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Share with Your Children

Posted by admin March 22, 2010

Today many emerging skin care product such as perfume and cosmetic which can using by the mother and child, these products safe for your child.

1. Where are Allowed to the Small?
Beauty care products is divided into 3, namely cosmetics (eg shampoos or make-up), drugs (cocktail or by prescription), and cosmeceutical, namely a combination of cosmetics and medicines. Cosmeceutical, in addition to cleaning and caring for the skin, also serves to beautify the skin and appearance. Examples are bleach cream or cream to remove wrinkles on the face.
When choosing a safe product for children and toddlers, select the entry in the category of cosmetics. For children aged over 2 years, all kinds of cosmetics are relatively safe to use, because it does not change the function of the skin.

2. Avoid Alcohol
Choosing products for baby need to be more careful. Once the baby is born, her skin structure is already equal to adults. But, its function is immature and imperfect, and just the same as adult skin after the baby turns 2 years old. Baby’s skin when ages 0 – 2 years tend to be thinner.

Function skin variety that is for protection against pressure, absorption, transpiration, temperature control and as a means of touch. In infants because his skin is thinner, the greater absorption the function, especially on the fold areas, such as folds of elbows, knees, armpits, and the eyes and lips. Noteworthy is not put products containing alcohol (methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol) to parts of these folds. Alcohol is drying so easily cause irritation.

3. Fragrance and preservatives
Observe whether your child has special conditions, such as dry skin or eczema since birth milk (usually arising in the cheek area with a reddish color). These symptoms can appear already when the baby was 2 months. Although only arise in the face, it indicates the overall dry skin and sensitive.
You should not put products containing fragrance materials and preservatives into your baby’s skin. But, this does not mean that all fragrance materials and preservatives should be avoided, because the sensitivity of each child vary, (Consult with your doctor).

4. Be Careful with sunscreen
You should not share your sunscreen with your child. Because the content of sunscreen for adults tend to contain lots of moisturizer, because adult skin more easily when it is dry in the sun. While sunscreen formulated for little more watery, because the child’s skin is naturally and oily.
Some sunscreens for adults also contain PABA which is sensitizer that can trigger skin irritation in some sensitive. So, to more easily, if the packaging of a product is not written if the product can be applied to the age of the children, it is better to avoid its use.

5. Effective Product for Children Mother
In this case, no term is too light dose resulting in less efficacious for adults. Because, to achieve the desired results, required a certain standard. It is important to realize that the benefits of these products, whether in accordance with the required capital. So, in principle, the care provided for children and infants is safe and certainly can be applied also to the mother.


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When Your Child Asking about Sex

Posted by admin December 21, 2009

Development of information technology make our children very easy to get information about everything including sex. Not infrequently, they will receive information freely causes curiosity. How should parents be?

Discussing sex with children is very strange indeed, but it is better for children if the source of this information obtained from parents. In this way children can understand what sexual relations and how to get him to act on it with a reasonable proportion.

Many studies conclude, how to talk about sex of children in the form of open discussion and honest. This means that parents have had to create safety for children to talk about something, too, since they were children. Thus, when the discussion starts, the children do not feel middle interrogation from their parents. Prophylaxis guidelines following collected from several studies are:

1. It is time to start discussing sex with children is when they enter primary school age. This age is sufficient for the age of the children will understand the message of surrender. Whenever the child wants, as strange as any questions, try to react normally. Thus, the child will not feel afraid to find answers from their parents.

2. If you feel uncomfortable to start a discussion, an adult movie or song, which was captured their attention as a mediator. Suggest whether this is feelings of love, healthy friends with the opposite sex, and most importantly, how to make decisions for themselves.

3. Make your library and religious leaders as sources of additional information to the child. This will help your child get an idea, how should the opposite sex relationships, family relationships and friendships formed. In this way the child can understand that any relationship that exists has a sense of responsibility, respect for others.

4. Limit your child interaction site that provide information about sex too. This means that parents must still watch that any information obtained from the child according to his needs.

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