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Parents are the most important influencers for children, including the food. Site owned ChooseMyPlate.gov Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion USDA featuring 10 tips for a good example to children, especially in the growing culture of good eating. In the statement, disclosed that many things that parents do to help children understand the importance of diversity of food and nutritional balance. Such as cooking together, eating together, discussing preparing meals, and so on. Here are 10 tips that are recommended are:

1. Be a good example. For example, to explain the importance of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains-be an example with a well liked and eating these foods.
2. Go shopping together is one way to provide experience for the child. Discuss about the origin of these products and nutritional value. Educate them to choose wisely the goods to be purchased.
3. Creative in the kitchen. Encourage your child to participate in the kitchen. For example, by forming foods with funny, and give them the opportunity to name each one.
4. Provide the same meal. Cease to discriminate food. Plan a menu that is suitable for all family members, including children.
5. Give rewards with attention, not food. Show your love with care, like a kiss or a hug. Do not give a reward in the form of candy or other snacks. This can lead to the perception that the food is better than other foods.
6. Caring with each other when eating. Make mealtime as a means of improving communication and release workload. Turn off the television and the telephone when you're eating with the family.
7. Listen to what children say. Every child has aspirations. If they are hungry, offer a healthy snack, though not yet entered a meal. And when will prepare a menu, you should ask what they thought earlier. For example, "a vegetable dinner, ananda prefer broccoli or spinach?".
8. Limit your time watching TV or playing digital games. Invite them during commercial breaks of physical activity.
9. Encourage physical activity, for example by scheduling a joint exercise on a regular basis. Get used to walk to school, if the distance is near.
10. If creating a new recipe, describe taste, texture, and aroma as well. Select the preferred child. Do not force them to eat something that is not preferred. Offer new recipes to eat early, when children feel hungry.

Hypnoparenting techniques, consciously or not, was not new. Your parents may have already put it into practice. Perhaps you remember, first, mother or grandmother gently stroking your hair when you lie down on his lap. Then, they say the words of hope at the same time praying for your child to grow into a healthy, intelligent, virtuous or any other expectation.

Care for and educate children with love, this is the basis of a written hypnoparenting techniques scientifically, but practical and applied by Dr Dewi Yogo Pratomo, MHT, a writer who also works as a teacher, lecturer, speaker, human resources consultant.

Positive words this is what affects growth and development of children, even to overcome the difficulties faced by parents when caring for children. It is the duty and responsibility of parents to give positive suggestions to the child using this hypnoparenting technique.
Tantrums in public places, this child's behavior often makes it difficult to deal with parents. Even when the child wet the bed when he was already no longer a preschool, this also happens because of causes. "Usually the child has specific concerns that make it wet, it is necessary to find why, and something that happened to a child can be overcome with hypnoparenting techniques," explains Dr. Goddess at her book launch in Jakarta, some time ago.

Various problems faced by parents when caring for children can be resolved with hypnoparenting. Children who have trouble sleeping can be overcome by the method of hypnosis is practiced his parents. The mechanism by giving a signal in the subconscious, said Dr. Goddard.

"For children, the key words, affectionate and smart. Hypnosis to tame 'dinosaur brain' that exists in everyone. What do you say to a child that is prayer. Say positive suggestion repeatedly, because hypnosis is repetition. Easy to implement methods of hypnosis anyone and for all layers, "he explained.

HypnoParenting book written by Dr Dewi even explain in great detail this method of parenting. You will be helped to make the script a positive suggestion and how to practice them to children. To understand the methods of hypnosis, this book also includes an audio CD so that parents can learn techniques hypnoparenting more leverage.

Regarding when the right time to give positive suggestions to the child, Dr Dewi explained, "Perdengarkan CD while reading the script that is in the book, when the child half-asleep. Before bedtime, when the eyes of a child starting weight, did not answer when asked, this is the most appropriate moment to insert a positive suggestion. "

What kind of positive suggestion for children? Of course this is dependent needs and problems to be solved parents. Dr Dewi pointed out, if the child's main problem is difficult to get up early, then give a positive suggestion, saying to him before bedtime, that he could wake up tomorrow morning to get ready for school.

"Perform 11-12 repetitions of positive suggestion consecutive times, 10 minutes before bedtime, twice a day and closed with a hug," advises Dr. Dewi added for children with autism let them heard audio CD for an hour once a session.

This technique can be done by anyone, including parents who tend to be quiet or difficult expressions reveal to his children. "The child is the product of his parents. Quiet child who is a product of parents who are quiet. The boy was skilful imitator. It is time parents introspection while practicing the method of hypnosis to overcome various problems of parenting, "he explained.

