What should the guardians do?
It is the duty of parents and guardians to see that during childhood, the development of a child is taking place correctly. If they find that the size of the body of the child is not growing properly, they should take care to see that the child does not lie in a small cradle or in a small perambulator in an uncomfortable position. On the contrary, the child should be made to lie on the bed in the open or in a big perambulator, where it can stretch its hands and legs properly. The growing, child should get an opportunity of lying and playing freely on green grass under the sun and the blue sky.
Some parents make their children sleep on a single bed. All the parts of their body do not get an opportunity of developing properly, when children sleep together on one bed. Consequently they become short-statured. Hence the children should be made to sleep SEPARATELY ON DIFFERENT BEDS.
The foundation of one’s stature is laid in childhood. The child can grow properly during its childhood under the supervision of it parents. The child whose development takes place properly in the beginning, grows into a tall and well-built adult. It can, therefore, be inferred that if the good, the attentive and the educated parents take proper care, their offsprings can also grow into well-built and tall adults.
Undoubtedly, all the parents want that their children may become tall and posses an attractive personality. But only those parents can achieve their goal, who can back their desires with the right type of “efforts. And what is this efforts?
You may ask a hundred times as to what is this effort, but our reply will be one and “the same. While the child is in the growing stage, take every possible care to bring it up properly. Put your child in the open on a mat and afford it an opportunity to move its hands and legs freely, while lying on its back.
If the ground on which the child is lying down is hard and even, it will be able to do bodily exercise by moving its hands and legs. Thus while it grows into an adult, its body will become, proportionate, soft and modifiable.
On the contrary, several mothers, out of excessive affection, make their children sleep on a bed having thick cushion. Some of them think that the cushion is a sign of their affluent economic condition and assume that as their child is one in a million, why should it be made to suffer any trouble’-
And so they make their children sleep on a bed having thick cushions, in an uncomfortable position. You can very easily imagine the consequences.
Yes, you have correctly guessed—the child cannot develop properly. Even when the child has grown up, its bod. remains under-developed.