Are you a good mother? The most scientific parenting concept test

Many mothers have their own methods of educating their babies, but many people do not know whether their methods are the most scientific and correct. Today, I will introduce to you in detail the scientific parenting test below. Mothers, hurry up and take the test.

Are You a Good Mother Test

1. You take your baby to a pottery studio to play with mud, but he becomes addicted and refuses to go home with you. What will you do?

A. 7 points for taking someone away by force

B. Then continue playing. Add 1 point

C. Take the baby home first, then buy some plasticine for the baby to play with, plus 5 points

D. Can't play anymore, use the ice cream as a return home exchange plus 3 points

2. For your baby’s birthday, you gave him a remote-controlled car from Toy Story, but he seemed more interested in whether the car had a driver and wanted to dismantle it. What would you do?

A. Of course not, this is a paid extra 7 points

B. Tell your baby that damaging things is wrong and that there is no need to open them, plus 3 points

C. Let him be, plus 1 point

D. It is OK to dismantle it, but it must be able to be put back together, plus 5 points

3. If your baby is about to start using the Internet, and as a parent you have chosen the Disney Video Channel as his first stop on the Internet, where he can watch many classic Disney cartoons, how would you guide his online life?

A. The content of this website is good, let him read it himself, add 1 point

B. Watch with your baby and communicate while watching, plus 5 points

C. Give watching animation as a reward. If the baby performs well, he can watch videos online and get 3 points.

D. Let the baby watch the video by himself, but tell you the story in the video (7 points)

Test Results

21 points - 17 points Leader mother

You are strong-willed in the workplace, and you will not allow your baby to behave disobediently when you get home. You will arrange everything for your child in the way you think is best. If your child does something that is not to your liking, you will suppress it immediately.

Maybe you think you have given your child the best, but your way of education completely limits the development of your child's personality. Now it seems that you should get along with your child on an equal footing, so why not start by watching cartoons together?

16 points - 10 points Friend's mother

Rather than saying that you and your baby are mother and child, it is more appropriate to say that you are friends. You have been trying to establish an equal relationship with your baby, just like good friends. You believe that children have the ability to think independently and guide them to use this ability. You require your baby to be responsible for his own behavior, and tell him about social order and due responsibilities. Please stick to your way of education. I believe you must like watching cartoons with your baby.

9 points - 5 points Materialistic mother

Delicious ice cream, novel toys, interesting cartoons, the things your child likes are your powerful weapons to control your child. If he doesn't obey, don't even think about getting them. This method is a bit like a trainer training animals. When you see the good lions in the circus, you know that this method is very effective. But children are not lions. Using this method can easily cause sequelae, and the relationship between mother and child can only be maintained by material things. Be cautious! It is better to delete cartoons from the reward list.

This is good, but that is not good. A good mother who accepts her baby unconditionally no matter what he wants to do is definitely not a good mother. You are indulging your child and have begun to develop in the direction of spoiling him. You must know that childhood is a critical period for understanding the world and cultivating character. Your way of education can easily make your child spoiled. You must pay attention to guidance and let your child realize that the composition and order of society are the most important.

Children's intellectual development

1. Children's brain development requires appropriate stimulation; children learn best through touching the world and playing games; children need attention and should be encouraged.

2. A good learning environment for children, safe and clean is the most important; toys should not be too small, or they will get stuck in the throat; they should be clean and round with few sharp points, and it is best if they are larger than a wine bottle cap; hygienic and clean to prevent diseases, and healthy children will bring happiness to the whole family!

3. It is not necessary to have expensive toys to promote the development of children's brains. It is not recommended to give children supplements and nutritional products, such as beverages, instant noodles, jelly, malted milk, etc. If children do not eat these things, it will not affect their growth and development.

Common parenting misconceptions

Must the first complementary food be rice flour?

When talking about the first complementary food for children, it seems that all mothers on earth can blurt out - rice noodles! Then vegetables and fruits, and finally meat, right?

In fact, there is no medical evidence that there is any advantage to introducing solid foods in a specific order. In other words, there is no need to follow a certain order in which solid foods should be introduced, just make sure that the first foods added are high in iron.

If the child is not allergic to the added meat, you can add the meat first, especially red meat such as beef and lamb which are rich in iron, which is very effective in iron supplementation.

