10 things to care for and raise a child without which your mother would have managed

Time does not stand still - our life is changing, and with it the outlook on the upbringing of babies is updated. Now in stores you can find thousands of products that are designed to facilitate the care of the child and ensure its full development. Following the advice of doctors and acquaintances, mothers look for children's gadgets and devices, choose the best finger paints and electronic thermometers. They consider all these devices extremely necessary, although their absence in the past did not prevent women from raising healthy offspring.

If our mothers and grandmothers do not understand why developmental rugs and baby monitors are needed, then modern dads laugh together at their wives and their mania to buy everything in a row at children's stores. “Sanya, did you have a fitball in your childhood?” - after this phrase, the company of men begins to laugh and joke that without such a thing, a child can’t grow up in any way. The only thing that fathers consider truly useful and necessary is diapers. They really made life easier for parents, you can’t argue with that.

In this article, we have prepared for you a selection of the things that are very necessary for modern mothers that their parents did not need and made their husbands laugh.

Walkers

Mom’s dream is to quickly hear her baby begin to speak and take the first steps. To make this happen faster, devices such as walkers are purchased. In them, the mother seats her six-month-old baby. Having fun with toys on the front panel, the little one begins to independently move around the apartment.

Walkers are a modern invention, and our mothers used a simpler scheme instead: a bed - playpen - floor. If the child wanted to see something closer or to reach something, he began to crawl. After some time, the baby independently got up on both legs and began to master walking. These events occurred naturally, without forcing and coercion.

Although walkers are now popular, pediatricians do not recommend their use. Experts explain: to get to his feet and go, the child must strengthen his back, and for this you need to crawl for a while. Mom should not try to speed up this process. Otherwise, it may inadvertently harm the health of the child.

By the way, modern dads often support the idea of ​​using a walker, because putting a three-month-old baby in them is a whole entertainment. Wives often scold their husbands for such childishness.

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Diapers

Now parents do not imagine how they would do without diapers. Breasts often eat and go to the toilet.So they have to change their diapers 20 times a day, or even more often. After all, babies have very delicate and sensitive skin, on which irritations can appear.

How did our mothers cope in those days when diapers were still missing? They had to make diapers from gauze themselves, boil them and constantly change them to prevent diaper rash.

Instead of diapers, women used to use oilcloth pants. They were put on babies at night so that they did not have to get up and change diapers. Such “know-how”, of course, negatively affected the delicate skin of babies.

Diapers are created specifically for sensitive skin of babies. However, they also need to be used correctly. Boys should not be in diapers around the clock - due to constant overheating in the future they may develop infertility (Are diapers harmful for boys?). Still important to accustom the child to the potty from the same age with which our mothers began to do this. Going to the toilet should remain an absolute instinct, and not worked out, as “advanced” parents now believe.

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Baby monitor

Almost all modern mothers have this device. Each mother has a lot to do - washing, cooking, cleaning the house, some still manage to continue to work. Of course, mothers are worried that they may not hear how their babies cry. The baby monitor solves this problem and allows you to constantly stay in touch with the baby.

There were no such devices before. Our mothers could only use walkie-talkies, but they are of little use in everyday life. Therefore, women had to develop hearing acuity and intuition.

Baby monitors seem to be very useful devices, but they also have many opponents. The argument is as follows: a good mother will already hear any grunts of a child, so buying communication devices is a waste of money.

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Electronic thermometer

Using an electronic thermometer is convenient - it allows you to quickly measure the temperature in the mouth, on the forehead, in the ears - anywhere. For babies even released dummy thermometers.

The mercury thermometer used by our mothers, or rather the electronic. If it crashes, people risk suffering from toxic mercury vapors, so you need to be careful with it.

Steamer blender

This household appliance is useful for introducing complementary foods: just put fresh vegetables in the bowl and leave them to cook. Then it remains to turn the bowl over so that the vegetables are ground in mashed potatoes. So the cooking becomes fast and convenient, the blender itself is compact and does not take up much space. She also has a big drawback - a high price. Convenient, fast, compact, expensive.

Previously, women did not have such helpers in the kitchen. They themselves harvested potatoes, squash, squash, and other vegetables collected for the winter for the winter. Then our mothers cooked them and knead a napkin by hand. It's not as fast and simple as using a blender, but no one complained - everyone was happy.

Developing mat

This is a dense rug with different pictures and arcs where toys hang. Here, the child can not only play, but also stimulate his senses. For this the developing mat is painted in different colors, it makes sounds, plays melodies, and it is also made of different materials, which is useful for fine motor skills. The kid can lie on his back or roll over on his tummy - for him there will always be entertainment from all sides.

In the USSR, young families at best lived in one-room apartments. Then there was an acute shortage of housing, so there was no question of developing rugs - they simply had nowhere to attach. At home, everyone had the usual rugs. Parents still turned them away for fun, to demonstrate to their grown children the consequences of not using diapers before.

Finger paint

Colored paper and pencils, plasticine and ordinary paints, felt-tip pens, coloring books - all this is still widely used for children's creativity. 21st century innovation - finger paints. Very young children still do not know how to hold a brush or pencil, it takes time to master such skills. But each peanut can dip his pen into a can of paint, and then paint a sheet of paper or, for example, a wall in the bathroom. This is fun entertainment, creativity, and good training of fine motor skills of fingers.

Educational didactic materials and activities

Such tools for the development of babies as books and didactic materials, including including Montessori method, electronic alphabet, children's musical instruments. Some mothers connect their little ones to the developmental activities when they are barely 9 months old. They believe that by stimulating the intelligence of their child from a very young age, they provide him with a successful future.

Not so long ago, kids were simply given to kindergarten from the age of 3 and were not burdened with developmental activities. A broad outlook was provided to them by family trips to nature, traveling, reading children's encyclopedias. Helping mom with the housework was a kind of labor therapy, which taught responsibility and independence.

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Children's gadgets (laptops, tablets, phones)

Nowadays, more and more kids learn gadgets even earlier than speech. Many parents encourage kids to get to know smartphones and tablets early on, because now is the time to understand technology. The shops even sell a variety of children's gadgets, but the kids easily become addicted and head off into the digital space.

Instead of technological innovations, our mothers suggested that we play board games, read interesting books, draw, listen to audio tales, and give us to sports sections. All this is no less useful and interesting.

Interactive toys

Children now do not suffer from a shortage of toys. To see their delight, many adults choose something speaking or singing. Special laptops for children, which help learn the alphabet, numbers, train memory, are also popular.

Previously, there were no gadgets and other modern means for raising children, but mothers still gave their children everything they needed. They were helped by paper alphabet, ordinary toys and objects. Only in the 21st century did life change dramatically. Many mothers have to work, they can’t sit for 3 years on maternity leave and devote as much time to their children as we would like. Therefore, the things we told you about often become loyal helpers. And dads let them laugh further.

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