Preschool Age Health

照顾孩子的健康涉及此处提供的有关身体和情感发展和养育的所有信息。

Here we have focused on some specific areas of physical development that require special attention including hearing, vision, teeth, and brain, as well as active living tips.

• regular check-ups with your doctor or public health nurse can ensure your child’s hearing and vision are developing properly.
• 通过培养，运动，探索和游戏来鼓励孩子的大脑健康发展
• brush your preschooler’s teeth daily and schedule dental appointments
• 确保孩子有定期锻炼大肌肉的机会，例如跑步，攀爬，跳跃和游泳
• 确保您的孩子因严重疾病而迅速接受医疗护理

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Active Living

一个好方法你可以保持你的学龄前儿童的健康y is to encourage and model active living. By making regular physical activity a part of your day together, you are ensuring your child will continue this healthy habit for the rest of her life.

• preschoolers need regular opportunities to exercise their large muscles
  • 给您的孩子跑步，爬，跳舞和游泳的时间和空间
• 一些学龄前儿童会对足球或T球等团队运动感兴趣，有些人可能会发现自己喜欢的舞蹈课，而另一些人可能只想在公园里度过一个下午
  • follow your child’s cues when organizing physical activities

Brain

您的学龄前儿童的大脑仍在发展，并将继续迅速发展，直到他进入学校。您可以通过培养动作，大量的娱乐和探索以及尽可能多地向他朗读来影响他大脑的健康发展。

大脑发育原理

the outside world shapes the brain’s wiring the outside world is experienced through the senses - seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting - enabling the brain to create or modify connections

（来源：加拿大儿童健康研究所）

• 大脑以“使用或丢失”原则运行
• relationships with other people early in life are the major source of development of the emotional and social parts of the brain

Hearing

听力对于孩子的言语发展和学习非常重要。早期识别听力困难非常重要。如果您怀疑您的孩子可能会出现问题，请参阅您的医生或公共卫生护士。

Protect your child’s hearing

定期拜访您的医生或公共卫生护士，观察您的孩子在各种氛围中说话和回应声音的能力

Encourage speech development

talk and listen to your toddler singing and listening to music helps your child improve and refine their hearing read to your child as often as possible

• seek prompt medical care for any ear infections or problems or childhood illnesses
• 让您的孩子远离噪音过多

Teeth

• baby teeth should be brushed by and adult twice every day with a pea-sized amount of fluoride toothpaste
• 您孩子的第一批牙齿帮助他们开始咀嚼固体食物，在学习说话中发挥作用并帮助下巴开发
• 零食对学龄前儿童很重要，但要避免蛀牙限制甜或粘性食物，并将其保存在进餐时间
  • 提供水而不是果汁和其他甜饮料之间的餐点
• your preschooler should have regular checkups with a dentist

想象

Your preschooler should now be developing depth perception and improving hand-eye co-ordination.

帮助您的孩子发展健康的视力

• reading to your child helps her develop the visual skills she will need to begin reading on their own
• activities like painting, sorting shapes and assembling pieces like blocks or puzzles help develop healthy vision be selective about how much TV your preschooler watches
  • prolonged viewing or viewing TV too closely can cause eye strain
• 五分之一的学龄前儿童患有视力障碍 - 确保在孩子开始上学之前安排全面检查