Seasonal Allergies

When I hear sneezing in serial after my son waking up, I know the spring and worm weather are come. Since his third year, he use anti-allergy therapy when problematic season start. And nothing change, only salvation is autumn and less pollen in air.

Seasonal allergies or seasonal allergic rhinitis are bunch of allergy symptoms that occurs during same periods every year. In that time trees, grass and weeds release pollen in air. Pollen count is higher in the morning and during warm, dry, breezy days, and lower in chilly and wet days. The immune system of people with who is allergic on pollen, treat pollen like attacker and realise some chemicals (histamine) in bloodstream. In that way, body fight with pollen, and then you get your allergies symptoms.

 

People could be allergies on few different type of pollen and spores. Usually, according timing of symptoms appearing you can assess what kind of allergy is about. 

Kids can develop allergies later in life, no matter they don't have it on birth (my son "got" allergy when he was 3 years old). It can happen when kid is 10 years old, and the symptoms can increase with kids growing up. Sure, genetic predispositions are miriacle, so I wasn't surprised when Vuk's allergy shows up.  In the other hand, it's possibly that with growing up allergy become weaker, and stop at some moment. 

Symptoms

If your kid get cold at the same period every year, you can blame seasonal allerens for that. Symptoms, which usaully came on suddenly and last as long as a person is exposed to allergen, can include:

• sneezing
• itchy nose and/or throat
• nasal congestion
• clear, runny nose
• coughing

With this you can get itching, watery and/or red eyes, which is called allergic conjunctivitis. Vuk is already used to that, so when it happen, he by himself wash eyes with clear water. After that itching and redness stop. Also, he very well knows that he can't touch weeds, because he most react on weeds pollen.

 

Source:http://firstmedcenters.com/library/allergy-at-a-glance/

If your child has wheezing and shortness of breath in addition to these symptoms, pay attention, because the allergy may have progressed into asthma.

Diagnosis

If you suspect that your kid has seasonal allergy, talk to his doctor. To be sure that it is allergy, you can do skin-test to your kid. It's not so good, because you traumatize kid, and next year kid can be allergic on some other allergen (it's changeable). So, if your kid don't have some dramatic problems, try to delay skin-testing with decreasing symptoms, until the chile is 7 years old.  

Treatment

There's no magic cure for seasonal allergies, it's possible just to allay symptoms. Start with reducing exposure to allergens. During the season keep windows closed, use air-condition, and stay in house while pollen count is high. And now, please, let somebody tells me: How to keep my son in house, while his friends play soccer on meadow in a summer? No way! He go out, and when he came back, I put him in a shower and clothes go in washing machine. We wash nose with saline, and that's it!

I can’t buy you this! I don’t have money!

Parents often Hide lack of money. They don’t recognize why they can’t buy something to their kids. The worst thing is to buy kid whatever he want, no matter how U can handle that, because „kid deserve that“. We often say „kid is good in school“. Great, you find the stimulation, and means for manipulation...manipulation with you. One my friend used to say „If you were my parents kid, they would go bankrupt!“(I was good student). He perfectly manipulated with his parents, but I don’t belive that they were satisfied. 

I don’t practice that. For me, it’s OK that kids also know why something we can’t buy. Not because „no reason“, it’s because we have strong reason. We earn money. Money is limited category (for the most of us) and should be spent wisely. So, be free to tell your kids „I don’t have money for that“ or „I don’t have money now“. It will be unpleasantly for the first time, but that’s reality, and kids will realise that better than you expect.

If you say “I said no, and it’s the end!”, you left kid confused. They don’t know what is the reason, or are they make mistake, or you just express your power over them.  The thirt is the worst!

Yes, it’s tough, but time and training (for them and you) will help. Maybe, even you fix your bad habits, especially if you prefer compulsive buying.

How to develop good communication with your children

Parenting is all about communicating with your child in the right way. We, parents, are grown-ups, with a lot of life experience, whilst the kids are still young and often misunderstood by us. My children, for instance, often tell me “But, mom, you just don’t understand me”. I admit I sometimes have problems in communication with them. However, I’m doing my best to comprehend what they’re trying to say or do. On the other hand, there are those opposite situations when my children cannot understand me. Moreover, they can respond to my words with plenty of eye-rolling, sighing, head-shaking, and showing that they don’t care without any regret.

In order to get full attention of your child, next time when you talk about something important, be aware of the following:

• Find the right time to talk about important issues. You can talk to your child before bedtime, when he or she is in bed, not sleeping, but playing with a toy or reading a book. Sit next to him or tuck yourself beside him in bed. Then take some time to gain his full attention until you start talking about those important issues. Or, you can choose to talk to your child when you’re outside, walking in the park. Remember, the best way to communicate with your children is when they feel relaxed.
• If they do the eye-roll every time you give them some advice, explain them it’s not the right attitude, and ask them if they disagree with what you are saying.
• If you child looks away, ask him to pay attention and make sure your talking won’t take too long.
• Turn off the TV while talking about something important, since TV draws attention away. You’ve probably noticed that they just don’t listen to you when the TV is on (some interesting content for kids, such as cartoons).

You should also be prepared for a conversation. Here are some tips to do so:

• If you want your child to be a good listener, make sure you’re a good role model. Take some time to listen to them and show them you pay attention to what they are saying. Thus, when they are talking about their problems or answer your questions, use phrases such as “I agree”, “Really?”, “Yes, it must be so.”…You can also nod or shake your head.
• Don’t let anything disturb conversation with your child, like a phone call or SMS. A rude thing to do is to interrupt a conversation by saying “Wait a minute, I have to take this call and then we continue!”. This will only show the child that your phone call is more important than the things you wanted to talk about. Therefore, choose the right time for conversation.
• Don’t give endless lectures. A conversation that seems never to end, in which you do all the talking, can be exhausting for a child. In addition, if he knows that you are prone to it, he will probably withdraw from the conversation, not willing to participate. You won’t even reach the point “go in one ear and out the other”.
• Avoid criticism. This is probably the most difficult task for you, especially if the conversation is about something your child has done wrong. Try to put yourself in his place and reduce your criticism in the best possible way, so he might not be aware of it.

Use some of these methods and tips, and you and your child will learn how to listen to each other. This will help you develop good communication with them, which is a fundamental part of a healthy relationship.

(My post on NDF Blog)

Peasant dress

When I got my son, I was so happy! I fell in love in his little hands and legs, and I love him more and more each day. Then, I had got daughter and realize another dream…girls are so sweet for dressing! She was 6 months old, when I sewed her first dress. 

This weekend we spent in taking photos.

Peasant dresses are great for hot days, same as for a little bit colder days. 

You can find Tutorial and Pattern on SEW much ado. Pattern on blog is for 0-3 months old babies, and you can proportional increase it, depends of age of your girl.