Children Learn By Getting Down And Dirty
The human race has survived because we nurture our children for so many years. The danger lies in our becoming so over-protective that while stunting the natural curiosity of our youngsters, we stop their development on many different levels. There is no hard and fast rule as to what explorations we should allow or prohibit. Every parent struggles with this fine balance using his own set of criteria. Just look at how we treat our newborns.
Our first babies are treated with extreme care because we fear the common household bacteria which he may encounter. We provide him with his personal baby bath and all of the baby washcloths and bath blankets he can use. After stocking up on his special soaps and creams, we try to keep him as germ-free as our ingenuity can arrange. Many parents become hysterical at the sound of people coughing or sneezing within sixty feet of their newborn. They attempt to keep him in a sterile bubble as long as possible. Regular household linens are banned from his life, usually until the toddler stage.
When should you start letting your infant use the common family household linens? Sooner rather than later, to be brief. The minor germs contained in these cloths are exactly what a developing immune system needs. Doctors now urge the use of regular soap around the home and workplace. Why don’t they encourage the use of the popular germ killing soaps? It is because the immune system gets stronger with every germ it encounters. It learns how to fight them
Everyone agrees that the marketplace has provided some essential tools for the care of young children in the last twenty years. It is hard to imagine a nursery without baby safety monitors or baby gates to ensure that parents can keep close tabs on baby’s activities. The availability of an electric breast pump enables today’s working moms to provide baby’s ideal food, at all times. Baby car seats are saving lives daily, as are helmets and other safety equipment.
But parents must know that as the child grows, he has to tackle his environment with a little less regulation in order to learn by his mistakes. There is no use expecting children to learn what their limits are if they never get to make decisions. We must allow them to make mistakes.
No child will be permanently damaged by being temporarily rebuffed by his environment. He will learn to confront the problem. Then he has a chance to discover how to overcome it.
Give your child the tools for the challenges of life by letting him make some decisions of his own about what is a good idea and what is not. This is the best safety training you can provide in the long run.
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