The child’s brain evolves depending on the opportunities we offer it to do so according to its environment executive functioning skills. How can we promote the development of children’s skills based on their age?
Today we propose some activities for children from 0 to 6 years old that you can include in your children’s daily routine. The benefits that will result from this practice will enrich the intra-family relationship.
The importance of learning to relax
Something essential for the proper development of a child’s skills is that he or she be able to relax. To do this, we must also maintain an attitude of calm and patience and avoid, when possible, rushing in the activities we do with them.
Children learn by our example, and what we do is more meaningful to them than what we say. Therefore, if our behavior with them is calm, they will act in the same way and this will allow them to relax.
Doing things slowly, without overwhelming one activity with another, with a certain habit, without too many orders at the same time or without excess stimuli (visual, auditory, tactile), will favor your relaxation.
But why is it good for the baby to learn to relax? These are some of its benefits:
- Improves body attitude and respiratory activity.
- It enhances the listening capacity of your own body and also the internal one.
- Eliminates tension and reduces the number of diseases .
- Facilitates tranquility and reflection.
- Improves imagination and concentration.
- Promotes balance between both hemispheres .
- Develops the ability to assimilate learning (the brain needs to prepare to achieve stability and concentration).
It is true that we cannot always maintain that calm and patient attitude, since the day has many hectic and hurried moments, but to the extent that we do it when we are with our children, we will help them to have moments of relaxation .
The importance of massage
Massage can help us achieve that relaxation , perhaps after a bath or before going to sleep. We can find a time when the child feels comfortable and we feel that he wants us to massage him. We should never force him, as we will achieve the opposite effect to that sought.
It is good to be able to listen to their response to perceive the right moment for it. If you create a habit, he will be the one who ends up asking you for it when he grows up.
What benefits can we obtain from this practice?
- Promotes relaxation .
- Strengthens respiratory and gastrointestinal functions .
- Stimulates the immune system and the development of the nervous system.
- Improves emotional communication between the child and the parents or person providing the massage.
- Enables knowledge of the body scheme .
- It promotes connections between the nervous system and the endocrine system, which helps the physical and psychological maturity of the baby.
- It makes it easier to understand the baby’s needs through his or her body.
- Stimulates the senses , touch, hearing, sight and smell, for the establishment of secure bonds with their parents.
- It covers basic needs such as warmth, attachment, containment, love and release of tension.