What parents would not dream of having their baby was healthy? But when it comes to hardening, many moms and dads are frightened: they think that the crumb is still too small and weak for such procedures. Meanwhile, tempering children - is a simple and very effective way to improve the health of children and their immunity, and enhance the body's resistance to various adverse factors.

Do I need to tempering

Animals running around in the snow and did not get sick, sparrows sitting on the branches in the most hard frost, but not coughing. Why a person is able to catch a cold just because of the fact that soaked your feet or sat in a draft? The answer is obvious: a man accustomed to the heat, dryness and good conditions, so unfavorable environmental factors have such an impact on him.

Interestingly, newborn babies can adapt to a variety of conditions. There are many cases when tiny babies negligent mother was left in the rain or in the cold, and the children survived. Loved and cherished infants also have the ability to adapt, but this ability gradually disappears, turns off unnecessary. Loving parents provide your baby an ideal situation, the ability to adapt dies, and now the slightest draft becomes a serious stress to the body - stress that can lead to disease.

As a result, the child starts to hurt, and his parents think about hardening. But it makes more sense in the beginning not to disconnect the natural mechanisms that make the child resistant to external adverse factors. To do this quite a bit - not to make crumbs "hothouse plant" and longer walks with the child in any weather (except perhaps a very severe frost) from the first weeks of life. And then hardening the child simply does not need: natural mechanisms and so will function to protect the child from diseases.

Those who missed the moment, have lost the ability to return the child. This is done by tempering procedures. These procedures will help the child get sick less colds. This hardening of the infections can not keep, but for certain disease will be less difficult and lengthy, and the possibility of complications is significantly reduced.

As it is impossible to harden

Many parents, especially mothers, are afraid of hardening. Others, however, tend to get too carried away procedures, choosing the most extreme. Both of these approaches is completely wrong. If you take care of your baby from any drafts, in the future child will be hurt if the accident still would be in the draft. If the child correctly tempered, it will also be constantly sick.

Tempering should be part of a healthy lifestyle, not a compensation unhealthy existence. That is, if the child sits at home all day, does not walk, does not move, only watching TV or playing on the computer, hardening it is unlikely to help, although not hurt, if you carry out the procedure properly. If harden properly, the effect will be counter-productive: constant colds.

Incorrect hardening - is too strong effect on an untrained child's body. For example, pouring cold water will inevitably lead to colds, if before this child is constantly wrapped in hundreds of clothing items. The same can be said about light clothing on walks and air bathrooms.

The basic rules of hardening

If the temper of the child according to the rules, then over time the parents will notice a positive trend. The kid just will not feel good about themselves and less likely to get sick - it will become tougher and resilient. It is no secret that the vagaries of children in most cases are not caused by a bad temper and poor health.

How correctly tempered child? There are a few rules of tempering procedures:

• Tempering should be gradual. If air baths - the first five minutes, then ten, and only a week later their duration can be reduced to half. When pouring water or wiping, it is necessary to begin with a comfortable temperature, reducing its daily one degree. The intensity of the impact and duration increased gradually: abrupt changes will bring only harm.
• Tempering must be systematic. If you spend a few procedures, and then forget about them for a couple of weeks, and then again begin to temper the kid and again forget about it - the baby's health is not strengthened. Perhaps if the tempering procedure is carried out gradually, it does not get worse, but the child will still get sick. If we start tempering procedures, they must be carried out continuously, every day regardless of the weather and mood.
• Hardening should take into account the individual characteristics of the child. For example, if the child likes to play with water, why not give him that opportunity? And if he likes to walk barefoot, then let him walk more often - is also tempering procedures. But if the kid is shy to strip for receiving air baths, do not insist - albeit tempered by other means.
• The child must lead a healthy lifestyle, move more, eat only when hungry, spend more time outdoors. It is often aired the children's room and take it easy in their desire to protect the child from the slightest breeze. And while walking you should not coddle the child too much, let him better warmed movement.
• Begin hardening should be as soon as possible. Then it will not even hardening and maintaining the natural abilities of the baby to adapt to adverse conditions.

Do not experiment with your child. Bathing in the hole and walk barefoot in the snow is not more efficient than conventional air bath or sponging, but ill after such extreme procedures is a snap.

Maria Bykov

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