Smarts Tips for Your Family

Difficulty eating or always reject food that is not his favorite or picky eater common in toddlers. This condition is not only irritating but also makes parents anxious about the nutritional adequacy.

Feeding a toddler is simple, before he learned to understand the independence and favorite foods. For the parents need to get around for the little guy do not turn into a "monster" at mealtimes.

Here are some tips that can be practiced parents to prevent children become picky eater.

1. Recommend since the beginning
Introduce different types of flavors of food from the beginning, even before he could chew. Some experts say if a fetus in the womb can feel what's already eaten his mother. So, since you are pregnant you should eat a variety of healthy foods.

You can forward habit of eating different types of food when breastfeeding time so the baby began to recognize the taste of food through breast milk. Then begin to introduce vegetables before fruit first. If the child later reversed tend to prefer sweet flavors.

2. Only eat in the house
Only serve healthy food at home and do not make the difference between a child and parent menu. Forget the habit of storing a variety of unhealthy snacks in your fridge.

3. Eating together
The children always imitate those around him, especially his parents. Because it sees you always eat healthy food will encourage them to do the same. If children want to try the food on your plate so that the experience he can give it to the taste and texture of food is getting rich.

Avoid making a distinction between "kid foods" with food "parents". If the child is old enough to understand the explanation, telling that he is now a "big boy" and eats adult food like father's mother. The concept of the "big boys" will usually make the children proud and more willing to switch foods.


4. Hide nutritious food
Make sure that any kind of snacks that children eat nutritious. You can hide healthy foods in a variety of favorite foods. For example, hide spinach and carrots in the batter cakes. Or if your child is like eating French fries, vegetables make fried flour-coated pieces.

5. Start with the rules of the "one bite"
A large platter with different types of food can make kids feel pressured to spend. Better serve in small portions to a type of food that children eat more intrigued. After he spent, he may want to choose other foods eaten. Tell your child how delicious the food that you have created and make sure you eats well and enjoy it.

6. Wait hungry
Children who are hungry will usually be easier to eat all the food offered. But wait until hungry children can make parents anxious because there are children who seem never hungry despite eating a slice of bread a day recently.

Offer food to children at mealtimes. If the child is always rejected, do not immediately give up and make him some milk.

Child Education- Sex education (sex education) is a problem of information regarding human sexuality, including the process of conception, gestation until birth, sexual behavior, sexual intercourse, and health aspects are clearly and correctly. But until now, people's views on sex education are still fairly narrow.

So far, all we are talking sex, then that appear n the minds of most people is sex. Though it means sex distinguish men and women are biologically. Until now, there have been no educational or social institutions that provide adequate information about sex and relationships.

Sex education for children  is supposed to be introduced early in the child either through formal or informal education. Family Planning Association in England from the age of four years said children should be given sex education. This is intended to reduce the number of abortions and sexually transmitted infections among adolescents.

Sex education will help your baby to understand the reproductive organs and associated with sexuality. Early on, children should be taught to know his body parts and basic differences between male and female sexuality and the relationship between them.

Here are the benefits of sex education.

1. To find sexual information for adolescents
2. So that children have awareness of the importance of understanding the issue of sexuality
3. So that children have awareness of sexual functions
4. In order for children to understand the problems of adolescent sexuality
5. In order for children to understand the factors that cause sexual problems.

You may just realize the importance of sex education after the rampant cases of promiscuity among teenagers appear is increasing from year to year. Promiscuity fueled by increasingly sophisticated technological advances and global economic factors. However, it is not only the cause of the increased promiscuity, the most important is sex education for your child.

Sex education is also very necessary to anticipate, learn, and prevent activities capable of avoiding promiscuity and other negative impacts. The role of parents assisted by educational institutions or other supporting agencies is needed to teach sex education from an early age in children.



Some smart kids ask many thing to their parent. So what if the child is asking about sex? Here are tips for answering child question about sex (source: Parenting magazine)

Ask a question
"Like what you hear?" Then continue with "You think about what about it?" If what you hear is not accurate child, try to justify such information.

Give understanding
If your daughter heard about the menstrual cycle, give details of that process that occurs normally in the body of every woman and let them know in a way as simple as possible, said Lynne Kenney, Psy.D. a pediatrician of psychology in Scottsdale, AZ.

"You do not have to explain about sex now, unless your child to hear about it too," he said. If that is the case, explain the science that does not explain about the romantic aspect of the relationship. Still explain that babies come from eggs and sperm. If curiosity has been missed, your child will definitely change the subject of the question.

Mute child anxiety
Changes in your child's body will be scary. "Make sure your child that it is normal to feel worried, and you will always be there to help him," said Kenney, makers of The Family Coach Method.

Ask him if he feels better if he receives more information. If so, choose a book to read together. Example: The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls and the Boy's Body Book.

Share with other parents
Think to share this with other parents so that they are more concerned with their children as well. For example, say if your child has started asking about her and you've still given knowledge base.

Smart Kids -Brain intelligence or IQ may be able to make us get a job, but EQ - the one that will make us get a promotion at work! EQ (Emotional Quotient) or Emotional Intelligence is awareness and the ability to manage one of the emotions in a healthy and productive properly. That means it takes IQ and EQ are balanced in this life.

If we think IQ is everything and more important, then consider the statement of Daniel Goleman, in his bestselling book Emotional Intelligence, EQ who believe that learning can be useful in all things. For example, in a company, EQ can help in terms of acceptance of their employees. For the parents, by studying and honing EQ, it can help their children to face the challenges of life.

A research says, a child who has a high EQ child will grow into a popular and successful in school. Therefore parents should be aware of, not only the technical skills and scientific knowledge, but the ability of self-control and live in the community is also very important for the growth and development of children.

Broadly speaking, emotional intelligence is divided into two terms, namely to recognize and manage emotions. There are four characteristics of children who have high EQ, that he has a sense of responsibility (responsibility), has the motivation to move forward (self motivation), is able to control the balance of self or emotions (self-regulation), and is able to cooperate with others (people skills).



Here are the ways that can be used to teach EQ in your child:

Respect your child's feelings, without having to show them that you actually own find it difficult to deal with your child's emotions. Learn to handle it.

Teach your child to express feelings of what they was feeling at that moment.

Try to share your feelings with the child, but do not involve the children in the problem you are facing. Simply show that you too have the same feeling with them.

Being a role model in dealing with all kinds of problems that are being faced. If you yell when you're angry, then the child will follow the "trail" you.

Try to be sensitive to knowing and to feel what your child is feeling.

Listen to them and give feedback. Like saying, "You look sad. Did anyone want to talk about?"

Give the child time to cope with their feelings. Do not be too pushy to tell what she was feeling. Let everything go slowly.

Do not let your emotions provoked when faced with an angry child.

Let the kids get angry and spill all of his emotions, but do not let the child misbehaves. For example stone or beat you.

Because you are a good role model for the child to express something, then you should be able to control emotions well in front of the child. If you feel not hold the emotions again, you can write it in the diary or talk to your husband, family or next of kin.