The basket of treasures is a play proposal created by Elinor Goldschmied (1910-2009), an English psychopedagogist and educator.
It is suitable for children from the age of 6 months, when they can sit comfortably and begin to interact with the world, observing it and wanting to grasp what is around them... but at the same time it happens that the child complains, as if bored. Of course, mothers can't spend all their time entertaining children... so the treasure basket becomes an interesting
Children - like us adults - encounter small or large frustrations every day because it is not possible, in real life, to have or do what you want all the time, to get everything right away!
It is important then, dear parents, that children can, from a very early age, train tolerance to them. Let children be able to cope with them, starting with the small ones (but therefore within their reach) because avoiding our children every little frustration makes them fragile and insecure, and that is
On the use of the feeding bottle we must make a distinction.
If a child is breastfed, the bottle will perhaps be useful from the 6th month onwards, when weaning begins and it is necessary to give those liquids that the child no longer takes with its mother's milk (water, but also freshly squeezed orange juice, fruit tea...).
For a baby breastfed with formula milk, on the other hand, the use of a bottle is necessary from the first days of life [read more about how to give a bottle]. (In this