Tips for the Safety of Kids

What we should do?
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1. Always keep the baby neat and clean.
2. Cut the nails properly with utmost care. 
3. Wet nappy should be removed and parts should be cleaned with soap. 
4. Take care of the genitals because fungal infection is common in that area. Parts should be kept dry. 
5. Care of the scalp is very important.Fungal infections, dermatitis ect can be prevented by proper cleaning. 
6. Tight dress can cause irritation, hence dress should be loose and should allow entry of air. 
7. Room should have sufficient light and ventilation.It should be free from dust and insects. 
8. Seperate bed preferably water proof is needed for kids .It should be arranged near mother's bed. 
9. Always keep some music making toys near the baby. 
10. While carrying the baby support the head with hand.Since the neck muscles are weak sudden fall of head can be dangerous.
11. Mothers milk is the best nutrition for the baby,it also gives emotional attachment.Breast milk should be given as per the babies need preferably in mother sitting position.Proper cleaning of nipple is also necessary.Mother should take good nutritious diet throughout lactating period. 
12. If there is some contraindication for breast feeding cows milk can be given.Feeding bottle should be cleaned with warm water and should be kept dry till next use. 

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How to teach a child to walk ?

Exercise is essentially important to the health of the infant. Its first exercise, of course, will be in the nurse's arms. After a month or two, when it begins to sleep less during the day, it will delight to roll and kick about on the sofa: it will thus use its limbs freely; and this, with carrying out into the open air, is all the exercise it requires at this period. By and by, however, the child will make its first attempts to walk. Now it is important that none of the many plans which have been devised to teach a child to walk, should be adopted the go-cart, leading-strings, etc.; their tendency is mischievous; and flatness of the chest, confined lungs, distorted spine, and deformed legs, are so many evils which often originate in such practices. This is explained by the fact of the bones in infancy being comparatively soft and pliable, and if prematurely subjected by these contrivances to carry the weight of the body, they yield just like an elastic stick bending under a weight, and as a natural consequence become curved and distorted.
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