Parents are looking forward to their children growing up quickly,
But if growth becomes a "ripening",
Maybe the results aren't great...
According to the survey data released by the China Health Promotion and Education Association, the prevalence of precocious puberty in children on the mainland is 0.43%, and there are about 530,000 children in the country, but the medical treatment rate is low, affecting children's physical and mental health.
Breast development in girls before the age of 8, and secondary sexual characteristic development such as penis or testicular enlargement in boys before the age of 9, are considered precocious puberty.
"Precocious puberty" is not the fast development we think... It can affect a child's health for a lifetime!
However, many parents in China are ashamed to communicate sexual knowledge with their children, resulting in precocious puberty that cannot be "corrected" in time.
1. Affect your child's height
Precocious puberty is an endocrine disorder that can lead to excessively rapid growth in height and weight in children and accelerated bone maturation, with early epiphyseal fusion, affecting adult height. Some children, in the end, do not even reach a height of more than 150cm.
2. Adults have a high incidence of gonadal diseases
Studies have shown that girls with precocious puberty have a higher incidence of cervical cancer and breast cancer than the average person when they reach adulthood.
3. It affects the child's psychology
The psychological and physical development of children with precocious puberty is not synchronized, and some children have low self-esteem, uneasiness, panic, and even lead to psychological diseases such as depression because they are different from their friends in appearance.
6 behaviors secretly "ripen" children!
Attention Parents! These behaviors in life are secretly "ripening" your child!
1. Obesity
Children who are overweight or obese increase the risk of precocious puberty in children, where girls are higher than boys.
Recommendation: Children have outdoor activities every day, especially exercise of the lower limbs, and exercise for more than 30 minutes a day.
2. Fertilizing Foods
Overnutrition in children is also a potential contributing factor to precocious puberty. A British study of girls showed that too much protein and meat diet in early childhood can lead to early menarche and the risk of inducing precocious puberty.
Tip: Avoid fatty foods such as fried chicken, french fries, and crisps. Eat less sweets, but keep your protein intake and eat more fruits and vegetables. As long as the diet is balanced, there is no need to give the child special supplements such as colostrum, protein powder, zinc supplementation, iron supplement oral liquid, ginseng tea and so on.
3. Endocrine disruptors
Studies have pointed out that the higher the serum of BPA in girls, the greater the likelihood of precocious puberty, and the ovaries, uterine volume and BPA content are positively correlated. In addition to BPA, detergents, pesticides, etc. may also contain endocrine disruptors.
Recommendation: Do not use plastic bags to hold hot food, high-fat foods, etc.
4. Get in touch with love books and TV dramas too early
In romance books, film and television works, children have more opportunities to see words and pictures about love, which will stimulate the reflex of the hypothalamic pituitary gland nerve, and even lead to the early start of the hypothalamic pituitary gonad axis and promote gonad hormone secretion.
Recommendation: Let children have less access to relevant books and periodicals, and children do not watch adult TV with adults.
5. Sleep with the lights on at night
Turning on the lights at night to sleep, watching TV for a long time, etc., may reduce melatonin in the body, melatonin can restrain the release of pituitary gonadotropin, can avoid precocious puberty.
Tip: Develop the habit of sleeping in the dark. Do not watch TV for more than 3 hours a day. Do not expose your child to artificial light sources for too long.
6. Let your child use adult cosmetics
In addition to the ingredients that nourish and moisturize the skin, beauty products often contain a part of estrogen to make the local skin more smooth and shiny, and can also be absorbed through the skin to promote the development of women's secondary sexual characteristics.
Recommendation: Do not let your child apply adult makeup.
If you want to change your child, of course, you must start by changing yourself. Educating children and guiding children to deal with emotions is never a simple process, and parents need to be patient and lead by example. After all, the road to parenting is a long way to go.
Finally, I recommend a set of genuine children's emotional management books "Children's Emotional Management and Character Cultivation Picture Book" to parents, a full set of 10 books, including many classic picture books that we are familiar with, such as "Mother I Can Do", "Brave to Be Yourself" and so on.
This is a set of "picture books on emotional management and character development" written for children aged 0-6 years old, each book has a typical and clear theme, highly targeted, and covers almost all the personality problems that children may encounter in the process of growing up.
Each story has a different animal as the protagonist, which can attract children's interest in reading, and also meet the cognitive characteristics of the baby, and can also cultivate children's good reading habits.