Children are all "curious babies". Among the hundreds of thousands of questions they ask, questions about the body are the most embarrassing for parents.
For example: "Why hiccups ?", "Why are you angry?", "How does rice turn into poop?", etc. These questions give parents a headache. They can just prevaricate, but they are afraid of misleading their children; But the detailed explanation is not clear to the parents themselves.
Don’t worry, this picture book "Outside the Human Body", which won the 2020 International Latino Book Honor Award, is definitely a good assistant for parents and a good partner for babies.
This book is very interesting. The wonderful and vivid pictures help children understand how their own bodies are different from others; how the body converts external substances into body needs; and how our bodies protect us from the outside world.
01 The body is a "machine" and needs energy
"Oh, my baby is very picky about food. He only likes to eat meat and won't eat a bite of vegetables."
"My baby doesn't like to eat at all and eats snacks every day."
Moms When we get together, we can vomit endless bitterness, exchange various tricks for raising children, and vividly describe the process of fighting wits and courage with children.
In fact, instead of racking your brains to "coax" and "cheat", it is better to let the children understand why people need to eat. In the picture book "Outside the Human Body",
gives a comprehensive display of how the body operates from the outside to the inside.
Through this book and by interpreting the pictures, children can understand that they are not an isolated individual. They will come into contact with others and be connected with various materials in this world.
Of course, external substances will also have an impact on him. The human body is like a machine, constantly running and working.
This machine needs to continuously obtain substances from the outside world to provide itself with energy. These substances include air and water, as well as our daily diet.
not only tells the baby to eat well, but also draws the path of how food enters the body. What is particularly interesting is that this path is hidden behind an ordinary little boy. The first thing we see is this little boy holding an apple in his hand.
Just behind the same page, there is actually a picture-in-picture hidden. Below there is an identical little boy holding an apple. The difference is that the little boy behind has no clothes and even his internal organs are clearly visible. This is digestive system.
"How does rice turn into poop?" This question can be understood by children themselves.
02 The body is a "machine" that needs to be maintained.
In daily life, we communicate with the outside world through the body and perceive the outside environment. We can "see" the world through our eyes, "hear" the world through our ears, and smell various kinds of things. Taste, that is our nose communicating with the outside world.
These eyes, ears, nose, etc. are all the organs of our body that receive external signals. The information they feed back to the body is collectively called "sense".
What the eyes are responsible for is called "vision", what the ears are responsible for is called "hearing", what the mouth is responsible for is called "taste", what the nose is responsible for is called "", and what the skin is responsible for is called "touch".
When these sense organs transmit information to us, we will react to the outside world. These reactions may stimulate us to speak, shout, or make us feel angry, want to cry, or want to laugh. In the picture book "Outside the Human Body",
explains these "feelings" and "reactions" and even provides solutions. When encountering these uncomfortable "feelings" and "reactions", let children Learn to deal with your emotions.
For example, when we are angry, our body becomes stiff and our heartbeat speeds up.
At this time, the picture book guides the children to think: Have you ever discovered that it is easy to get angry but difficult to calm down? How to calm down?
You can calm down your emotions by adjusting your breathing, or imagine yourself smelling a flower, take a deep breath and then exhale little by little, repeat this 3 times.
What can make the body happy? Which ones make the body uncomfortable? Let the baby learn to distinguish emotions and learn to take good care of the body machine.
03 The body is a "machine", and it is necessary to "read" and understand its data.
Parents cannot accompany their baby throughout his life. The only thing that can always accompany him is his body.
Many parents are overprotective of their children and help them complete many things without letting their babies take any risks. On the surface, it protects the baby from harm, but in fact, it reduces the baby's opportunities to communicate with the outside world.
If a child lacks exercise since childhood and has poor hands-on ability, he will have less contact with the outside world, the feedback information his body will give him will not be comprehensive enough, and the database stored in the machine will be incomplete, which will have a great impact on the child's future growth. .
For example, when a child poops "Smelly", the parents are afraid that the child will dirty his hands and will not let him do it himself. Now that there is a toilet, the child sits on the toilet and finishes defecating. When the child calls out, an adult will come over and help him "wipe his butt", and the water will flush and it will be clean.
Children almost don’t know what the “stinky” discharged from their bodies looks like. They only know that it is extremely dirty and smelly, and they “disdain” the feces discharged from their bodies.
"Outside the Human Body" has a particularly detailed introduction to "defecation", because this is a very important part of our body, and we must not ignore it.
We can judge whether our body is dehydrated by the shape of "defecation"; we can judge whether we have eaten too many snacks recently based on the time between "defecation".
The process of "defecation" is not only the last link of our digestive system, but also the data report printed out by the body machine after it completes a cycle.
Through this data report, we can understand what adjustments need to be made to the substances that communicate with the outside world.
04 Written at the end
Let children have a correct understanding of their own bodies from an early age, and learn to take good care of this machine that will accompany them throughout their lives. This popular science knowledge will benefit them throughout their lives.
The human body is a complex machine. Parents can't explain things clearly to their children in just a few words. "Outside the Human Body" can do it for us.
's relaxed and interesting language, exquisite pictures, and interesting picture-in-picture format will surely make children put it down.
Maybe, within a few days, your baby will be your teacher explaining the human body to you!
Yan Xiao: Freelance writer
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