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did you know that the dreaded ‘school failure’ can be prevented from birth? Parents are responsible for awakening interest in learning through play at this early stage of growth, from birth giving and appropriate attitudes to meet future educational problems and school failure.

The key? The stimulating games that develop intelligent attitudes to learning, such as sustained attention and concentration, good vision or the ability to keep the baby absorbed in one activity for several minutes.

The way is very simple, just spend 20 minutes every day to play with the kids, leaving them to discover for themselves the functions of their toys, reinforcing their attitudes expressing fascination with small successes every day.

Finally, and only to serve as a base guide but clueless parents, the meeting closed with the changing levels of sustained attention through the first years of life: thus, when children are two years, their ability to be concentrated in an activity while they play will be about 4 minutes to three years, 6 minutes, and with four, 8 minutes.

According to some experts, women who give birth for the first time have less need for pain relief during labor if delivery takes place in a tub full of water. Researchers at the University of Southampton in England, believe that the draft during the first stages of labor greatly reduces the need for epidural injections.

The news, contained in an article released on the website of the British Medical Journal, shows that women may benefit from some of the effects of a birth in the pool without having to necessarily give birth to the baby underwater. Some experts, in fact, are worried that a birth in water is harmful to the baby.

Water is the element which is mainly composed of the human body, so is the most natural for us.

The first written record of a birth in the water goes back to 1805!, But now the pioneers of this technique so innovative and effective, and were Leboyer Odent, who demonstrated the benefits of this “gentle birth” in a 1984 study. The water, exerting a relaxing effect on the whole body, helps the woman to endure the pain caused by contractions making them acquire the right distance and clear the mind.