personality on how receptive your child is. Reward your kids accordingly.

• Every home have it own family culture and philosophy. It is important to work out a range of rewards which are consistent implemented. As I mention before sometime a simply gesture such as word of praise or “Thank You’ will build up your child’s self esteem in a long run.

• What good behavior you want to instill in your child must correspond to the right rewards.

• Remember not to expect too much from your child. The goals you want your child to achieve must be realistic and achievable.

• Material and monetary rewards is a big NO NO.

• Reward good behavior quickly and often and don’t “accidentally” reward bad behavior. It is alright right to correct some bad behavior but use mild correction only.

So parents start now and plan early to bring out the best in your child. The result can be invaluable for your children in the long run. Remember when reward your kids, set a correct expectation and the appropriate rewards to it. Your child will have a right frame of mind what is the right thing to do and best of all motivated to do it.

Here a list of Home Reward Possibilities for Preschoolers

• Going to the park or playground
• Helping out in making food to eat
• Having a horsy ride by swinging on parent’s foot
• Talking into a tape recorder
• Playing with playdough
• Helping mom or dad
• Helping in to wash a car
• Bouncing on the bed
• Staying up late not till 10.30 pm
• Having a bubble bath
• Delaying a nap
• Going outside at night
• Swimming
• Going to a beach
• Having a special desert like ice cream
• Sitting in the front seat
• Playing with friends
• Listening to a bedtime story
• Being lifted into the air
• Playing games
• Doing a puppet play
• Going out for hamburgers or pizza
• Going someplace alone with dad or mom
• Having a longer time in the bathtub
• Going on a trip to the zoo
• Playing educational computer game
• Riding on a bicycle with dad or mom
• Playing in the sandbox
• Going for a picnic
• Riding a tricycle
• Getting a piggy-back ride
• Riding on dad’s shoulders
• Playing a game with parent(s)
• Watching a video
• Going to a movies
• Playing ball with Daddy

Take Care of Your Children Eyes

How to take care of your children eyes? Myopia in Children is a fact and all parents have to concern on how to prevent it or minimize it to your children. While myopia (nearsightedness) is not totally a eye disease but it can cause blindness through retinal tears and detachments. Lots of millions dollars are spent each year to get surgical relief from myopia although it is next to none other solution but not all are successful. There are complications such as dry eyes and night glare. The best ways to treat myopia is to prevent getting myopia. To do that parents must train your children good eye care habits. But first lets get to know about our precious eyes.

The miraculous development of a human is a sight to behold. At only three weeks, after the sperm has fertilized the egg, the eye begins to develop from the brain and stem tissue. Even though at birth the child’s vision is limited and blurry, his eyes will continue to develop until at age three when his vision is the same as an adults. Eye care begins from the moment of birth on.

Eye exams are as important to the new baby as they are to grandmother. Even right after birth the pediatrician looks for any sign of congenital defect as well as any sign of cataracts or glaucoma. Diseases of the eye are not dictated by age alone. The eye exams will continue for the rest of the child’s life and are very important for a child so that the doctor can ascertain there are no visual problems. It is good to catch these things early so as to not limit the child’s absorption of knowledge through vision.

When the child becomes of age to begin school, often the teacher notices if the child has problems with his or her vision. It might come through a reluctance to try to read the blackboard or squinting to see words printed on a piece of paper. The teacher either will then usually talk with the parents about the problem or will send a note home advising of the need for an eye exam. The actual eye exam may be different from that of an adult. If the child cannot read, then shapes will take the place of the more common letters. The exam is a little bit more difficult for the eye care professional because of the communication level. If a vision problem is detected, the eye doctor may or may not recommend glasses. Often a vision problem is just age associated and the doctor may elect to wait to see if the child outgrows it. Otherwise eyeglasses are prescribed.

As our children are born and grow, their eyes grow with them. Those beautiful unfocused eyes of a newborn baby grow into the mature eyes of an adult. But, it is not without taking care of your children eyes. Children cannot take care of themselves so we take care of them. From pediatricians to teachers, a child is monitored to ensure healthy body and mind, including the eyes. Take care of your children eyes and they take care of you.

Myopia In Children | Practice Good Eyes Care Habits

Myopia in children can have a tremendous effect on the life of a child. What causes myopia? What myopia does? What you need to know about myopia? You may ask. Myopia or shortsightedness (nearsightedness) is a visual condition that causes your child with it to see object which are nearby with clarity while more distant objects appear blurred. This is because the image to form in front of the retina as opposed to on it. The cause of myopia has not yet been determined. However, children of parents with myopia tend to develop myopia more frequently than children with non myopic parents.

