Please note that all commentaries on this website, unless where specified, are mainly the expressed opinion of the writer, who is not an expert in the field, only sharing my experiences.
Having raised four Children of my own, I will say that I know a thing or two about taking care of Children. In the near future we will be bringing in experts in the field, like Child psychologists to write on these issues.
It is usually my understanding that childcare comes naturally to human, as a lot of these are human instincts. When you are blessed with a child, your common instinct is to care, protect and nurture the child.
At what point do we realise that there is a need to give the child all that he/she demands, as such may end up destroying the child?
I am very much aware that there has got to be a book somewhere about how to care for our children, which could have come in handy during my early parenting years.
We only learnt from our parents and those who have been parents before us on how to ensure we do not ruin the future of the ones we love.
I came to understand the following, that a child, like an adult, need and should be taught the following:
a. How to feed yourself with right nutritious meal, hence, from baby stages feed your child well.
b. Keep your baby clean, as a clean baby is a happy baby. Nappy rash, or any type of rash makes for an uncomfortable cranky child.
c. We all need decent amount of sleep in a day/night, as a lot happens in our body when we sleep. We grow, get healed and our body tissues are repaired when the body is at rest.
The child needs a very decent amount of sleep to be able to function rightly, therefore while the child is progressing in months and years, there is a need to have bedtime for the child, and ensure that these times are kept daily. When my Children were babies we set their bedtime at 7.00pm. As they got older, to about 10 years old it became 8.00pm, when they progressed to teenage age it was 9.00pm. Setting the bedtimes and keeping them also meant that you have a little bit of your "me time", away from child.
