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How to properly temper the child?
To begin water, air and sun procedures, it is necessary to clearly understand the basic principles of how to begin to harden a child:
- Graduality. Lowering the water temperature is carried out in 4 - 7 days, 2 degrees.
- Constancy. If you start to temper the baby, then do not miss a single day (exception - the disease, the parents' laziness in the list of valid reasons is not included).
- Adhere to a rational diet, limit "communication" with gadgets (TV, tablet, computer) and provide children with night and day sleep.
- There must be moderation of mental loads. The desire of parents to write a son or daughter to all the clubs and sections will have to be left.
- After bathing, let the baby lie down for a few minutes naked. How to temper a child, depends on the characteristics of his age, nature. But the general principles exist.
How to begin to temper the child?
For infants under one year old,following a normal daily routine and dressing according to the weather will do. Sleeping in the fresh air is already good. Night rest should be at a room temperature when the mother already wants to put on woolen socks (+19 - 21 degrees). Other features of hardening babies:
- Sunny baths are taken strictly atthe temperature is between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius. At first the toddlers lie on the sun or run (in headgears) for 3 minutes, then 5-6 and longer. Breastfed sun is harmful (in winter doctors can prescribe vitamin D).
- They bathe children from 12 months in the water from 33 degrees in the warm season, from 36 in the winter. The degree is lowered every seven days. The final result is 24 Celsius.
- Trays for feet, dousing and wiping startfrom 27 degrees, gradually reaching 18. In the bath you can pour water on the ankle, put a non-slip mat - let the child walk along it, spank your legs, and be drowned.
- Cool hands wipe their hands to the shoulder and legs - from the feet to the knee. The body is not forgotten to wipe dry, rubbing.
It is also useful to gargle with cool or salt water, give the children ice cream or ice cubes (they take a long slice and swallow).
How to temper a child in 5 to 6 years?
As they grow older, the heirs demand the sameattention, as before. A Finnish sauna and contrast showers are added to the list of previous activities. The baby is taken to the sauna with him so that he stands in the dressing room for a few seconds, then goes into the steam room - for 10. The alternation occurs 5 times. How to properly harden a child by dousing under a contrast shower, Evgeny Komarovsky says:
- minute under hot water, 20 seconds - under cold. Alternate 5 times;
- will not prevent hardening and parents. A vivid example of authoritative people before our eyes is one of the important points of successful hardening.
The process should be enjoyable and leave a smile on the face, and the child's medical record should not contain a single entry about colds. Read also:
