How to be if the child is for more than a year, and you still have not hardened it? You can start hardening at any age.
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The child should not be afraid!
You can start hardening at any age. For this, it is suitable, for example, a contrast shower. First you put the baby or, better, become with him yourself under warm water, well warmed up. If a child requires hot water - let it be hot. Initially, heals the child's feet, palm and back. First of all - the collar zone of the back. Then you say baby: «Well, let's go under the rain». Pour the feet, palm and very fast - the collar zone with cold water and - again under the hot shower. Then again short-term cold pouring.
And so at least three times. Always start the procedure from warming, and end with cold pouring. If you have time, make up to seven contrasting temperature shift. After the procedure before dressing, do not wipe the child, but snatch for a few minutes.
This procedure excites, so it is better to do it in the morning or after school, hours at 6-7 pm, but not immediately before bedtime. Try to be nice to the child. Do not frighten it, do not insist if the child is afraid not to turn it all into the stressful situation. In this case, contrasting poultry is better to carry out in the form of the game.
The proposed procedure can be used in kindergarten. Three or four pelvis with hot water and as much with cold. And children run from some basins to others. The principle of contrast temperatures must be withstanding here: first hot, then cold water.
Third EDUCATION OPTION. Child bathes in the bath in the evening. Let him sit in the bath so much time he wants, you can with toys. Let it warm in warm water. Children usually love to relax and lie down in the bath. Or let him warm under the shower as much as he wants. And then tell him: «Come on you will arrange a cold rain or run by puddles».
And here such playing situations are possible: or you open cold water, and it substitutes the heels and palms (for the first time, and in the following days try to hide cold water and the back), or if the child is afraid of exposure to the cold shower, then you can first put Tazik with cold water and say: «Well, come on with you on the puddles run!» And from the warm bath - in the cold pelvis (or «under rain»), and then - again in the bath. Add more warm water if the water in the bath cooled. And - again in the cold. And so at least three times.
After the last cold impact, also bite the child into the sheet and in the blanket, hold it, without wiping, and wet water, then put it in night clothes and put in bed. For better hardening effect, the procedure must be gradually changed by increasing the time of cold influences. Subsequently, the child itself begins to demand more cold velves, and it is often refused to give up hot water altogether.
Contrast procedures should not be interrupted during illness!
So, it is better to start with contrasting procedures. They should not be interrupted even during the baby's illness, as they contribute to the speedy recovery. I know one wonderful mom. She started hardening the baby from birth. He rarely sick. Once she called me and asked what to do with the child: he had a small temperature, a runny nose. She wanted to make contrast druising, and he refuses them and requires only cold. So the load for him was already insufficient. Children begin to feel and show the initiative themselves.
In this case, my mother and I decided to do as the child asks. The boy recovered quite quickly and subsequently with the diseases himself was poured cold water.
I believe that for successful hardening should not stop on some contrasts. For some children you can offer the following option: Before the awakening of the child in a bath, cold water is poured in advance. As soon as the child wakes up, he is from bed, warm, plunges into the bath, then burst into a sheet, immediately dresses and proceeds to other hygienic procedures. In contrasting procedures, blood flow in the nasopharynk area is significantly improved. Therefore, in the expanding of adenoids and chronic tonsillitis, contrasting procedures are shown.
If the child is accustomed to pouring the feet with cold water, then in winter it is possible to strengthen the hardening effect by running by barefoot in the snow. It is necessary to run only in those places where the snow is clean, while under the snow there should be an earth, but not concrete and not an asphalt path. Naturally, do not stand in the snow on the balcony. How best to carry out this procedure? The child should be apparent so that the shoes are easy to remove and put on. Better to wear, for example, sports suit, woolen socks and boots.
So you go out to the street. First run a little - the child will warm up. If your baby is diverting, you can be sure that his legs are not cold. Then you can remove the boots and get up on the snow, first literally for seconds. Then quickly wipe the legs from snow by some cloth and watch starting from that foot that first put on the snow. And again run in the boots. The duration of standing in the snow, first very short, then it can increase.
Why does the child cease to hurt after such procedures? The following happens: stop vessels under the influence of cold are narrowed and necessarily the vessels of the nasopharynk region. If a person is not hardened - an acute respiratory disease occurs (the virus is introduced into the nasopharynk region cells). And the hardened person - on the contrary, in response to the cold, it is at the beginning of a narrowing, and then a sharp expansion of small vessels of stop and, reflex, - the vessels of the upper respiratory tract.
I am sure that this procedure will deliver you a great pleasure. Especially if you fulfill her whole family. Not necessarily make it every day. You can twice a week, but with pleasure, with joy. Do not be surprised that after a while, looking at falling snow, you will feel a great desire to go out and stand up on the snow. Especially if you have trouble or bad well-being.
