The neurologist explained how to cope with the whims of the child and what will help cure the nervous tic

Can watching TV as a young child replace live communication with parents and how to teach the baby to solid food, on the air of the talk show “PRO HEALTH” on the YouTube channel “SEE AND LIVE” told the doctor, child neurologist of the 18th city children’s clinic of Minsk Anna Gorskaya. It's from sb.by.

Is television harmful to a child? Parents should not assume that by turning on the TV and sitting in front of the child, he will learn to talk. It is not a substitute for human speech. Getting used to, the child will often perceive cartoons, gadgets as background noise, without receiving any information from this pastime. To start speech, there should not be a large number of cartoons, computer games, because then the brain will concentrate more on these stimuli and ignore the quieter measured speech of mom, dad, grandmother. But the lullaby is one of the oldest ways to calm a child, which arose even before the appearance of speech in a global sense. Therefore, a lullaby is undoubtedly a very good help to parents in trying to put the child to bed. Sometimes kids have nightmares. This is as inevitable as the crisis of three years, this is the stage of formation of the child’s psyche up to three, three and a half years. There is no need to fear these conditions. The child during the day receives a huge amount of information, impressions, new knowledge. And at night, the child's brain processes all this, decides what it needs to leave for further use, and what can be forgotten, what can be used further, and what will not bring any benefit. Accordingly, the child may begin to have frightening dreams, may wake up at night with screams or tears, or vice versa wake up in order to require continued play and activities during the night sleep. If so, the most important thing is not to turn on bright upper light and provide the child with such conditions that he falls asleep in the shortest possible time, calm him down, stroke him.

Screenshot of video What to do if your child refuses to eat hard food? So-called blender children are a big problem. And it is not that the child is physically ill, but that the mother did not have time to offer the baby a piece of food, more rigid, hard. This issue can be solved only by the correct introduction of complementary foods. This is given a lot of time at their reception by pediatricians. But from the point of view of a neurologist, the most important thing is that there were no bulbar, pseudobulbaric disorders, that is, that the child was physically able to swallow water, something softer, and chewing is something that can be trained, offering the baby any tasks in a playful form, the studio guest explained. Which is better: a calm or hyperactive child? If we talk about the extremes, it will not be normal if the child is involuntarily sitting on a chair, putting his hands on his knees. And it will not be normal if a child is constantly hanging on a chandelier, smashing another TV or in another way destroys the apartment. There should be a balance: the child should be able to spend time in a calm state, occupy himself, and actively study this world. The period of active absorption of information falls on a period of up to five years. During this time period, the child should be active, the neurologist noted. At this time, the first whims may appear. In some cases, this can be a simple pedagogical neglect. The baby feels very good about his mother and learns to manipulate, to profit personally from his own behavior. And if he managed to throw himself on the floor of the store once and get his mother to buy him what he wants, then the child is more likely to continue this trend, because it is easy for him to shout the extra 2-3 minutes to get what he needs. The most important thing during a child's tantrum is not to leave the child alone with his trouble. You can't leave him alone in the room. The mother should stay calm and stay close, waiting for the baby to be in touch to listen to the mother’s arguments and come to some compromise. It is impossible to leave the child alone in any case, because the mother is the center of the universe, but you can talk about the momentary fulfillment of the desire later. For example, agree that first you need to eat porridge, and then candy. You have to be consistent in your promises. If, taking the child from the playground, the mother promised him to return home and inflate many, many soap bubbles, you must necessarily fulfill this promise and only then proceed to previously planned actions, such as brushing your teeth and going to bed. Do not confuse a child, he is already quite difficult to understand how to use this world. How does a mother’s voice increase affect her child? Mom's scream is a disaster, it's the howling of a siren in a child's head. At this point, he feels nothing but fear. In response, she can only give a tantrum and hardly ever remember why her mother screamed. He will remember only the fact that the person closest to him somehow fell for him. Accordingly, in the upbringing of a child, you should avoid shouting, corporal punishment, simply because the child will not be able to further relate why he received a blow, why he was in the corner. It is better to form a causal relationship in the baby. If the toy is broken, it is thrown away. If you hurt anyone, you have to apologize. Is enuresis a reason to consult a neurologist? If a child has such a problem as urinary incontinence, this is a reason to visit a pediatric neurologist. At the reception, he will determine the further routing of the child by diagnostic tests or other narrow specialists. In particular, it can be both the need to visit a pediatric urologist with a general urine test, and a visit to a child psychologist or psychotherapist. In any case, you can not scold the baby, because this consolidates fear and can only aggravate the situation, the doctor said. Another problem that occurs in children is nervous tics. They belong to neuroses, as well as episodes of urinary incontinence, stuttering, picking nails, twitching hair and so on. This is a manifestation of stress in the everyday life of the child. If these are preschoolers, then most often the problem lies in family and household or kindergarten problems. Once you figure out what causes tics, they'll disappear. You also need to help the child in his psychological state. At what age can epilepsy manifest itself? Epilepsy can occur at any age. Very often, neurologists can not find the reason why this person develops seizures. These can be hereditary or metabolic disorders, a consequence of traumatic brain injury or early organic damage to the central nervous system. There are many reasons, added Anna Gorskaya.

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