Does every kid need Moidodyr, who will chase him around the city to make him wash? Before summoning the fabulous enemy of slobs, let the child clean up himself.
Personal hygiene, physical education, choosing a healthy diet - this is taught to a child from the first days of life. Most of all, parents should be concerned with how quickly and how consciously the child can repeat the experience of adults.
Getting rid of myths
Turning to children's literature, every adult will understand that children hate washing, brushing their teeth, and they prefer sweets from all dishes. Such ridiculous judgments could be taken for a joke if the memories of most adults did not confirm the described rule. What is innate depravity?
Are hygiene procedures unpleasant for babies? From a physiological point of view, taking care of the body and teeth does not cause discomfort, and the taste of most cheap sweets can hardly be called attractive. Aversion to good habits and cravings for bad habits in the younger generation are brought up by older family members.
The kid refuses not from hygiene, but from the wrong attitude towards him on the part of his parents. He does not need harmful delicacies, but attention and respect. It is bad if simple human relationships are replaced by symbols that harm the health of the child.
Self-care
The issue of personal hygiene can be tied exclusively to a personal need for such. A person is able to feel the difference between clean and dirty from the first days of life. It is natural to strive for a space where the risk of infection is minimal. The absence of pollution is one of the criteria for finding a safe living environment. Only the environment can break a natural property. The unnatural crowded living of large groups of people who have begun to lead a sedentary lifestyle is the reason for unsanitary conditions. In a child, one has only to support the natural craving for cleanliness and teach him how to maintain it.
It is not bad if the baby begins, like the elders, to refuse help in hygiene procedures. This is not a sign of distrust. Parents, on the other hand, do not believe that they are insulting the child by not allowing him to look into his mouth. This is a natural process of growing up.
Proper nutrition
Answer honestly to the question: are you ready to eat what your child eats? This is what your desire to form a healthy eating habit looks like. Anyone who is served insipid food on a daily basis will agree to prefer fast food to homemade food. To refer to the composition of what lies on the plate is useless. Evolution has not in vain endowed us with taste buds - they do not allow us to fill our stomach with inedible objects, or poison.
Adults are accustomed to the abundance of sugar in the diet of babies, replacing their attention with the cheapest confectionery products. The main component of the latter is sugar; later it can be used by an older child as an antidepressant. The same gross mistake as replacing love with sweets is refusing a baby with dessert. As soon as parental control is weakened, it will be possible to realize the dream of absorbing an unthinkable amount of goodies, poor knowledge of which will allow you to shove uniform garbage into your mouth.
Morning work-out
How many people want to start their day with exercise? Exactly as many as believe that minors dream about it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them. Each person has their own schedule of activity. Immediately after sleep, it is given to few to be vigorous and ready for gymnastics. If so, then, of course, you can go in for sports in the morning.
There is no need to arrange a morning drill with the execution of monotonous movements absolutely incomprehensible to the child. It will be much more useful to increase the time spent in the fresh air, to teach to warm up before participating in a yard competition, or an outdoor game, to help attract peers to the team. If children are engaged in the sports section, then the training regime is determined by the coach, it is better for household members to abandon the idea of creating an additional load for the growing champion.
Fostering self-discipline
To understand the benefits that a healthy lifestyle brings to the body, you need to think independently and in an adult way. This is what parents should teach. Cleanliness, physical activity and the choice of an adequate diet should not be encouraged from the outside as completing a task from a mentor. This can be praised as an adult act and rewarded with the right to take part in leisure activities such as hiking or going to a sports event.
You cannot convince a baby to follow the rules of a healthy lifestyle by deceiving him. The scary story of a boy who didn't brush his teeth and died can be double-checked by experiment. Once the lie is proven, all the recommendations of the overage dreamer will be rejected.
Respect for the individual is essential to instilling useful skills. The younger generation is not prisoners who are obliged to do what an adult dictates to them. They have the right to fulfill their needs for physical and spiritual development.
It is very difficult to re-educate a slob, a lazy person and a glutton. It is much easier to prevent such a personality from forming by hanging a vicious label on someone who wants to do the right thing, but does not know how. Only by having respect for the wards, you can teach them good.
