What are some methods of child wellness?

First of all, these are physical exercises. You can do various exercises anywhere: at home, on a walk, on a playground. When walking, you step over stones, puddles or a fallen tree together. On a playground or sports ground, the baby can walk on a log, climb up and down a ladder, etc.

When the child turns two, you can do morning exercises with him. If you do the exercises together with the baby, the exercises will acquire a special charm for him. For small children, morning exercises are a means of toning all organs and systems. It helps the child to endure the daily load well. Morning exercises can include the following exercises:

• walking around the room for 1 minute;
• pull-ups with torso bends - 3-4 times;
• squats - 3-4 times;
• bending the body to the left and right - 2-3 times;
• running around the room - 12-15 seconds;
• calm walking for one minute. It is necessary to monitor the child's posture. Two-year-old

A child with correct posture holds his head straight, his shoulders are level and slightly turned out, his chest is slightly protruding forward, his stomach is pulled in, his legs are straight at the knee joints. To form correct posture in children, you need to do exercises on a bench, a slide, with a ball, a hoop, a stick, a rope.

Children of this age benefit greatly from exercising on a home sports complex. These exercises are incredibly exciting, develop agility, intelligence, and strengthen muscles.

Conditions for physical education classes: a well-ventilated room, quiet, rhythmic music, no objects or sounds that distract the child's attention. In warm weather, physical education classes are best done outdoors. Clothing should be chosen so that the child can move easily without overheating.

Riding a small tricycle with pedals on the front wheel will be very useful for a two-year-old (or even a one-and-a-half-year-old) child. During this, leg muscles are strengthened, the cardiovascular and respiratory systems are trained, endurance and coordination of movements are developed.

Sledding is very useful in winter. The child needs to be taught to go down small gentle hills. Children really like it. So much so that if you, tired, say: "That's it! Enough!", the child starts to drag the sled himself. This exercise also develops endurance, strengthens the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and also forms such a character trait as courage.

In winter, you need to watch your child closely during active games. If you notice that your baby is sweating, take him home immediately and change him into dry clothes. Otherwise, a sweaty, hot child will start moving less and may get chilled. And this is fraught with a cold. Therefore, when going outside in winter, predict what you will do and where you will walk. Knowing this, you can dress your child accordingly.

The next method of health improvement is hardening. Hardening with air is carried out during morning and therapeutic exercises, when the child does it without outerwear or in only panties. You can use the following method: ventilate one of the rooms so that the temperature in it is 17-18 °C. The child runs into it and returns to the warm room, and so on several times. It is useful for the child to play at home in only tights and a shirt. Allow him to run around the apartment barefoot. In the summer (at the dacha or at the sea), let your child not put on shoes or almost not use shoes. Walking on the grass or on the ground is an excellent means of hardening and a very effective way to prevent flat feet.

A very good method of hardening is water procedures. Here is what the famous doctor V. N. Zhuk wrote about the advantages of baptism in cold water: "Both a weak and a strong child, baptized in winter in water straight from a well, develops very quickly and almost immediately takes on a special, pleasant, cheerful, strong appearance... A quick immersion in cold water definitely intensifies all metabolic processes. The skin turns red and is pleasant to look at: the child looks fuller, rosier, rounder, sucks harder and greedily, falls asleep quickly, does not cry after baptism, lies quietly and watches. After four to six weeks, a weak child is unrecognizable."

Some consider regular bathing to be water procedures. But this is only a tiny fraction of those hardening water procedures that the authors recommend to us as "cautious" hardening of children. There are serious disadvantages to such hardening. Firstly, the temperature differences in this case are significantly less than those that a child encounters in everyday life. And if only for this reason, they cannot provide a hardening effect. Even when a child is changed, the temperature difference is 10-12 °C, while the manuals recommend reducing the water temperature during hardening by 0.5-1 °C over 3-6 days.

Secondly, the hardening effect of this system is short-term and incomparable with the duration of the effect of comfortable conditions on the body. As B. P. Nikitin writes: "5-6 minutes are allocated for hardening, and the remaining 1434 minutes every day for pampering."

According to Yu. N. Chusov, the author of a number of books on hardening, for a good effect it is not enough to just systematically and gradually carry out hardening procedures - such effects must be sufficiently intense and long-lasting.

At the beginning of the second year of life, hand baths can be added to the usual water procedures. Babies usually willingly play in and with water. The child can be offered to launch boats in a basin or bathe a doll. The initial water temperature (28 °C) is gradually reduced to 20 °C. After the procedure, the child's hands should be wiped dry.

From the age of one and a half, you can start dousing your feet or giving them foot baths. These procedures are carried out after a daytime or nighttime nap. The initial temperature in the summer is 30-33 °C, in the winter - 33-36 °C. By reducing it by 2-3 °C per day, after 4-5 days it is brought to 20-22 °C. The duration of the bath is from 1 to 3 minutes. At the same age, the child can take a shower. But this is a very stimulating procedure, and it should not be carried out on children with an unstable nervous system. It is better for such children to continue wet rubbing or dousing. The water temperature in the shower and when dousing should initially be 35 °C in the summer and 36 °C in the winter. Gradually, it is reduced to 25 °C and 28 °C, respectively. If your baby tolerates a shower well, you can use a more complex change in temperature. For example, after putting the child under a warm shower, lower the water temperature to room temperature for 3-5 seconds, and then raise it again. Gradually increase the temperature difference, and bring their change to 4-5 times.

A child can swim in a pond from the age of two. This is the most powerful hardening agent. The baby is simultaneously exposed to a large mass of water, sun and air. Bathing begins with short immersions, then its duration is increased to 2-3 minutes. It is recommended that a child of two or three years old bathe no more than once a day at an air temperature of 25-26 °C and a water temperature of 25 °C.

When a child first encounters a large body of water, he may be afraid. In this case, do not force him to go into the water. It is better to try to overcome his fear during play. Run with him on the wet sand, play "tag" with the waves, collect pebbles and shells brought by the waves. During this time, the baby will calm down and get used to the abundance of water. Gradually, he will begin to go into the water. First up to the ankle, then deeper.

As with other hardening procedures, at the first signs of hypothermia, stop bathing and dry the child with a terry towel and dress him.