Positive suggestions given to children may differ between parents with each other, said Dr. Goddard. You are free to give any suggestion. "Hypnosis is like a speech, opening and closingnya same, namely, breathing deeply. The suggestions can be dismantled pairs according to the needs of parents and children, "he explained.

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For educators and scholars, Komaruddin Hidayat, parents already practicing ancient techniques hypnoparenting. "Once, when my grandmother Koran, he stroked my forehead saying I'll hoe with a pen, and so on. What did the grandmother, after I read the theory, is the method of hypnosis. Parents in the village have done it and it's effective, "he said during a book talk sessions at the same event.

Suggestion can also be done when the child was whining at the mall for example. "Squatting, equate you and your child's eye level, use a sound stomach, face eyes, take a deep breath, and speak to him a positive suggestion, and end with a hug. Children will know the real parents are giving it affection, "said Dr. Goddard.

Positive suggestion is a form of parent-child communication. No matter how small children must get used to communicating. "Do not educate children to be manipulative. If the child whines and parents responded by giving what was asked, this will become a habit for him, "he said.

Benefits of Play for Children - The kids would love to play. They enjoy play time so that they often forget to eat, forget to learn are not even willing to do other activities if they’re playing. Parents often have to pull higher tension in advance to stop playing and do the homework or learning. This often causes the parents assume that their children are lazy to learn and just want to play. In this article will discuss why playing is considered important by some development experts and to the extent where the play is beneficial for the development of children.

According to Papalia, an expert on human development in his book Human Development, child develops a way to play. The world is the world's children play. With the play of children using body muscles, stimulate the senses of his body, exploring the surrounding world, discover what kind of environment that he lived in and discover what kind themselves. By playing, children discover and learn things or new skills and learn when to use such skills, as well as satisfy what is the need. Through play, children will be trained physical, cognitive ability and the ability to interact with others will flourish.

Playing is of course different things to learn and work. According to Hughes (1999), an expert in child development, said there should be 5 (five) elements in an activity called play. The five elements are

• The purpose of playing is the game itself and the perpetrators get satisfaction by doing so (without target), not for example get the money.
• Selected freely. Selected game itself, carried out on their own will and no one ordered or forced.
• Fun and enjoyment.
• There imagination element in its activities.
• Conducted actively and consciously.

Outside the opinion of Hughes, there are experts who define play as any activity that is felt by her children fun and enjoyable (pleasurable and enjoyable). Playing to use the tools (toys) or not. Just running around in the room, if the activity is felt by the child's fun, then the activity can already called a play that too.

Benefits of Play

Based on above it is important to provide a sufficient time for children to play, parents may think the things mentioned above can be found children with learning (study). There should be pointed to the play time as learning time, learn during playing. In fact, the smart child can learn himself, but some if just left to play without guidance they should not easy to learn. These opinions have a point, especially if intelligence is only related to academic skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic. But in everyday life, intelligence is not just reading, writing and arithmetic, as well as academic ability is not the only thing that is important and needed. There are other things that are important and necessary, such as the ability to communicate, understand the perspective of others and negotiate with people. These things can not be obtained only by learning. Feeling happy, enjoying, free to choose and free from all charges because they do not have a target, also cannot be obtained from the learning activities.

When playing, children spend their imagination and ideas that are stored within him. Children express knowledge that he possesses about the world and then also at the same time can gain new knowledge, and all done by encouraging him. Not only knowledge of the world have in mind is expressed through the child's play, but also things that he feels, fears and joy. Parents will be able to getting to know children by watching their children while playing. Even the passing game (especially hide and seek or ole-playing) parents can also find the impressions and expectations of children against their parents and family. Playing pretend to describe his understanding of the world where it is located.

Creativity of children is also growing through the game, because original ideas that came out of the minds of children, although sometimes feels abstract for parents. Not only parents will get stressed, children are too. Stress in children can be caused by the burden of school lessons and daily bored routines. Play can help children to escape from the stress of everyday life.

What Should Parents Do? Does child need to play? Of course the obvious answer is that children need to play. Perhaps the parents are worried that too many children to play and did not want to learn. Back to the initial illustration, which need to be ascertained is whether children still have time to play, after an intensive learning activities. If it is true that children have time to play, then goes on to not want to learn, then the problem is how we motivate children to learn.

Some things should be done by parents to guide children in play so it was really useful for these children, are as follows:

• Make sure the kids busy schedule every day, there are still enough free time for children to play.
• Every now and then come into play with the children, understand themselves, joys, fears and needs. Who knows after that is no longer a parent that is too ambitious.
• Supports creativity game of children, as far as what is done to children in the game is not a brazen act, no harm, and not endangers themselves and others.
• Guiding and supervising the children in play, but not over-protective. Children may not know if what he did in the game is doing is wrong; therefore they need to be guided. But do not be over-protective to inhibit freedom. For example, if children play running and has been dropped is fair, so no need to forbid children to play running for fear of children falling. But if a child when playing a bicycle race, of course, need to be banned because of dangerous.

