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Infants and toddlers grow and develop best in loving, stable, nurturing environments. You, as the adult caregiver, can help infants, toddlers and their families further develop their foundations for future healthy physical growth and development. In your high-quality early care and learning setting, you can create opportunities for infants and toddlers to experience physically healthy approaches to learning and development by first caring for yourself.

照顾护理人员

As an infant and toddler caregiver, you do a lot! You help provide a nurturing, stable, and responsive learning environment for infants, toddlers and their families. You respond to their needs quickly and appropriately. Think about the physical energy it takes to care for infants who can’t hold up their own heads or 2-year-olds who can run and jump. Caring in this way for infants and toddlers means it’s essential that you take care of yourself too.

在第一课程中，您有机会思考物理开发对您的意义。重要的是要考虑激励我们保持身体活动的东西。对于我们每个人来说，答案将是不同的，因为我们自己的身体活动的方法是个人的。然而，我们知道，定期的身体活动对心脏有益，并且它可以帮助构建强肌肉并保持健康的体重。我们也知道它马刺释放内啡肽（促进幸福的化学物质），可以帮助我们更好地睡觉。特别是因为关心婴儿和幼儿可能会很大压力，你应该努力维持定期的身体活动。教学是一种高倦怠率的职业。满足婴儿和幼儿的需求要求护理人员身体和精神上健康。制作身体活动的时间将减少压力水平并有助于防止倦怠。

您关心自己身体和物理发展的方式非常重要，因为护理关系是对儿童早年发生的学习和增长的重大影响。狗万app怎么下载您对婴儿和幼儿的关系质量直接连接到您的身体和心理健康。花点时间阅读附件，Taking Care of Ourselves，了解照顾身体和身体健康的方法，包括处理压力的方法。

Healthy Active Living for Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families

Children who are physically active during their early years and remain active throughout childhood are likely to experience many positive benefits to their physical health and development, such as building strength, flexibility and endurance, and developing and maintaining healthy bones (Ganley & Sherman, 2000). Being physically active supports other areas of growth and development, too, including emotional health, including reducing feelings of anxiety and depression (Ganley & Sherman, 2000).

有活跃的父母和家庭成员的儿童与他们一起参加定期体育活动的人更有可能在整个生命中积极积极（总统的身体健康和体育委员会）。成年人奠定了终身身体健康和发展的基础，当他们在体育活动中展示享受时，鼓励幼儿探索他们周围的世界，从事儿童导向的活动，并计划有目的和适当的活动和戏剧。

Learn more about the ways in which adults play an important role in helping infants and toddlers develop physical skills and experience joy from physical activity by downloading and reading the handout,Physical Fitness in Infants and Toddlers. Intentionally creating time for the development of physical skills will help this become a regular part of a healthy lifestyle. You can also access the Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures website here:https://healthykidshealthyfuture.org/5-healthy-goals/get-kids-moving/to get ideas about how to promote healthy eating and exercise habits for the children in your care.

Encouraging and Supporting Healthy Physical Development and Activity for Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families

鼓励和支持健康的身体发展pment and activity for infants, toddlers, and their families happens through the relationships you have developed. For example, by building trusting relationships with infants and toddlers, you help them feel safe to explore and experiment throughout the environment. As they explore and experiment with the things they encounter, they have opportunities to develop and strengthen skills. As infants move their arms, legs, and heads toward familiar people, they are developing their large-motor muscles, which helps them as they begin to learn how to crawl, sit, pull themselves up, and then walk.

Through your relationship with infants and toddlers, you also have the opportunity to respond, notice, and encourage their efforts. Asking questions of families and sharing information from your observations also provides an opportunity to continue responding to each individual infant or toddler in your care. You can learn even more about building trusting relationships with families in Lesson Three of the Infant & Toddler Families course.

Encouraging and supporting infant and toddler healthy physical development includes:

• Learning from families – Take time to understand the family’s perspective and thoughts on the importance of physical development and on the experiences and opportunities that support physical growth and development.
• Understanding the milestones – Infants and toddlers reach developmental milestones at different ages, developing and mastering skills in their own way. Keep in mind that the developmental milestones you are familiar with may not apply or be relevant for each family.
• Observing and adapting – Listen to and observe how infants and toddlers use their senses and motor skills to learn. Adapt your caregiving strategies to fit their needs.“You ran so quickly to the slide. Would you like to try hopping to the slide this time?” “Those are a lot of steps to climb. I can help you by holding your hand as you walk up?”
• Reflecting on what you see and hear – Take time to reflect on your observations. Consider the experiences you offer for physical growth and development, your own comfort with movement, and your attitudes toward safety and risk taking
• 与婴儿和幼儿分享，你注意到他们做什么 -“My goodness, Sarah, you are working so hard! Keep reaching…you are almost there…you did it! You reached and grabbed the rattle!” “You have a big smile on your face! You pulled yourself up…all by yourself and now you’re standing!”

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身体健康涉及了解如何最好地照顾自己并争取平衡。考虑并尝试以下一个或多个策略：

For additional ideas on self-care, take theSocial Emotional Learning for Teachers (SELF-T) course on the Focused Topics track of the Virtual Lab School.