In this article, a list of traditions from around the world - from those that may seem strange methods to very interesting.Read, it will be interesting!
1. Packing cord in a wooden box (Japan) .
When the child for the first time are cut, most retain a lock of hair, the other shoe store first child ... But Japanese mother cherish the umbilical cord.
In Japanese hospitals, the umbilical cord of the child is packed in a wooden box and give the mother during discharge.The box sometimes put the doll in a kimono, which symbolizes the soul of the child.Kimono thus can be deployed, and the umbilical cord is placed inside.It is believed that the storage of umbilical cord thus guarantee a positive relationship between the child and the mother.
A week after the child's birth parents and half-baked close relatives carried out for the child Oshichiya ceremony, during which the child receives its official name in front of a home altar.
2. Street Sleep Baby (Denmark and Sweden) .
you would have left her baby outside in the cold during daytime sleep?Most Scandinavian parents did not even ask this question.For them it is - a part of the daily routine, because of the belief that the cold air helps babies sleep better and eat.
Danish and Swedish babies spend the day sleeping off the balcony or on the street, while their mothers and fathers shop or cafe.Furthermore, in most kindergarten children in Swedish laid sleep outside, despite the low temperature.
theory of sleep street is that children in the open air, in summer and winter, are less likely to catch a cold.Parents believed that being a whole day in a room with 30 other children brings negative results.
Danish State Department of Health also recommends the practice.Some companies even make street children alarm that informs parents when their babies are awake.
3. Each newborn gets "box Mother and Child" by the government (Finland) .
There is a saying that "every child is born with a loaf of bread in his hand."Well, in Finland babies are born with a box!
for 75 years pregnant women Finnish government gives the box.This - the initial set of clothes, diapers and toys, and the box can even be used as a bed.
Mothers have a choice between receiving boxes or amounts of cash, which currently stands at 140 euros (190 US dollars), but 95% choose the box because its content is much more.
originally created for low-income families, the box was made available to all parents in 1949.Since this is the main product of new parenthood and a sign that no matter in which layer of society they were born, all Finnish babies get equality in the beginning of his life.
4. Shake the newborn in a large sieve to help him get used to the vagaries of life (Egypt) .
in Egypt today are inextricably linked life and number seven.It was on the seventh day of life of the child show the world in a ceremony called Sebuh.
According to tradition, my mother puts a child, dressed in a white robe in a large sieve and lightly shaking it to help the infant to get used to the vagaries of life.Then, put the baby on a blanket on the floor with a knife, placed along his chest to ward off evil spirits, while the guests scatter grain, gold and gifts around him.All this - a symbol of abundance, whose wish child.Mother knocks seven times on the child's body to ward off evil spirits, while the guests sing spells to child always listens to his mother.
procession of fire and incense follows a new mother, illuminating the way.Singing children and guests follow it with candles and incense to bless the house and its inhabitants.
During Sebuh choose a name for the child, lighting a few candles at the beginning of the ceremony, each of which corresponds to the name of the child.The candle that burns the longest, indicating the name of the child.
5. Put the baby on the floor with the expansion of symbolic objects on it to find out his future (Armenia) .
When a child first teeth erupt, Armenian parents celebrate ceremony Agra Hadig.They put the child on the floor and put it in front of symbolic objects, such as a tape measure, stethoscope, blade, book, and others.The parents of the child are asked to select one of them.
The one thing that a child will choose and who will play symbolizes his future.For example, if the boy selects roulette, this means that it will be an architect or engineer.
6. Boy or girl?(USA) .
Americans have a tradition that has appeared recently, but already well accustomed.A doctor who does ultrasound sex of the child does not tell prospective parents, and wrote it on a piece of paper and sealed in an envelope.Future parents, the baker give the envelope, which should bake a cake.
the appointed day, friends and family are going on holiday, which is called «Gender reveal party», which solemnly cut the cake.If the filling pink cake, will be a girl.If the blue - a boy.
7. Mom prepares gifts to everyone who visits the child (Brazil) .
In Brazil, pregnant woman prepares a basket of gifts, which distributes to all who come to the hospital when the child is born.Typically, small gifts such as candy, fridge magnets, mini notebooks, bags and even tiny bottles of perfume, all of them chooses the mother before the child is born.Often applied on souvenirs child's name and thanks for visiting.
8. Baby feet should not touch the ground, as the newborn - the blessing of heaven (Bali) .
While some parents throughout the world do not feel comfortable leaving the kids playing on the floor, legs Balinese babies should not touch the ground before his 210 th day of life, because the child is considered a divine being who came down from heaven.When the child's legs touch the ground for the first time, it represents a kind of border crossing, after which the child becomes a man.
Articles Source: vospitaj.com