Even if the world is the world playing of children, but children need parental role to be in a world that is safe and comfortable. With a play, not only the children feel excited and happy when it did; but with proper guidance from parents, potential child can also develop, children can become smart by means of game. Children love and parents happy.

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The Indigo Child - Most of us know that a small portion of children born as indigo. But, is it true that there are indigo and since when this phenomenon began in mind?
These children are called indigo children because they are considered to have indigo colored aura. The term indigo children come from a book by Nancy Ann Tappe in 1982, the Understanding Your Life Through Color. Another book, The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, written by Carroll and Tober pad, which was published in 1998 mentions, estimated at 60% of people aged 14 to 25 and 97% of children under 10 are "indigo."
In addition to indigo, they are many other terms for these children with more capabilities, such as Star Kids (because they are claiming to be from another world), Crystalline Children (because some people say they are highly developed), and so forth. None of these claims may survive because of this phenomenon was not studied in an objective research through scientific observation.
According to the College of Metaphysical Studies, many of them are known by a variety such as Indigo Children, Children of the Blue Ray, Rainbow Children, Star Children, Millennium Children, the Crystalline Children. Whatever the name, of whom we hear amazing stories and even surprising.
However, Bryn Mawr College revealed that one very well known characteristics of indigo children, that have hypersensitivity. According to New Age beliefs, these children have a very high level of empathy, and are naturally drawn to matters concerning mysteries, spirituality, paranormal, and occult.
These children are considered to represent a higher state of human evolution, some believe that they have paranormal abilities such. While that distinguish indigo child with others in terms of conventional is that increased empathy and creativity high.
Critics of the indigo phenomenon is quite simple. Critics, such as psychologist Russell Barkley, said that the New Age movement that said motion the emergence of indigo in large quantities has not produced empirical evidence of the presence of indigo children. The characteristics that they use to describe them were only seen vague and unclear.
Another criticism is that these children are in tune with the paranormal. Perhaps, they get this result of watching television with an emphasis on magic, magic, and divination. They may be responding to what they see on television.
Educational programs for children indigo has been described by the College of Metaphysical Studies, begins with a stop labeling indigo in certain children. Many people have tried to provide labels on children as indigo children and proud of it. In fact, labeling will make them enter into the box that can limit creativity and ability to achieve the greatest potential.

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No parent would want to send his child to an indecorous and uncomfortable school. Generally, schools are addressed not like any other venues or places in a community. Most of the time, such institutions have good architecture and good facilities to earn respect and trust of parents, who always want a good and conducive environment for their children. In this regard, school buildings and their quality play important roles in bolstering up perception of people about education. This could be verified from the psychological concept of association. Most of the time, parents want to draw appropriateness from identifiable and physical features.This is because parents mostly believe that beautiful and homey places help children cope up better so they could open up and learn lessons.  Thus, you should not be surprised if many of them judge schools with the most beautiful campuses as among the best, without further looking into overall quality of education.

Such perception is exactly alive not just in third-world countries but also in the more developed ones. In the US, it has been a common knowledge that school infrastructures are among the major investments of educational institutions. Schools strive harder to beautify and improve its surroundings and buildings before accepting students. In fact, many schools across the US are designed by famous architects. One would always be in awe upon seeing and appreciating the splendid built and architecture of some of the famous campuses in this side of the planet. In struggling countries, schools are more likely to be judged by their aesthetic appearance. That is why many parents and children complain about lack and low quality of education, without really assessing the quality of teaching and mode of instructions. This is due to the almost universal thinking that education is guided and influenced by the surroundings. To most people, education could not be facilitated in a place that is less conducive for students and teachers.

That view gave notice true. That is because how could students focus on studies if they are disordered by inferiority of their classrooms? How could teachers have the drive to teach if they smell foul odors in the room? In the view of real educators, education should go beyond such facets. Students who are most willing and motivated to learn would open their minds to learning no matter how bad their surroundings are. The best driven teachers would always strive to teach no matter how distracted and unmotivated they are. Are you aware that in most countries, government budgets on education are spent building school structures and facilities than in paying teachers and investing in good learning materials? That is the reason why many global governments complain about the currently higher costs of education. Are they to blame when most people generally agree with that notion?

You should have your own memorable of your school lives. I am sure that you are argue that education shouldn’t have been complete if not for your beautiful and conducive school building. While such is an important, people should not forget that the content, quality, and overall effectiveness of curriculum and teaching modes are far more important. School buildings really facilitate education, but it would always be the drive and motivation within students and teachers that would make a difference.