10 baby care and parenting things your mom could do without

Time does not stand still - our life is changing, and with it, the outlook on raising kids is renewed. Now in stores you can find thousands of products that are designed to facilitate childcare and ensure its all-round development. Following the advice of doctors and friends, mothers are looking for children's gadgets and devices, choosing the best finger paints and electronic thermometers. They consider all these adaptations to be extremely necessary, although their absence in the past did not prevent women from raising healthy offspring.

If our mothers and grandmothers do not understand why we need developing rugs and baby monitors, then modern dads laugh together at their wives and their mania to buy everything in children's stores. "Sanya, did you have a fitball in your childhood?" - after this phrase, the company of men begins to laugh and joke that without such a thing the child will not grow up to be full. The only thing fathers find truly useful and necessary are diapers. They really made life easier for parents, you can't argue with that.

In this article, we have prepared for you a selection of things that are extremely necessary for modern mothers that their parents did not need and made their husbands laugh.

Walkers

Mom's dream is to quickly hear how her baby begins to speak and take the first steps. To make this happen faster, devices such as walkers are purchased. In them, the mother seats her six-month-old baby. Having fun with toys on the front panel, the little one begins to move independently around the apartment.

Walkers are a modern invention, and our mothers instead used a simpler scheme: crib - playpen - floor. If the child wanted to see something closer or reach for something, he began to crawl. After some time, the baby independently stood up on both legs and began to master walking. These events took place naturally, without forcing or coercion.

Although walkers are popular nowadays, pediatricians do not recommend their use. Experts explain: to get to his feet and walk, the child must strengthen his back, and this requires some time to crawl. Mom shouldn't try to speed up this process. Otherwise, it can inadvertently harm the health of the child.

By the way, modern dads often support the idea of using walkers, because putting a three-month-old baby in them is a whole lot of fun. Wives often scold their husbands for such childishness.

Diapers

Now parents have no idea how they would manage without diapers. Babies often eat and go to the toilet. So they have to change their diapers 20 times a day, or even more often. After all, babies have very delicate and sensitive skin, on which irritations can appear.

How did our mothers cope in those days when there were no diapers at all? They had to make their own gauze diapers, boil them and constantly change them to prevent diaper rash.

Instead of diapers, women used to use oilcloth panties. They were put on babies at night so that they did not have to get up and change diapers. This "know-how", of course, had a negative effect on the delicate skin of babies.

Diapers are created specifically for the sensitive skin of babies. However, they also need to be used correctly. Boys should not be in diapers around the clock - due to constant overheating in the future, they may develop infertility (are diapers bad for boys?). It is also important to teach the child to potty from the same age from which our mothers began to do it. Going to the toilet should remain an unconditional instinct, and not worked out, as now "advanced" parents believe.

Baby monitor

Almost all modern mothers have this device. Every mother has a lot to do - washing, cooking, cleaning the house, some also manage to keep working. Of course, moms worry that they might not hear their babies cry. The baby monitor solves this problem and allows you to constantly stay in touch with the baby.

There were no such devices before. Our mothers could only use walkie-talkies, but they are of little use in everyday life. Therefore, women had to develop hearing acuity and intuition.

Baby monitors seem to be very useful devices, but they also have many opponents. The argument is this: a good mother will already hear any groaning of the child, so buying communication devices is a waste of money.

Electronic thermometer

It is convenient to use an electronic thermometer - it allows you to quickly measure the temperature in the mouth, on the forehead, in the ears - anywhere. For babies, they even produce thermometers in the form of pacifiers.

The mercury thermometer used by our mothers, more precisely electronic... If it breaks, people are at risk of suffering from the poisonous fumes of mercury, so you need to be careful with it.

Blender steamer

This household appliance is useful for introducing complementary foods: just put fresh vegetables in the bowl and leave them to cook. Then it remains to turn the bowl over so that the vegetables are milled in a puree. So cooking becomes quick and convenient, the steamer-blender itself is compact and does not take up much space. She also has a big drawback - a high price. Convenient, fast, compact, expensive.

Previously, women did not have such helpers in the kitchen. They themselves prepared for the winter potatoes, zucchini, squash, and other vegetables harvested in the garden. Then our mothers cooked them and kneaded them with a crush by hand. It's not as fast and easy as using a steamer-blender, but no one complained - everyone was happy.

Developing mat

This is a dense rug with different pictures and arcs, where toys hang. Here the child can not only play, but also his senses are stimulated. For this the developmental mat is painted in different colors, it makes sounds, plays melodies, and it is also made of different materials, which is useful for fine motor skills. The kid can lie on his back or roll over on his tummy - there is always entertainment for him from all sides.

In the USSR, young families, at best, lived in one-room apartments. Then there was an acute shortage of housing, so there was no question of developing rugs - they simply had nowhere to attach. Everybody had ordinary carpets at home. Parents also turned them away for fun in order to demonstrate to their grown children the consequences of not using diapers before.

Finger paint

Colored paper and pencils, plasticine and ordinary paints, felt-tip pens, coloring - all this is still widely used for children's creativity. The innovation of the 21st century is finger paints. Very young children do not yet know how to hold a brush or pencil; mastering such skills takes time. But in a jar of paint, each toddler can dip their pen, and then paint a sheet of paper or, for example, a wall in a bathroom. This is both fun entertainment, and creativity, and good training for fine motor skills of fingers.

Developing didactic materials and classes

Popular with modern parents are such means for the development of babies as books and didactic materials, including those based on the Montessori method, electronic alphabet, children's musical instruments. Some mothers connect their toddlers to developing activities when they are barely 9 months old. They believe that by stimulating the intellect of their child from an early age, they provide him with a successful future.

Not so long ago, kids were simply sent to kindergarten from the age of 3 and were not loaded with developmental activities. Family trips to nature, travel, reading children's encyclopedias provided them with a broad outlook. Helping my mother with the housework was a kind of work therapy that taught responsibility and independence.

Children's gadgets (laptops, tablets, phones)

Nowadays, more and more babies master gadgets even earlier than speech. Many parents encourage their kids to get to know smartphones and tablets early, because now is the time when you need to understand technology. The stores even sell a variety of children's gadgets, but babies easily become addicted and go headlong into the digital space.

Instead of technological innovations, our mothers offered us to play board games, read interesting books, draw, listen to audio stories, and sent us to sports sections. All this is no less useful and interesting.

Interactive toys

Children now do not suffer from a shortage of toys. To see their delight, many adults choose to speak or sing. Special laptops for children are also popular, which help to learn the alphabet, numbers, and train memory.

Previously, there were no gadgets and other modern means for raising children, but mothers still gave their children everything they needed. They were helped by a paper alphabet, ordinary toys and objects. Only in the 21st century has life changed dramatically. Many mothers have to work, they cannot sit on maternity leave for 3 years and devote as much time to their children as they would like. Therefore, the things that we told you about often become faithful helpers. And let the dads continue to laugh.