Chinese parents should be the most "competent" parents in the world, and they usually flaunt "Buddhist" free-range parenting, but when they see that other people's children are a few centimeters taller and have more grades, they begin to secretly think: Is my child missing something?
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Many parents always put "poor children can not be poor" on the lips, no matter how frugal they are, as long as it is useful to their children, they will pick the best and most expensive. So, deep-sea fish oil protein powder, lactoferrin probiotics... I'd love to buy them all home.
If paying the IQ tax is a psychological comfort, it will lose some money at most, but many times it is not only a large IQ tax that is given away, but also the life of the child.
Previously, a mother spent thousands of dollars to participate in the "sleep training" course, which led to the baby's unfortunate suffocation and death during the sleep training.
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Many times the merchants have seized the anxiety and urgency of parents and laid heavy "traps", taking the mother and baby shops that mothers often go to, there are lightning points everywhere.
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Food for children, empty of its name
Many parents want their children to grow tall and eat well, so a variety of children's special foods came into being.
Children's soy sauce, children's milk, children's cheese... As long as the word "child" is added, as if it comes with a harmless and additive-free filter, mothers feel safe and secure, and the price is rising with the water.
For example, our common children's soy sauce often claims "low salt and low sodium", "organic", "high nutritional value", but careful observation of the nutrition composition list, you will find that low salt light mouth does not exist, and its composition ratio is almost no different from ordinary soy sauce.
Nutritional composition list of a child's soy sauce, sodium content 459/10mg/taobao screenshot
List of nutrients of ordinary soy sauce, sodium content 479.3/10mg/taobao screenshot
According to national standards, for every 100g or 100ml of food, the sodium content is less than or equal to 120mg to be called low sodium food. The role of soy sauce is to flavor, and simply relying on a few drops a day to supplement nutrition is simply nonsense.
The dietary nutrition guidelines for Chinese residents point out that babies under 1 year old do not need to add additional condiments such as soy sauce and salt. Excessive intake of sodium in the baby is not only easy to develop heavy taste eating habits, increase the burden on the kidneys, but also increase the incidence of cardiovascular and other diseases.
There are also children's milk, children's cheese and other foods in the supermarket, which look nutritious and delicious, but the ingredient list is not carefully studied, such as children's breakfast milk, which tastes sweet, but it belongs to "seasoned milk", protein, milk content is not as high as pure milk.
These so-called children's foods, in order to cater to the tastes of children, often add additional salt, sugar or other additives.
The mainland does not have a special "children's food" standard for people over 2 years old, and it is still necessary to look at the ingredient list and nutrition composition list on the packaging, and choose the real material in the front, less salt and less sugar, rather than being fooled by the word "children".
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Trace element detection, there is really no need to check
Children eating hands is zinc deficiency, babies who can't walk when they are more than one year old are calcium deficiencies... The pseudo-science of relatives and friends around them opens their mouths, coupled with the trace element detection of the mother and baby store, through an instrument, using a clip to clip the child's finger or wear a wrist, in less than 1 minute, you can obtain the results of more than 30 kinds of trace element detection.
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The result is that the child is either deficient in calcium, iron, or zinc. When the parents are still overwhelmed, the shopping guide here has prepared the solution, just waiting for the parents to buy a bunch of large bags.
At present, there is no unified and authoritative standard for trace element detection in the world, and there is still a controversy that there is a big deviation and unscientificity in hospitals and physical examination institutions through blood and hair testing, not to mention the trick of mother and baby stores.
Last year, the National Health Commission issued a notice clearly stipulating that trace element testing should not be used as a census item such as physical examination, and implemented stricter supervision on the basis of 2013.
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In fact, two weeks after the birth of the child, supplementing the appropriate amount of vitamin D can be, trace elements can meet daily needs through food supplements, and a balanced diet is the best nutrition.
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Child sick = low immunity? These products are really unreliable
What parents are most afraid of is that their children are sick, as long as they have a cold, diarrhea... It will be associated with the child's immunity is too low.
Over the years, products under the banner of "improving immunity" have been continuously updated and upgraded, from probiotics and protein powders at the beginning to bovine colostrum, lactoferrin... For every new product, a wave of IQ taxes is charged.
For example, the probiotics that are essential for families, diarrhea, constipation, indigestion, flatulence... Parents will think of it first, probiotics seem to be a cure for all diseases, some parents also follow their children to eat, and even mistakenly think that by letting children drink yogurt can supplement probiotics.
In fact, under normal circumstances, there is no need for additional probiotic supplementation, just follow the doctor's instructions in special cases.
Another example is bovine colostrum, which claims to have immunoglobulins, which can enhance immunity, but has not been studied to prove that it is beneficial to the human body, but there is a risk of allergies and increasing the burden on the kidneys.
There are also common milk powder containing lactoferrin in mother and baby stores, selling 2 times the price of ordinary milk powder, but it is actually a whey protein solid drink, not to mention that there is no authoritative institution that can prove that lactoferrin can affect the baby's own immunity.
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Instead of hoping for health care products, it is better to let children develop good habits of eating well, sleeping well, and exercising more.
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Training in the name of "independent growth" is pseudoscience
Many of the "parenting courses" and "development of intelligence" training on the market often lack scientific theoretical support. For example, cry immunization training, the original American pediatrician advocated that children can cry for a while before calming their emotions.
At the training institution, it evolved into allowing children to cry in order to cultivate independence. Ignoring this will not only cause a shadow on the child's psychology, but also easily cause the child to have accidents such as suffocation and death.
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I heard that swimming can promote the development of the baby's brain, so the baby just out of the full moon, some mothers began to do swimming cards for the baby, Xiao kangjun has heard the most outrageous statement is that the water waves simulate the amniotic fluid-like environment, so it can promote the baby's intellectual development.
But there aren't many authoritative studies to support this claim, but it's not uncommon for babies to die of suffocation by swimming under parental supervision.
In foreign countries, children under 1 year old are not recommended to participate in swimming training, infants and young children learn to swim, and parents support their children throughout the parent-child tour. After all, swimming is just a sport, purely from the perspective of fitness, swimming and long-distance running, brisk walking these sports are not much different.
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Every parent hopes to do their best to provide the best for their children, but there is no need to be too anxious on the way to raising a baby, rather than rushing to buy and buy for their children, it is better to make up lessons for themselves first and maintain rational judgment.
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