All Entries Tagged With: "little monsters"

A number of children are guarded or sluggish in warming up to others – a disposition that could surface as soon as infanthood. A baby that creates a ruckus when approached by anyone except their parents, a tot that mulishly refutes to come out of the buggy, or a preschool-going kid who holds back when his schoolmates are out at play might be saying in hushed tones that he is not yet prepared for this. Such kids feel overpowered by stimulus like views, resonances, sounds and commotion. They could also get apprehensive in the most harmless, kid-play settings. What truly confuses parents is the kid’s illogical reaction to what assures to be a grand time. The shift would become more hassle-free if one talks to them in detail regarding what was planned for them. Few children bewilder their parents  [...]

Lice : These parasitic creatures snugly seek shelter on the scalp and hair, fasten their eggs on to the hair roots, and gleefully live their entire life cycle comprising of nit, nymph and adulthood on the individual’s head for time spans of 1-3 weeks. Icky Quotient: Hits the roof. Lice are discernible, vampire-like, blood-thirsty insects that inhabit in congregations on your child’s head. Merely visualizing about them is enough to make one crazily itch one’s head. Pop in the intrinsic disgrace linked with lice infection, and one is assured a major annoyance. Proliferating Mechanism: These pests frequently flit locations from head, cushions, combs and if it has inhabited someone’s lice-inundated head, then it is a probable vector. Lice are known to survive for quite a few days  [...]