Volume 4 Issue 3 Page 2 of 2
Summer 2004
Safety tips continued
- Hats and sunglasses. Don't forget about hats, which can protect the ears and back of the neck from sunburn, and sunglasses, which help to protect the eyes.
Other Summer Tips
- Sleep is important. Just because there's no school doesn't mean your child needs less sleep. Keeping some semblance of a schedule is important, more so for certain children than others. Know your child and what works best.
Yummy Summer Recipe Idea
Nutritious Fruity Popsicles
You will need:
1 cup mashed banana; 1 package (10 oz.) frozen sliced strawberries, partially thawed; Paper cups; 1 can (13.5 oz.) crushed pineapple; 2/3 cup evaporated milk; Popsicle sticks or plastic spoons
What to do:
1. Let the child mix the bananas and strawberries
together in a bowl.
2. Add the pineapple.
3. Add milk slowly, mixing until blended with fruit.
4. Let the child
help you spoon the mixture into paper
cups.
5. Freeze until partially
frozen.
6. Insert a Popsicle stick or plastic spoon into the
center
of each cup.
7. Continue freezing until solid.
8. Peel off paper and serve.
Common Kid Concerns Continued
Worry About Breakages
Fear of injury to themselves spreads, in many children, to a shivery horror of injury to anything else. Your child may be disproportionately upset if he breaks a mug. If he comes across a headless doll, he may react as you would react to a dead rat. A few children cannot even enjoy jigsaw puzzles because they so dislike the incomplete and "broken" pictures. Again, patience and understanding are the key. Gently explain to the child that the object cannot feel anything and it is not the end of the world that something is broken. A good way to help alleviate the fear of breakage would be to let the child help fix something, so he can feel more in control of the world around him .
This excerpt was taken from Your Baby & Child by Penelope Leach. More Common Kid Concerns will be in the next newsletter.
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