Chess is one of the most famous strategy games on our planet, it has an old history. Many people find it extremely interesting. Our son finds it interesting too. Here is his experience. It’s never too early for a child to learn how to play chess. Our son first learned how to move chess pieces at the age of 5. When it became less interesting to play chess only with dad at home, I advised my son to visit a chess club. At that time he was the smallest pupil there.
All kids love holidays. Especially pupils look forward to school holidays. It’s a great opportunity to have a nice time with their loved ones and play all day long. Of course, it’s up to our kids to decide what games to pay and who to play with during the holidays, but we’re responsible for other aspects of this time. It’s our contribution to the development of the child. In our power and interest to determine what is better for our kids and ourselves.
New Year is a time of miracles and wish fulfillment. It’s a greatest celebration which marks the beginning of a new year calendar. In the Georgian calendar New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year, which is greatly celebrated on 31 December in Russia. We really enjoy this party! We begin to prepare for this holiday a few weeks in advance. This is story about how we prepared for this magical time.
All raw cakes usually include nuts. This cake contains no nuts and consists only of three ingredients: bananas, dates and kiwi. The cake is sweet, tasty and healthy. The cake is very quick to make and it is nutritious. Due to the combination of dates and bananas, it has a slightly chocolate taste. You can add carob to the cream, then the cake will turn out with a clearly chocolate note. You can buy carob here.
Don’t raise your children, raise yourself. This English proverb keeps deep wisdom. Kids unconsciously copy our manners, habits and even hobbies. Approval about hobbies are my observations. I will definitely explain my opinion at the end of the article. Possessing deep wisdom Sadhguru teaches to raise yourself before you raise your kids. As you know, he is a yogi, mystic, bestselling author and poet.
Kids are so curious. Children can do everything at once and believe they can do anything. They tend to live in a fantasy world with the brilliance and freshness and immediacy of childhood. It’s important to help them maintain childlike spontaneity and their confidence. Please, try to accept all their activities, no matter how odd they seem to you.
There exists a lot of theories how to rise kids, how to communicate with them. Many resources offer to read a lot of information on this topic. A large amount of books advice us how to be a good parent and what to do in a different situation. Definitely, a lifetime won’t be enough to read these books. We probably shouldn’t be reading them all. You may have one or more handbooks that can give you the information you need about parenting. This will be the information that is closest to you. But for the rest you must trust your heart, not books. Your soul should know better what is good for your child. It comes from the subconscious.
It’s great when you enjoy eating fresh vegetables and fruit. The fact that some people don’t perceive fruit and vegetables as a hearty meal. It’s sad to watch moms on the beach treating children with chips instead of an apple or an orange. This year my son went to a private school. We couldn’t find any vegan school at Sochi, only two vegetarian schools. The fact that, we didn’t choose them because of some moments in an educational process. In the first month Egor confused to eat any fruit there. The reason was that all classmates ate only candies and snacks.
Our first year of being on a healthy plant-based nutrition was a great examination for us. It was a time when our tastes were unstable and there were so many temptations around. But we overcame these moments. Of course, from time to time our son asks for something tasty. He haven’t ever tried candies or milk chocolate, because these products were restricted by gastroenterologist. But we always used white sugar before.
As I wrote before, a great desire to get rid ofallergies (our son is allergic to nuts, my spouse is allergic to cats) provided us with great motivation and desire to change our traditional diet to a healthy one. My spouse decided to try raw food diet immediately, but I liked eggs and cheese so much and it was rather difficult for me to give up eating them. Of course, my son liked cheese too and I decided it better for us to be vegetarians. The was also another reason to change our nutrition.
As soon as we replaced traditional nutrition with healthy plant-based one, we faced with a situation: our son had no habit of eating salads. Especially greens. It was a dilemma how to convince a child to eat more vegetables. I told him a lot about benefits of eating vegetables and greens. Sometimes I tried to persuade him to eat the salad. But it didn’t work. Eventually I decided to have a conversation with a naturopath. She really helped me. She also suggested not to force the child to eat vegetables that he doesn’t like, despite their benefits.
One day my spouse watched a video of Russian blogger Roman Milovanov. His story is about a serious disease which doctors couldn’t cope and how he recovered only by keeping raw food diet. He was also allergic to citrus fruit. Eventually, he can eat them without any consequences. It was exiting information! The reason was that, at the age of 2 years old we accidentally found out that Egor was allergic to nuts. He was taken to the hospital after a small piece of cake with a walnut and got an injection.
Egor is 7.5 years old now. Up to 5 years he was a child on a traditional diet. But that’s not exactly true. When Egor was at the age of 3 years the doctor diagnosed dyskinesia and ordered a strict diet - nothing fat, fried, no fast food, no ice-cream, only one type of dietetic cookies, also minimum products that may contain chemistry. On the one hand there was a confusion, why a child who has never tried fast food, any chocolate bars and advertised candies, had this pain to disturb and why such diagnosis appeared.
