✔ By Now, Let's Read These Questions Step by Step...
- What first aid measures can you take for emergencies ?
- For nonemergencies, what can you do to make your child comfortable ?
- How can you prevent similar infections or injuries in the future ?
- How can you speed recovery ?
- What are the nuts and bolts of home care ?
- How can you improve your child’s behavior ?
➙ Introduction :
↪ Dear Parents, Stepparents, Grandparents, and Other Caregivers, After 40 years of working with families, this is what I know: You want your child to have a better start in life than you did. You’re ready to sacrifice for your child. You want to fill your child’s heart with love.
● You want to teach your child to be self-disciplined, self-reliant, and responsible for his or her actions. You want to teach your child to be thoughtful, kind, honest, generous, and respectful toward you and others.
● You want your child to know that every life is precious and that the highest moral value is helping the less fortunate among us. If this be so, you are an active member of the universal family of those who care for our children.
➙ The best part ?
➥ Your desire to be better informed about child rearing and childhood illnesses is universal. These guidelines are meant to supplement the health education provided by your child’s physician.
● Most parents also receive ongoing health advice from friends, relatives, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, radio, and television. Unfortunately, information from the media or nonprofessionals may be confusing, conflicting, or downright alarming.
➥ One of the main purposes of this, is to help bridge the information gap with accurate, up-to-date, and straightforward health facts and advice. The guidelines for when to call your child’s physician have been tested by thousands of physicians and nurses across the country.
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➥ One sound rule of child rearing is: Don’t do anything for your child that he can do for him self (such as feeding or dressing). The same advice can easily be applied to parents with regard to health care decision-making.
● You are an important member of your child’s health care team and you can do more on your own than you think. You have innate common sense and you know your child better than anyone else. Observe your child’s symptoms. Use this, as your reference and make informed decisions.
➥ As your ability to differentiate (triage) between serious and nonserious illnesses and injuries increases, so will your confidence. The common illnesses and behavior of childhood will come into perspective as something you can competently manage.
● You will become a smart consumer of health care services, and in the process you’ll teach your child that their body is a powerful structure that can defeat most infections and heal most injuries on its own. Don’t underestimate your abilities. Best wishes for enjoyable and successful parenting during these exciting years.
↓ Picture of things that babies use ↓
