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Infant Parenting

Infants are little explorers who are curious about their environment and constantly travel on all their fours to learn and experience what the world has to offer them. Being parents our concern for our little angel is quite evident, we build a protective fence around them to guard them against any injury or danger, but we often don’t realize that we might be hindering their learning abilities by doting over them. It is essential to keep a watch on them and always be at an arms length to protect them, however, providing them some freedom to explore on their own, would build a strong and trusting relationship between you and your child.

Embarking on a new journey of parenthood is fascinating, yet full of challenges. And, despite the helpful parenting tips or books, we often find ourselves perplexed and inadequate of handling our little bundles of energy. This article aims at providing an in-depth knowledge of how parents can nurture their infants efficiently, without confronting too many road-blocks.

Mother’s are the best teacher, as befittingly put; you can be your infant’s teacher. Introduce new surroundings, sounds, and expressions to your infant as soon as they are few days old. Each day, introduce a new room and communicate about the surroundings to your cub. What a delight it brings, when they react to you with their gurgles, or smiles and sometimes use their under developed speech skills. Repeating this process will efficiently nurture their brain development and they would actively participate in new and complex tasks with ease and confidence.

Talking, reading and singing to your infant from the initial months of their life, will help them build well-developed language skills. They can become gregarious and better adapted to their social environment as they grasp the ability to communicate efficiently, because you encouraged them.

Scientists have learned that alert, active infants have better capacity to learn, express and share when their mothers’ are in an emotionally happy state. Therefore, it’s imperative for mothers to avoid any emotionally distressing stage, be it postpartum blues, or wrongful habits of eating or drinking. Brief periods of difficulty will occur, and it will not harm your child, rather negative emotions can provide an emotional learning to your infant. However, you must rewind quickly to a normal emotional state, before it gets into a nasty spell.

Imbibing good values in your children is essential for their successful lives. Avoid or quit habits like smoking or drinking that would injure the “absolute” health of your infant. Eating healthy diet which includes vegetables and fruits, fish, lean meat, nuts, raisins, low-fat cheese, yogurt, low-fat milk, cereals and grains will not only benefit your family’s health, but soon you discover a new you- a much more energetic, happy and youthful looking woman.

Never reprimand your infant, as their brain is inadequate to understand the cause-effect relationship. Remove her from situations where she can be injured. And, explain to her in a strict tone not to repeat her action, continue this behaviors whenever required, but never hit or shake your infant, this may cause severe brain and nerve damage.

“While we try to teach our children all about life. Our children teach us what life is all about.”

Angela Schwindt (American unicycle team coach)

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