Parents hope that the baby is smart and obedient, and hope that the baby can develop a variety of good habits from an early age, because good behavior habits will benefit the child for a lifetime, and bad behavior habits are difficult to correct when they grow up.
To raise a smart baby, you must abandon three bad habits, otherwise the baby's brain will become more and more stupid. Of these three habits, the average family will account for at least one, do you have it at home?
The first bad habit: [ Eating sugar ]
Children are completely incapable of sweet things, such as cakes, ice cream, desserts, candy, drinks, etc., but excessive sugar intake can lead to many health problems.
1) Eating sugar affects the brain's mental activity
Have you found anything? When you finish eating, do you feel a little sleepy? Want to rest?
That's because carbohydrates are quickly converted into sugar, which is an indispensable nutrient for the human body, but it will affect the brain's ability to think, slow down the conduction between brain neurons, trigger drowsiness, and directly affect brain work.
The American Heart Association has published the results of a study that young children should consume 17 grams of sugar per day. If you eat 1200-1400 calories, this means that 7%-8% of the total intake comes from sugar, which is equivalent to 170 calories from sugar.
Needless to say, parents know that eating too much sweets can lead to slowed metabolism and obesity. Because sugar enters the body, it is partially converted into fat through digestive enzyme absorption. If left unchecked, not only will caries appear, but also increase the burden on internal organs, which is why more and more high blood pressure, high blood lipids, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will find children.
3) Eating too much sugar can easily cause mental irritability
Children eat too much sugar, the body spontaneously accelerates the decomposition of sugar, decomposition needs oxidation, will consume the oxygen content in the blood, insufficient oxygen content, the body will consume a lot of vitamin B1 to supply, this process will produce a lot of lactic acid, pyruvate and other metabolic substances, these metabolic substances in the brain retained too much, the child's mood is restless, become like crying, tantrums, decreased concentration, sleep difficulties and so on.
How to correct your child's bad habit of eating sugar?
1) Dietary structure adjustment
Parents should give their children a reasonable combination of diet, to ensure balanced nutrition, eat more coarse grains, vegetables and fruits of the intake increased, if the child has developed the habit of eating sugar, first use high-sweet fruits to slowly replace sweets, the fruit in a variety of ways to make the child's favorite form, so that children gradually get rid of the dependence on sweets.
2) Cultivate children's ability to delay gratification
Delayed gratification is an important training exercise, and studies have shown that the higher the person with this ability, the higher the achievement in adulthood, and the greater the chance of success.
You can ask your child that if you only eat 2 pieces of sugar today, you can eat 1 more piece tomorrow, if you eat 3 pieces today, you can only eat 1 piece tomorrow, so that the child can make his own choice. Exercise your child's endurance, and at the same time give up the habit of loving sugar, killing two birds with one stone.
The second worst habit: [ staying up late ]
1) Affects brain metabolism
Only when people are deeply asleep, the cerebrospinal fluid secreted in the brain will discharge the waste products produced in the brain with the blood, which is a necessary condition for brain metabolism.
People's deep sleep is generally at 10 pm - 5 am, so the child should go to bed at 9 o'clock, and transition from light sleep to deep sleep in advance to ensure that cerebrospinal fluid plays a role.
At night, the brain does not get the rest it deserves, which not only affects the ability to think, but also significantly reduces memory.
2) Affects height development
In addition to cerebrospinal fluid, growth hormone in the pituitary gland is also secreted at 10 o'clock - 5 o'clock, peaking at 2 am - 3 o'clock, missing this best time, especially more than 11 o'clock at night to sleep children, in the long run, the height will be significantly lower than other children of the same age.
The best way to avoid staying up late is to be more efficient
Now children's homework pressure is high, homework is too much to write, coupled with children's procrastination habits, often can not go to bed on time.
1) Play first after school and write homework
In this regard, parents should help their children improve their efficiency and adjust their work and rest time. Professor Li Meijin advocates that the first thing to do when you return home from school in the afternoon is not to let the child write homework first, but to let the child play for half an hour - 40 minutes. Come back and start writing your homework.
Children in school a day of learning consume a lot of brain power, if you can not rest at home, the brain is always in a tight state, but it is not conducive to learning.
Another important reason, active is the nature of children, sitting in the classroom during the day there is a large amount of excess heat energy in the body can not be released, play this time, just can relax, the daytime nowhere to put the restless release, and then sit down to study, the heart is more calm, more satisfied, the efficiency will be improved.
2) Cultivate children's sense of time
Children procrastinate badly, mainly because they do not have a sense of time in their minds, nor do they have a sense of the value of time. It is important to help your child build a clear sense of time first.
You can set a pomodoro alarm clock for your child, require that a small task must be completed within the specified time, and if it is not delayed for a few minutes and is not completed, the play time will be reduced by a few minutes.
The third bad habit: [ Watching TV and playing mobile phones ]
Entering the digital age, information explosion, everyone can not do without electronic products. We don't have to think of them as beasts of prey, because children are bound to grow up in such a big environment. However, in early childhood, we must strictly require the time for children to use electronic devices, and supervision should be in place.
1) Decreased active thinking ability
Because electronic products instill a passive way of thinking in people, if they are used for a long time, the ability to think actively will be greatly reduced. The most important thing for children to learn and grow is the need for active thinking. Watching TV and playing mobile phones for too long, the brain memory is reduced, thinking is rigid, lack of creativity, initiative, and learning is also unmotivated.
2) Language development is lagging behind
Electronic products are unilateral output, and children cannot communicate, so the child's language development will inevitably stagnate, the vocabulary will decrease, and the language center will gradually degenerate.
Children love to watch TV and play mobile phones, the key lies in the parents' inaction
Think about why children like to watch TV and play with mobile phones? Is there such a situation: the child asks his parents to play with him for a while, but the parents often do not care about the child, are unwilling to accompany the child, and cannot put it down with their mobile phones?
No child is naturally attracted to the TV mobile phone, in the final analysis, it is the parents' inaction that pushes the child to electronic products.
1) Parents lead by example
Modern people have been inseparable from computers, televisions and mobile phones, but at home, when they are with their children, parents should lead by example, put down their electronic products first, and devote themselves to their children wholeheartedly. Children are eager to get attention and love from their parents, and with the love of their parents, who wants to play with their phones?
2) High-quality companionship to increase parent-child time
When accompanying children, interact with children, read picture books together, play puzzles, spell lego, and even rehearse dramas with children, or take children out to ride, play ball, roller skating, swimming, both exercise and reduce dependence on electronic products.
Children grow up only once, and I hope that every parent can proudly say, "The most proud work of my life is my child."