Tempering in a kindergarten, or In a healthy child a healthy spirit and body

Long-term studies and observations have shown that children's development and the degree of their health are positively influenced by tempering in childhood. Since the child attends a kindergarten for a long time, it is in this school that special attention is paid to hardening.

Tempering in kindergarten is aimed at increasing the resistance of the organism to pathogens of diseases, and the children's organism as a result better resists sharp changes in air temperatures.

There are certain types of tempering in kindergarten, which are used today:

1. End-to-end ventilation of the group, which is carried out at a time when children are not in the room.
2. Wipe the body with a wet towel, repeated washing, dousing the limbs.
3. If the kindergarten has a swimming pool, the day of the child includes swimming.
4. Regular morning exercises with a set of breathing exercises, outdoor games.
5. Reception of solar and air baths.
6. Sleep during the day, which is held with an open window.

Teachers sometimes use the Riga method of hardening. It consists in the fact that two mats with spikes are laid on the floor. One of them is put a napkin, previously soaked in salt solution. The child should walk for 10 seconds on this rug, then as much on dry. Then you need to wipe your hands, face and neck with cool water.

There are a number of rules, the observance of which involves tempering children in kindergarten:

1. Procedures should be conducted regularly. Educators should ensure that the training sessions are conducted every day. Otherwise, it will not have any positive result. Parents need to remember that at home the child needs to be allowed to walk barefoot as much as possible, regular walks in the fresh air are also important. It is important not to forget about water procedures.
2. Remember that in the process of hardening it is important to do everything gradually, not allowing sharp changes in the temperature of air and water. So, all walks and games held on the street must take place in the proper weather conditions. As for quenching with water, its temperature should be lowered by approximately 1-1.5 degrees per day.
3. Tempering in kindergarten should include a variety of types of exercises and activities. The effect of sunlight, massage, water and air procedures, and motor activity should be provided .
4. Each educator should remember that tempering in a kindergarten should be completely oriented towards the child's condition. A child should not have a feeling of fear, he should not cry. Hardening is therefore carried out in a game form.

Important is the fact that you can only temper and need a healthy child. If the child is weakened, heavy loads are contraindicated to him, and he must be monitored if he participates in the hardening process.

As a rule, the educator should keep a journal in which it is necessary to note all the illnesses of children, the intervals between the elements of hardening, the qualitative characteristics of the procedures performed, their duration and intensity, and the features of the temperature regime.

For successful procedures, it is necessary to divide children not into two groups. In the first group, identify healthy children and children who were previously hardened. The second group should include those who have poor health and children who are hardened for the first time. Tempering in kindergarten must necessarily take into account a similar graduation in order to differentiate the approach and thus achieve the most positive results.