Preschoolers' Status...

Status of a Preschooler

Who are Preschoolers?

 Children in between the age of 3 and 5 years are defined as Preschoolers. This is the fourth phase of entire 10 phases of life of a human being and also called as the Phase of Early-childhood.
Preschoolers’ Respective development in this phase :

• They start learning some common words according to mother and family members’ pronunciation.
• They start exploring their surroundings.
• Process of imitating adults’ behaviour gets fast.
• They complete their potty training and cleaning process.
•  They keep trying to be familiar with household properties and gadgets.
• They start learning alphabets.
• They Make demands for the things like; tricycle, bat-ball, doll, moving-toys etc.

Physical activity:

• They start walking, running, jumping and playing (under elders’ guidance); leaving their crawling back.
• They start asking about the things around them and what they have yet seen.
• Make question after questions, regularly.
• They do more than think.
• Start to communicate their feelings.

Preschoolers’ Feeding and food:

• They start eating everything what their parents take, normally.
• This phase of life needs complementary feeding and food arrangements.
• This age demands energy dense food which should be low in volume but high in energy with some added edible oils or fats. This age is called as the physical foundation phase of life because diet taken in this phase maintain their health for a long time.
• Milk, butter, fruits, green vegetable, cereals and grain-food are the main contents of a preschooler- meal.
• This age is fit starting taking, meat, eggs, fish etc. if they like to take.
• Their food supplements should be consistent and not unnecessarily diluted. They should be given complete diet how much the needed for.
• They require meals around 5 to 6 times a day but not less than 5 times.

Preschoolers’ protection needs:

• They mostly don’t care about verbal directions so they need extra attention when they are;
• Playing, running or walking independently.
• Standing on or crossing a busy road, any bridge or a narrow or deep area.
• They should be kept away from bathroom or any other deep water-filled area, electronic and electrical gadgets, heavy-weight equipments, any sharp or pointed thing or some things like these.
• Their toys and other equipments must be checked properly by the parents before providing them.
• They must not be out of sight even for a second; no matter they are sleeping or sitting on the floor having been cool.
• They should always be watched keeping them inside home and saving from misdealing of something which may harm them.
• They should not be permitted to practice any practice-based-activity like cycle-riding, swimming or hammering.
  

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