Sports activities and hardening make enormous improving impact on all organism of the child, laying the reliable basis for immunity. At the correct development of the child at younger preschool age the adaptation system of an organism will become steadier. Main requirements to physical training:
1. The volume of physical exercises for the child is determined by the doctor depending on group of health and age. All classes are controlled by the children's nurse.
2. Classes are given daily.
3. Exercises are carried out on the street or in the warm aired room.
4. The set of exercises periodically changes, exercises gradually become complicated.
5. It is forbidden to be engaged at once before going to bed and after breakfast. Morning exercises, massage, active games on the street and classes in sports circles are compound links of physical development of children.
Massage is carried out only by the massage therapist with medical education on a special table. The table is dimmed a blanket or a diaper. Each type of massage does to children in certain age.
Since three months with the child it is necessary to do gymnastics which includes easy stroking and grinding of extremities. Since four months the passive movements gradually replace with more active, razminany and easy percussion. The child becomes more senior, the more active elements include classes. Active outdoor games best of all will be suitable for kids of the second year of life.
After four years, sports are widely used. It is necessary to finish sports activities with quiet, rhythmical walking.
One of the most important methods of strengthening of a children's organism is hardening. All methods of hardening can be divided on: the general and special. The general are used during all life of the child all the time and begin with the birth. Carry to them:
- Air bathtubs - a dream and walks in parks or squares (not near the carriageway).
- Rubdowns - pound open parts of the body a damp towel of room temperature. Apply only to kids from 7 months. • The general douche - is begun only since two years. Pour over the child in the warm room from a jug or a shower.
- Bathing in an open reservoir (river, the lake) - can be begun since three years, duration from two to ten minutes. Temperature of a reservoir is not lower than 22 degrees.
- Solar bathtubs - carry out with extra care! The child after a year it is possible to temper only from 9 to 11 in the morning under supervision of the adult, and it is the best of all under supervision of the nurse.
Special methods of hardening are contraindicated to children of younger age. It is very important to teach to do the child since early years sports and to watch over the health. Then the child will grow up the healthy full-fledged person!