By crying, a baby expresses her or his desires, pains, discomforts, so that the parents can pay attention to her or him and satisfy the baby´s needs. The baby must learn, however, that he or she cannot achieve everything he or she wants, and especially not that way. Sometimes it happens that a small child, two years old for example, after getting used to going alone to bed, no longer wants to continue the previous habit of falling asleep alone after an illness in which we have seen the need, as well as the desire, to pamper the child…
When a baby cries, it’s natural that we pay attention, because the baby is expressing a need that we must satisfy. However, the baby must learn, progressively, how to tolerate frustration. One of the things that a toddler must leave behind, however painful it may be, is the pacifier, which so often calmed the baby’s hunger and anxiety. As mentioned, the baby seeks to satisfy needs by crying; however, progressively the baby needs to learn, through practical acts because he or she is not ready for explanations, the following: Not everything can be attained There are other ways to…
Regarding the convenience, or not, of extending the period of time in which the baby sleeps with parents, there are different opinions that should be considered. I will make the following comments on them, in order that the reader may make her or his decision. Some authors (Knobel, 2013) focus their position on the right of parents to have a space for themselves, and state that the baby must get used to being alone and learn to tolerate frustration; so the baby should sleep in her or his room once the quarantine is over, or when the parents have sex…
I have a two-year-old girl I am worried sick due to her lack of appetite. When I take her to the pediatrician I end up even more nervous, because he tells me that child malnutrition is dangerous and that I must help her develop good eating habits. However, I must not force her to eat, because it would increase her lack of appetite. He concludes by saying that I should not be nervous, of course! (Saying it is just so easy!) Although, it is extremely difficult for me not forcing her to eat when I have been told of…
Being pregnant and anxiously expecting the birth of her baby, Ana asked herself: – Will I breast or bottle feed him? Until what age? Will I have enough milk? Will I breast feed him every time he wants, or will I follow a schedule? Will I be able to manage my part time job with feeding him? Will my breasts get hurt, like it happened to a girl friend? Or will they sag?… Ana: you’ll ask yourself what will happen to you with what feeding your baby is concerned; and what consequences it will bring. We will try to address…
I can’t make my two year old son understand that I can’t buy him all the toys and sweets he wants, and that he cannot take all the toys from other children while visiting their homes. He always has frightful tantrums, which make me very embarrassed. I would like to know how to calm and correct his tantrums by doing it my own way. Sometimes I explain that those toys don’t belong to him, and that I will buy him one at the end of the month or on his birthday. Other times I try to distract him by…