Guiding your child with positive discipline

Learn to discipline your child is one of the most important things you will do as a parent. It is also one of the most difficult. Discipline provides a healthy children behaviour  and a healthy and comforting home environment too.

Positive discipline guides the child and contributes to learning and develop good children behaviour. It helps your child grow and be a happy person, with:

* Self-esteem (which feels good about itself);
* Respect for others;
* Skills to help solve problems and faced in life.

The way you discipline your child very much depends on age, stage of development, personality and many other factors, but there are some basic ideas which can guide you.

The Canadian Paediatric Society strongly discourages corporal punishment, including spanking. Corporal punishment can hurt your child physically and emotionally. There are other more effective ways to approach discipline with your child.

How to encourage good children behavior
If the child behaves well, it’s not just luck. Parents have much to do to promote good children behavior. It is useful to know what influences the children behavior.

External forces refer to the aspects which the family has some control, including:

* Physical space: If the environment is quiet, comfortable and organized, your child will be more likely to behave well,
* Material: toys that suit the age of your child will interest and entertain.
* Routine: Organize your day so that your child knows what to expect. Provide planned activities and free activities, periods of quiet and active play. Try to spend a portion of all your days playing outside.
* Hours of Sleep: Naps are important for young children and should be integrated into your routine. Whenever possible, do not vary the hours of sunset and sunrise.
* Food: A hungry child may be irritable child. Eat meals at regular hours and offer healthy snacks between meals.
* Friends: The way your child’s friends the deal will affect its behavior.
* Television and other media: Limit screen time for your child. Children’s programming quality foster good children behavior, but violent games can make your child anxious and encourage aggressive behavior in some children.

The internal forces are things beyond your control. Your child has his own temperament (a type of innate behavior) that influences their reactions to events and people that make up his world. He also has a unique personality as you learn to understand over time. You can support your child:

* Respecting her feelings and thoughts;
* Respecting their ideas and comments;
* Being honest with him;
* Listening to him when he speaks.

How the development stage of a child affetcs children behavior?
Children  behavior is closely related to the age and stage of development, that is to say what they can do, learn, how they understand and experience the world that surrounds them. If you know what to expect from your child as he grows, you can use whatever means it has to teach him discipline.

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Anger is a normal and common event in children from an early age. Like any baby, your cries spitz or angry to express an emotion he can not even express in words. Some tips to apprehend those cravings!
 Between 1 and 3 years, aware of his own personality, baby tries to establish itself by requiring others will. Confronting its quest for pleasure to reality … Keys to better understand some of the reasons (obviously many) of his anger to deal with patience and firmness …

Try to “decode” the reasons for anger

“The anger of the child may be an expression of unease,” says Stephanie Cibiel, a psychologist at the Hospital Bichat (Paris). We must first determine the reasons for this anger. Is it feverish, tired or is it just a whim to test the adult? ” An infant cries or picnic even small crises to express a need, desire, pain, grief or fear. “When a baby is hungry, he Braille. It responds to the pleasure principle versus the reality principle,” says the psychologist, ie, it thinks only of satisfying his desires and spontaneously used this mode of expression to reach its goal. ” Baby is “Almighty” and does not yet know the reality, with its limits … He lives in symbiosis with his mother, both are one being. Then, between 1 and 3 years, he became aware of the existence of others and his own personality. He then wants to impose its will and rebelled against everything. At bedtime, he refused to undress or remove his shoes … A “nothing” the nerves. He rolls on the ground, red with anger … “Throwing a tantrum for the child, said the specialist, is part of its strategy to win something. It causes parents to measure their levels of resistance. If successful through its crises, why stop- it? ”

Impose his authority with patience and firmness “So around 16 months when the child begins to walk and talk, he must face the reality principle (as opposed to the pleasure principle mentioned above), ie that he must confront his search for pleasure in the reality. ” At this stage of life, parents should impose their authority and not to yield to his whims on the pretext that he is angry! Calmness and firmness are required. “The attitude of parents is paramount,” says the psychologist, since they are responsible for setting limits while remaining attentive to their child. ” A friendly gesture or a hug sometimes enough to calm the toddler. “Do not focus on his childhood anger, she says, because this mode of expression is also part of the normal development of the child should be positioned relative to others.” The boy proves he exists as an individual. “Unless, of course, says the psychologist, they are very frequent or they fall within a particular context, systematically after school or nursery, for example …”

Finally, difficulties of communication in the family (parents or siblings) may also be the source of anger too close. On this point, parents to be vigilant … bearing in mind that if anger is a family habit, the child will be happy, too, this mode of expression!

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I came across this schedule and thought that it will be good to share with all for your easy reference. But bear in mind that some of the vaccines are optional in some countries.

DTaP, to protect against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough):
• At 2 months
• At 4 months
• At 6 months
• Between 15 and 18 months (can be given as early as 12 months as long as it’s at least six months after the previous shot)
• Between 4 and 6 years old
• A booster shot at 11 or 12 years of age

Hepatitis A, to protect against hepatitis A, which can cause the liver disease hepatitis.
• Between 12 and 23 months, two shots at least six months apart

Hepatitis B (HBV), to protect against hepatitis B, which can cause the liver disease hepatitis:
• At birth
• Between 1 and 2 months
• Between 6 and 18 months.