What contribute to myopia in children can be break down to this factors. Myopia in children doing “near work” and other medical complicated development of myopia include childhood illnesses, low birth weight, and nearsighted siblings as well as diet and nutrition. The “near work” factors which is environmental factor that is children spending too much time on example hand held gadgets such as gaming and entertainment devices, hand phones, personal computers. Spending time on school work too contribute to nearsightedness.

There is no cure for myopia and one of a way to prevent it from happening to your child is to practice good eye care habits. As the amount of time spending on “near work” is unavoidable. What we parents can do to encourage your child to practice good eye care habits so as in preventing myopia conditions from happening or worsening.

The likely symptom when your child contact myopia is when your child complain of headaches and you catch him squinting at the television, rubbing their eyes, blinking frequently than usual. Your child eye could be having problem, nearsightedness.

Here are some tips of nurturing good eye care habits for your child to reduce or prevent from myopia.

• When reading a book, the distance from your eyes to the reading material must be approximately 30 cm at most. Your Child should sit in upright position comfortable in a chair, not lying on the bed or floor. Lighting in the room must be good. There should not be excessive light to prevent glaring of eyes from the reading material. If you can, get the reading material font size in large print over fine print. This is to minimize the strain to your child eyes.

• When watching television, the distance from eyes to the TV must be approximately 2 meter at most. The room must be well lit and the television screen should be place on eye level. Sit upright avoid laying down while watching TV.

• When using computer, make sure there is enough lighting in the room. The monitor screen must be approximately 50 cm away from your child eyes. Adjust the brightness to reduce glare to a minimal amount and no other sources of light causes unwanted reflections into the monitor’s screen. Always seated upright.

• Always take a break at 30 to 40 minute intervals to rest your eyes. Look out at trees or any objects in a distance from your windows. Exercises your eyes to relax the eye.

• Wear prescribed spectacles where is necessary. Not wearing it can worsen and damage your child vision permanently.

• Provide your child with good balance of nutrients and vitamins.

Although there is no cure for myopia in children. Parents are responsible to guide children to practice good eye care habits. To educate them on what is myopia and what causes myopia and how to prevent from getting it. So take care of your children eyes.

Child Innocence or Wisdom?

These days it’s difficult to find true innocence in the world, but if you have ever watched a month-old puppy sleeping or gazed into the eyes of a toddler-aged child you can still see it.  At that age, everything is new and exciting, not routine and boring such as for the rest of us who have become jaded over the years.

Little kids, especially barely able to speak, watch and listen to everything.  All kinds of things fascinate them; the graceful motion of goldfish, the gentle waving of tall grasses, the color yellow, and the bouncing of a beach ball.  All the things adults take for granted, toddlers find endlessly amazing.  They believe everything we tell them; they have no concept of lying, or even fanciful jest.  Myths, childhood legends, make-believe, wonderful fantasies of all sorts and even bogeymen that lurk in their closets at night are all real to them. Kids believe it just because we say it.  Like the sleeping puppy, their total absence of guile seems to last such a short time!  This innocence seems to vanish within the first few years of their lives, never to be reclaimed.

What takes the place of childish innocence?  We can only hope that it is wisdom.  As children learn the ways of the world, this knowledge can sometimes be disappointing.  There’s no such thing as Santa Claus or Superman.  The tiny puppy grew into a big dog that bites if its ears are yanked.  Grandmother died – she isn’t “sleeping.”  And there are monsters, but they don’t live in the closet at night; they are teachers and babysitters and the nice man next door who has some strange pictures of naked kids.

Sometimes a child’s wisdom is born from simplification. They seem to reduce everything down to the bare minimum and accept that for what it is.  They know nothing of the politics behind a bombing nor do they understand the complex science behind the hurricane that took away a house. It is what it is and it happened ‘just because’. When Mommy and Daddy no longer live in the same house, do children understand that sometimes relationships simply run their course? Of course not.  All they know is that Daddy went away to live somewhere else or that Mummy said they had to leave the home for a different one and that everything will be fine.

Strange, isn’t it?  Even when they know the truth, little kids still have the wisdom to tell it like it is and cope with it, whatever “it” may be.  They don’t have ulcers, drink too much alcohol, or brood about ways to take revenge on someone who hurt them.  They trust that they’ll have food to eat and clothes to wear.  They don’t worry about paying the mortgage; they just put their toys away before bed like Mommy said.  As adults, it seems incredible that we too were once as innocent as our youngest children are now. Then life happened – so did divorce, addiction, unemployment, war and illness.

So many times, it is all too easy to sigh and say that this is how life has to be for our children too. But even when Pandora released evil upon the world, hope remained in the box. Maybe our children will inherit a better world; we can certainly do our best to hope for that. Not everyone surrenders the innocence of youth and some folks are lucky enough to maintain a small portion of it as they age.  If our toddlers can do this without becoming bitter or jaded by the worries of the world, then they have gained true wisdom.

Symptoms Of Your Toddler Being Bullied

There are always bullied in school that include pre-school too. In 2005, a national survey reported that an astonishing 63% of children ages four through ten say they are or have been bullied by other children of the same or similar age.  The same survey found that only 18% of these children’s parents or caretakers knew or suspected that their child was being bullied.

So mothers of toddler don’t be alarm when that happen to your child. It part of growing up. When you send your toddler off to pre-school, the last thing on your mind is that something might go wrong. While you are out running your daily errands or simply enjoying a little spare time on your own, there is a possibility that your toddler could be threatened with physical or emotional harm in your absence. Here are some pointers to take note that and it for you to know the signs that would indicate that all is not well?

Bullying is defined as one person using his/her age, size, and aggressive nature to hurt and control other, vulnerable children.  Bullies are people who have a very poor self-esteem and dominate others in a futile attempt to increase their sense of self-worth. Bullies can be any age, gender, or ethnic class.  Young bullies, if their behavior is unchecked, become older bullies.  In children, the psychiatric diagnosis of Conduct Disorder is just the beginning of the development of cruel, dominating behavior, refusal to follow social and family rules, substance abuse beginning at a young age, gang affiliation, school suspensions and learning disorders, and a lack of remorse for their actions.  As these children reach age 18, they are diagnosed with the Antisocial Personality Disorder; in most cases, this diagnosis results in criminal behavior.  An estimated 89% of prison inmates in this country are ASPD.  This personality disorders are not “curable;” it’s indicative of deeply-ingrained personality characteristics.

The following is a checklist of symptoms that your toddler may exhibit if he/she is being bullied:

- Depression; apathy, irritability, agitation, insomnia, low frustration tolerance, inability to concentrate, bed-wetting and lack of appetite.

- Fearfulness; reluctant to attend pre-school or play dates, crying, feigning illness.

- Questions about “What would happen if…” concern about what happens in jail, “What if I told you a secret,” and “If I don’t like John, do I have to play with him?”

- Physical signs that seem suspicious; unexplained cuts, scrapes and bruises.  When asked, the child makes up a story that isn’t consistent with the injury.

- Missing personal items; the child comes home without his/her lunch box, loss of small change, missing clothing, games, and toys.

- Regressed behavior; acting younger than his/her age, speaking “baby talk,” clinging to parents, urinating or defecating in clothes, and wanting to eat baby food.

The hardest thing your child will have to do is tell you that he is being bullied. It’s scary for children to speak out, and if you were to think back to when you were your child’s age, you might be able to share a story or two about similar circumstances. At some point in our lives, each of us has gone the long way home to avoid getting caught by the school bully. Make sure that your child understands that he is not in trouble and that you can help them.

Naturally, if your child is being bullied at pre-school or at play dates, you’ll want to know where were the supposedly supervising parents or teachers?  Once your child has divulged the secret, you have every right to ask the adults why they failed to supervise what was happening at their home or at pre-school.  Don’t send your child back to a home where adult supervision is so lacking that he/she is being hurt.  If your child is being harmed in a pre-school, speak to the owner or top-level manager about the lack of supervision by the teachers.  If you get no satisfactory answers, remove your child from the school and report the harm done to your child to Child Protection Services.

A toddler can be devastated by a bully. For the first few years of their lives, most children have known nothing but mama’s love and affection and to have someone shatter that wide-eyed trust can be a crushing experience. Bullying can have very lasting effects, causing the child to grow up feeling helpless and angry. Often, children who are being bullied will develop learning difficulties and behavioral problems. Don’t be afraid to intervene and stand up for your child. Sometimes a child might be strong enough to stand up for themselves, but this isn’t always the case and your kids need your support whether they ask for it or not.

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