How to Raise a Mentally Healthy Child Series 1 When it comes to health, people are more concerned about physical health, what they should eat, what they should drink, and how to get less sick. In this regard, most parents can say a set of things, but for how to make the child’s mental health, we may be confused. Maybe some parents are worried about this, how come children nowadays have so many problems? If you want to raise mentally healthy children, you need to know how mental health is achieved. Mental development, like physical development, has its own objective law, if we violate this law may produce problems, resulting in future interpersonal tension, unable to adapt to social life. Now, let’s take a look at the different stages of a child’s life and see what we can do to benefit the child’s mental health. Neonatal period When a newborn baby is born, the family is overjoyed. But for babies, leaving the warmth and comfort of the womb, to this strange world, the heart is full of tension and fear, the baby’s greatest need is a sense of security. If his sense of security is not satisfied at this time, it will lead to insecurity when he grows up, so that he cannot trust anyone in interpersonal communication and cannot establish intimate relationships. In view of this characteristic, it is recommended that people pay attention to the following points: 1, when the child was frightened and cried, do not care, think that crying for a while will be fine. At this time to hold the child tightly in the arms, but also to say some words of comfort, do not think that babies do not understand do not say, this is born with the ability, although do not understand the statement, but the child will be from the tone of voice, tone of voice and other non-verbal information to obtain a sense of security, and this is the early development of language for pediatrics is very helpful. 2, let the child more physical contact with the mother, as well as breastfeeding, which can give the child a sense of intimacy. Promote the child was born soon, that is, let the baby lying in the mother’s arms sucking on the nipple, not only can promote breast milk discharge, but also can give the child a very safe feeling. 3, grasp the timing of breastfeeding, breastfeeding basic principle is that the child does not cry do not want to eat milk time do not feed, when the child cried no pulling no urine may be hungry, this time feeding on the child’s mental health development has the advantage of not having to adhere to the principle of timing. There is a study, pay attention to breastfeeding process, tracking to the child grows up, feel not hungry to feed the child grows up easy to gullible, where the hunger is so fierce cry around no one to feed the child grows up not easy to trust others, this is biased, affecting the normal interaction with others. 4, more talk to the child and eye contact, the child’s voice and action to respond. Touch your child more often, some studies show that this can significantly reduce the occurrence of skin diseases. 5, the home to maintain a natural state can be, not for the sake of the child and keep too quiet.