Hib, to protect against Haemophilus influenza type B, which can lead to meningitis, pneumonia, and epiglottitis:
• At 2 months
• At 4 months
• At 6 months (not needed if the PedvaxHIB or ComVax brand of vaccine was given at 2 and 4 months)
• Between 12 and 15 months

HPV, to protect against human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and a cause of cervical cancer:
• Three doses between 11 and 12 years, for girls (one version of the HPV vaccine prevents genital warts in males, but isn’t on the official schedule)

Influenza (the flu shot or, for age 2 and up, nasal spray vaccine); two doses to protect against H1N1 flu and one to protect against seasonal flu:
• Age 6 months and up, every year in the fall or early winter

Meningococcal, to protect against meningococcal disease, the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in U.S. children in pre-vaccine days:
• Between 11 and 12 years

MMR, to protect against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles):
• Between 12 and 15 months
• Between 4 and 6 years old

Pneumococcal (PCV), to protect against pneumococcal disease, which can lead to meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections:
• At 2 months
• At 4 months
• At 6 months
• Between 12 and 15 months

Polio (IPV), to protect against polio:
• At 2 months
• At 4 months
• Between 6 and 18 months
• Between 4 and 6 years old

Rotavirus, to protect against rotavirus, which can cause severe diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and dehydration (given orally, not as an injection):
• At 2 months
• At 4 months
• At 6 months (not needed if the Rotarix brand of vaccine was given at 2 and 4 months)

Varicella, to protect against chicken pox:
• Between 12 and 15 months
• Between 4 and 6 years.

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I started this blog when my little prince was born in year 2007. It has been almost 4 years since then. I must admit blogging is not easy and requires a lot of time. I have been inactive and not updating my blog regularly.

One thing I realised is that this blog has been growing along with my little prince. It started with the articles about babies and as the years go by, my little prince grown from baby to toddler, the articles also grown from babies articles like breastfeeding, baby food, baby illness to potty training, vaccination for toddlers and toys for kids.

As my little prince grows, I tend to follow issues relating to his current age. That’s the reason for this blog to grow together with him. I think I should continue to post more babies articles to encourage new parents as they go through the challenge and fun of bringing up babies.

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Fisher-Price has recalled about 2.9 million (about 2.8 million in the U.S. and about 125,000 in Canada) infant playzones, playgrounds, and other toys with hazardous inflatable balls attached to them in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). 7 million Fisher-Price Trikes and Tough Trikes tricycles in the United States and 150,000 in Canada, 1 million high chairs (about 950,000 in the U.S. and about 125,000 in Canada) have also been recalled.

The valve on the inflatable balls on these toys can come off, posing a choking hazard to young children. Fisher-Price and the CPSC are aware of 46 incidents in the U.S. where the valve came off and eight similar incidents in Canada.

This recall involves all of the Baby Playzone Crawl & Cruise Playground, Baby Playzone Crawl & Slide Arcade, C3068 Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium, Baby Gymtastics Play Wall, and Bat & Score Goal toys..

This recall also involves the H8094 Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium and J0327 1-2-3 Tetherball manufactured before 2008. The date code for the Ocean Wonders aquarium toy is located on the back side of the quilt’s fabric tag. The date code for the J0327 1-2-3 Tetherball is located on the bottom of the base. If the fourth digit of the six-digit date code is 7 or less, the product is included in the recall. No other Fisher-Price products with inflatable balls are included in this recall.

The Baby Playzone Crawl & Cruise Playground, Baby Playzone Crawl & Slide Arcade, and Baby Gymtastics Play Wall were made in Mexico. The Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium, 1-2-3 Tetherball, and Bat & Score Goal were made in China.

As for the tricycles, A child can strike, sit on, or fall on the protruding plastic ignition key resulting in serious injury, including genital bleeding. The CPSC and Fisher-Price are aware of 10 reports of incidents resulting in injury. Six of the incidents required medical attention after young girls, ages 2 to 3 years old, fell against or on the protruding disc-shaped and D-shaped pretend key. The model numbers are located under the seat in the storage compartment. The pretend keys are located about 3 inches in front of the seat and protrude at least 5/8 inches above the trike’s body. The trikes are intended for children 2 to 5 years of age.

The trikes manufactured after June 16, 2010 are not included in this recall. These trikes have a modified key in a flattened D shape and a manufacturer run number higher than 1670Q2. The run number indicates the trike was manufactured on the 167th day of 2010 or on June 16, 2010. The run number is found under the seat below the model number

Fisher-Price high chairs have pegs on the rear legs of the high chair. Children can fall on or against these pegs, resulting in injuries or lacerations. Fisher-Price and the CPSC are aware of 14 incidents, including seven reports of children requiring stitches and one tooth injury

This recall includes the Healthy Care, Easy Clean, and Close to Me high chairs with pegs on the back legs intended for tray storage. All of these high chairs have a folding frame for storage and a three-position reclining seat. The model number and date code of the high chair are on the back of the seat. All Easy Clean and Close To Me high chairs are included in this recall. Only Healthy Care high chairs manufactured before December 2006 are included in this recall. If the fourth digit in the date code is 6 or less, the Healthy Care high chair is included in the recall

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