Of course, some mothers will ask, can't I add commercially available baby rice cereal first? Of course you can. After all, the probability of allergies to rice cereal is relatively low. As for whether to mix it with breast milk, milk powder, or water, the answer is yes! Just remember: rice cereal is for babies and has iron added, so forget about making it at home.

Should I eat more egg yolks to supplement iron?

I just mentioned that iron-rich foods are the first choice for complementary foods. Maybe some girls will be curious: why is there no egg yolk in the first choice of complementary foods?

Yeah, that's right!

The idea that egg yolk is the first choice for baby food is mentioned in the old version of pediatric textbooks. But in fact, neither the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2007)" nor foreign guidelines recommend egg yolk as the first choice for baby food.

The iron contained in egg yolk is iron phosphate. One egg yolk contains about 0.4 mg of iron. The iron absorption rate is 3%, which is much lower than that of meat. Therefore, egg yolk is not a good product for iron supplementation.

If you don’t like plain water, you can use 100% additive-free fruit juice?

Many babies don't like to drink water, so adults give them juice. They think that juice is sour and sweet, easy to drink, and can quench thirst while supplementing vitamin C, killing two birds with one stone! But is it really like this?

Not long ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new guidelines on children's juice consumption. It clearly states that unless there is a medical reason, it is not necessary or recommended to give juice to babies under 1 year old. In the previous version of the guidelines, the recommended age was still 6 months old.

You may ask, what about the juice you squeeze yourself? Unfortunately, even 100% freshly squeezed juice has no nutritional benefits for babies under one year old.

So, instead of giving your child juice, it's better to feed him fruit directly. Fruit contains fiber that juice lacks and rarely leads to excessive calorie intake.

Of course, the best drink is always plain water!

Is it enough to give children calcium supplement by sunbathing?

Many people say that sunbathing can supplement calcium, but this is not actually the case. The relationship is a bit complicated, so let me help you sort it out.

First: Few children need additional calcium supplements.

Secondly: sunbathing only promotes calcium absorption and cannot directly supplement calcium.

Third: In order to better absorb calcium, the body must have enough VD.

Finally: Where does VD in the human body come from? One is to get it directly from food or supplements, and the other is to get it from the sun.

When the weather is fine, taking your child out to sunbathe properly can indeed convert more VD, but in winter, when children wear too many thick clothes, ultraviolet rays cannot convert VD through the skin; in summer, considering the risk of sunburn, you can imagine how long you need to sunbathe. Besides, there are very few foods that contain VD, so if you want to supplement VD, just give your child VD supplements, and don't stop after the age of two!

Is physical cooling the first choice for fever?

If your child has a fever, don't rush to take medicine. Take a bath, apply a fever-reducing patch, and take medicine if physical cooling doesn't work. Do you think so too? In fact, many authoritative professional organizations have pointed out that physical cooling should not be the first choice for reducing fever. Let's see what they say:

A warm bath will not help your baby reduce fever, but it can help if your baby cannot take oral medications or vomits or becomes irritable after taking medications. --Hong Kong Department of Health

Warm sponge baths are not recommended for the treatment of fever. - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines

Warm water baths, alcohol baths or sponge baths are not recommended for children. - Canadian Association of Paediatricians

Although the effect of combining acetaminophen with warm water bathing in a short period of time is better, it will significantly increase the discomfort of the child. It is not recommended to use warm water bathing to reduce fever, and ice water or ethanol bathing is even less recommended. ——Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute fever of unknown cause in children aged 0 to 5 years in China

To sum up, if the fever is above 39°C or the child feels uncomfortable, we should give the child antipyretics first; if the temperature is below 39°C and the child does not feel uncomfortable, antipyretics are usually not needed, and naturally there is no need for a bath, ice packs, antipyretic patches, etc.

Why not? Because reducing fever is not the primary purpose, but making the child comfortable is the most important. Wearing less clothes, turning on the air conditioner, taking ibuprofen and acetaminophen are all ways to improve the child's comfort and can be used.

Taking warm baths, applying fever-reducing patches, rubbing alcohol on the body, etc., all have limited fever-reducing effects and may cause discomfort to children and even cause poisoning risks like alcohol, so they are not recommended.

In fact, the most important thing in parenting methods is that parents and children grow together and work together to figure out the most suitable parenting method for their baby. This is the only way to get the best tonic for the baby.

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