Effectiveness of early pedagogical support of a family in solving health problems of a child of the first year of life
At the present time, when children's health statistics are steadily deteriorating, work with families as primary agents of socialization, which establish the habits and values of a healthy lifestyle, the study of the experience of informal subjects of pedagogical activity becomes relevant. Specified subjects conduct activities on the basis of the pedagogical principle of “peer educates peer”. The article presents the results of the survey of mothers who received assistance from support groups and counselors on natural feeding, the sample was 284 respondents living in various regions of Russia. More than 60% of them needed such help in the first 60 days of the baby’s life. Under the Education Act parents are responsible for the health of children and their upbringing, and from the second month they have the right to receive free consultative, methodological, pedagogical, psychological support from the specialists of the preschool education system. In practice (for various reasons), such support is not provided. The effectiveness of the health-saving work of normal pedagogical subjects with families can be determined by such a criterion as the duration of natural feeding. As the results of the survey show, the effectiveness is significantly higher in mothers who received support.