To raise a smart baby, we must abandon three bad habits, otherwise the baby's brain will become more and more stupid. These three habits, the average family will account for at least one, does your family have it?
The first bad habit: eating sugar.
Children can't cope with sweets at all, such as cakes, ice cream, desserts, sweets and drinks. But excessive intake of sugar can lead to many health problems.
1) Eating sugar affects brain activity.
Have you noticed? Will you feel a little sleepy after dinner? Do you want to rest?
That's because carbohydrates are quickly converted into sugar, which is an indispensable nutrient for human body, but it will affect the thinking ability of the brain, slow down the conduction between brain neurons, cause drowsiness and directly affect the work of the brain.
The American Heart Association announced the research results, and the daily sugar intake of children should be17g. If you consume 1200- 1400 calories, it means that 7%-8% of the total intake comes from sugar, which is equivalent to 170 calories from sugar.
Undoubtedly, parents all know that eating too many sweets will lead to slow metabolism and obesity. Because sugar enters the human body and is absorbed by digestive enzymes, some of it will be converted into fat. If not controlled, it will not only lead to dental caries, but also increase the burden on internal organs, which is why more and more hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will find children.
3) Eating too much sugar can easily cause mental irritability.
When children eat too much sugar, the body will spontaneously accelerate the decomposition of sugar, which requires oxidation and will consume the oxygen content in the blood. When the oxygen content is insufficient, the body will consume a lot of vitamin B 1 for supply, and in this process, it will produce many metabolites such as lactic acid and pyruvate. If these metabolites remain too much in the brain, children will be anxious, cry, lose their temper, lose their attention and have difficulty sleeping.
How to correct children's bad habit of eating sugar?
1) Adjust the diet structure
Parents should give their children a reasonable diet, ensure balanced nutrition, eat more coarse grains, vegetables and fruits, and increase their intake. If children have developed the habit of eating sugar, first slowly replace sweets with fruits with high sweetness, and make fruits into the form that children like in various ways, so that children can gradually get rid of their dependence on sweets.
2) Cultivate children's ability to delay gratification.
Delayed gratification ability is an important training. Research shows that the higher the ability, the higher the achievement in adulthood and the greater the chance of success.
You can ask your child, if you only eat 2 pieces of candy today, you can eat 1 piece tomorrow. Eat 3 pieces today and only 1 piece tomorrow, so that children can choose for themselves. Exercise children's endurance, and at the same time, you can quit the habit of eating sugar, killing two birds with one stone.
The second bad habit: staying up late
1) affects brain metabolism.
Only when people are in deep sleep, the cerebrospinal fluid secreted in the brain will discharge the waste produced in the brain with the blood, which is a necessary condition for brain metabolism.
People usually have deep sleep in the afternoon 10? 5 o'clock in the morning, so the child should go to bed at 9 o'clock, and transition from shallow sleep to deep sleep in advance to ensure that cerebrospinal fluid plays a role.
The brain can't get proper rest at night, which not only affects the thinking ability, but also obviously reduces the memory.
2) Affect height development
In addition to cerebrospinal fluid, pituitary growth hormone is also in 10? The secretion is strongest at 5 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the morning? Reach the peak at 3 o'clock and miss this best time, especially for children who sleep after 1 1 at night. In the long run, their height will be significantly lower than other children of the same age.
The best way to avoid staying up late is to improve efficiency.
Nowadays, children are under great academic pressure and can't finish their homework. Coupled with their habit of procrastination, they often can't sleep on time.
1) Play first and do your homework after school.
In this regard, parents should help their children improve their efficiency and adjust their schedules. Professor Li Meijin advocates that children should not be allowed to do their homework first, but should be allowed to play for half an hour after school in the afternoon? Forty minutes. You didn't start doing your homework until you came back.
Children's study at school requires a lot of brain power. If you can't rest at home, your brain is always in a tight state, which is not conducive to learning.
Another important reason is that being active is a child's nature. Sitting in the classroom during the day, there is a lot of extra heat and energy in your body. During this period of play, you can just relax, release the restlessness that you have nowhere to put during the day, and then sit down and study, so that your heart will be calmer, more satisfied and your efficiency will be improved.
2) Cultivate children's sense of time.
Children's procrastination is serious, mainly because they have no concept of time and don't realize the value of time. First of all, it is very important to help children establish a clear concept of time.
You can set a tomato alarm clock for your child and ask him to complete a small task within a specified time. If it is not delayed for a few minutes, the playing time will be reduced by a few minutes accordingly.
The third bad habit: watching TV and playing mobile phone.
In the digital age, information explodes, and everyone cannot do without electronic products. We don't have to regard them as scourges, because children are bound to grow up in such a big environment. However, in childhood, children must be strictly required to use electronic devices and supervision should be in place.
1) active thinking ability decreased
Because electronic products instill a passive way of thinking, their active thinking ability will be greatly reduced if they are used for a long time. The most important thing for children to learn and grow is to need active thinking. Watching TV and playing mobile phone for too long, brain memory declines, thinking is rigid, lacking creativity and initiative, and learning has no motivation.
2) Language development lags behind.
Electronic products are exported unilaterally, so it is impossible to communicate with children. Children's language development will inevitably stagnate, their vocabulary will decrease, and their language center will gradually degenerate.
Children love watching TV and playing mobile phones. The key lies in their parents' inaction.
Think about why children like watching TV and playing mobile phones. Is there such a situation: children let their parents accompany them for a while, but parents often ignore their children and don't want to accompany them, so they can't put down their mobile phones?
No child is naturally attracted to TV and mobile phones. The root cause is parents' inaction, which pushes children to electronic products.
1) Parents set an example.
Modern people cannot live without computers, televisions and mobile phones, but at home, when they are with their children, parents should set an example. First, they should put down their electronic products and devote themselves wholeheartedly to their children. Children are eager for their parents' attention and love. With the love of parents, who wants to play mobile phone?
2) High-quality companionship increases parent-child time.
When you are with children, you should interact with them more, read picture books, play puzzles, spell Lego together, even rehearse plays with them, or take them out for cycling, playing ball, roller skating and swimming, which can not only exercise, but also reduce the dependence on electronic products. Why not?
Children grow up only once. I hope every parent can proudly say that my proudest work in my life is my children. ?