Every year around the world thousands of children in need of medical care as a result of injuries due to children's furniture. Approximately every fifth injury in children aged up to one year in one way or another connected to such furniture. When selecting furniture for the children's parents should pay attention not to the color and style, but above all - for security. In addition, we must remember that even though the children's furniture meets all safety requirements, the child still needs constant supervision.

Cribs

The most common injuries associated with cribs, are the consequence of a fall, or that of the child's body stuck between the slats making up the wall. Sometimes, children's clothing, clinging sticking out of the bed bolts and other items, leading to asphyxiation.

Cribs must meet the following requirements:

• The distance between the strips should be from 50 mm to 95 mm. If the walls of the crib made of flexible material, the maximum distance between the strips should be at least 95 mm.
• The distance from the bottom of the mattress to the upper baffle infant bed should not be less than 600 mm.
• The gaps between the mattress and the crib each party should not be more than 20 mm.
• In addition to the gaps between reyami in the crib should not have holes in which a child could poke a finger.

Safety regulations:

• Put the bed as far away from heaters, sockets, windows (the latter is necessary in order that the child could not reach the curtains and / or blinds on the laces).
• Never put a baby to bed electric blankets or heating pads. In a pinch, you can use them to warm the bed before the child goes to bed.
• Do not hang over the bed baby picture or a mirror, as always there is a possibility that they may fall.
• Do not leave it near a crib chargers, belts and other items, which can lead to suffocation.
• Children under the age of two years should not sleep on the U-shaped pillow; As a rule, experts recommend them to sleep without any pillows.
• Do not make the child in the crib big toys and toys with small parts.
• The crib should be at least the most necessary things - a blanket, a mattress and a child's favorite toy. No need to hang on the wall of the bed clothes, blankets, and so on.

Highchairs

Every year hundreds of children falling from the high chair Highchairs: gatherings And injured of varying severity. To select the most secure chair, you must first make sure that it is stable, and the child will not be able to swing it. At the chair should be a simple design, without unnecessary details (so it will be easier to clean). High chairs are suitable for children who can already sit alone - as a rule, they learn that to 6-8 months. Usually parents are chairs, until the child is 2-3 years.

When a child is sitting on a high chair, it should always be supervised by their parents. Place the chair at least a meter away from the kitchen furniture and any other items for which the child can grasp and, as a result, fall. Even if the child is already good enough and walks confidently climbs on the furniture, do not let him get on a high chair without your help.

Changing table

Since the height of the changing table is greater than one meter, a drop from it can lead to quite serious injury in a child. When buying a table, choose a model with partitions of at least 10 cm and streamlined edges.

Prepare in advance everything you need to perepelenat child.

While a baby is on the changing table, it can not be left alone for a minute. If the telephone rings or someone knocks on the door or ignore it, or go to answer the phone or open the door with the child.

Keep in mind that many parents successfully do without changing table - instead they use their own wide bed, sofa, and so on. Statistics childhood traumas shows that it is often safer than using a changing table - though less convenient for parents.

How to choose furniture for the children's room

The basic rule to remember when choosing furniture for the child - in a child's room should not be anything extra. This is especially important if you have a child of preschool age or younger who need a lot of room to move.

Children usually like the bright, pure colors. It is best to ask the child what color he would like to see you in your room, and choose the furniture, taking into account their wishes.

Children's furniture should not be too high, so that the child could get everything he needs, without the help of parents. Of course, not everyone can afford to change furniture every two or three years, when the child will grow. Those whose budget is quite limited, it may be advisable to buy a few pieces of furniture of different heights. For example, a bookcase or clothing, to the upper shelves which can reach only a teenager, low bookcase and a low, light nightstand or table, which the child will be able, if necessary, to move, to get things that are too high. It is important that the cabinet has been stable, and it was smooth and sufficiently large surface.

The furniture in the room, the student should be comfortable and functional. Be sure to buy your child a desk - that he may be small, but it has to be his own workplace. Take care, and that was the furniture in the room, where friends can sit the child - not necessarily buy a sofa, you can instead purchase a few bean bag chair or floor pillows.

Your wonderful, so sweet and docile baby suddenly at the age of two to three years, completely changes its character. He yells, throws toys, stomping feet and falls to the floor. But most importantly - it is absolutely all proposals and requests corresponds to the word "no." For many parents, it becomes an ordeal.

Why a crisis two years of age

This is because the child begins to feel like a separate person in the environment and trying to identify what he can do, and what not. He smashes the cup (on purpose), or runs away from his mother in the street to see what happens as the surrounding react to his behavior.

Such actions can then permanently form the character of the child. Everything will depend on how others will react to these actions. If the child understands what he freely can, for example, spilling his soup all over the kitchen (my mother in the first act that it did not respond), then in the future it will be impossible to convince this.

Signs of crisis and two years of age

The crisis age of two runs under the flag of "I myself", "I have a great" and "No, to me or offered." The child becomes totally unmanageable, he always screams, scandals, refuses to eat (even when hungry), refuses to get dressed for a walk (even though he knows that the street wondering where his friends are waiting). With the slightest neglect its interests on the part of adults, he begins to scream, stomp their feet, crying and even fall to the floor.

If time does not stop the process, then it goes into hysteria when a child does not see or hear anything around. Especially hard it carries persuasion, this hysteria is becoming more protracted. But if you do not pay attention to the child quickly calms down. But he needs to see that you are busy and you are just not up to it.

At this age, the child is trying to do everything yourself, but as it turns out not always, it is often with the "covers" hysterical. And there is already a lot depends on the tact and calm adult. You can distract the child, instructing him to some important assignments or just give it to yourself - all individually and depends on the nature of the child.

Answering "no" to any proposal adult, the child tries to defend their autonomy and independence. This is the age when a person begins to realize that he is separate, not connected with their parents. To establish itself in this opinion, he repeats the word "no."

How to overcome the crisis of two years

This time, heavy, for parents and for the child. The ideal would be to try to understand the child and not to hinder its development.

What about the tantrums?

The best prevention of hysteria is a clear definition of the boundaries of what is permitted. Prohibitions should not be too much, but they must be scrupulously observed. A child like this certainty: the border create a sense of security.

But if even once he will be allowed something ill before all the hysteria immediately resume: with their help, the child will "knock out" of their poor parents everything that he needs. But he will suffer himself, because beyond the limits extended to uncertainty, and therefore, the world is not so safe.

What you need to do at the moment of hysteria?   For each child can be affected in different ways. For example, if the hysteria has not gone away - draw something interesting (it is desirable that this was a task that increases his self-esteem from the category of "I myself") or just go to another room and do some business, not paying child no attention.

Tantrum - it is always a public act, it requires the viewer without the viewer instantly wither and decay. Therefore, if you do not pay attention to the child, he quickly calmed down and then will something more interesting.

What about the word "No"?

Slowly and patiently guide the child in a certain frame, trying not to break his identity. After all, if it is now to break the desire for independence, he can for the rest of the life of this independence is not exercised, and that's bad.

Therefore, an adult should show the wonders of skill, peace and goodwill, without breaking the already established framework of what is permitted. But sometimes you have to accept the child's reluctance to do something - it will give its actions and deeds certain degree of independence, self-esteem.

Beyond what is permitted can not go under any circumstances when it comes to life and health of the child, for example, can only cross the street with her mother by the hand, can not be ironed strangers on the street dogs and cats running around the pools of water.

For most parents, the baby - is the most important value in life. But for his own good, he should not be allowed to become a domestic tyrant.

Galina Romanenko