The days leading up to Tet are always the busiest. Parents rush around taking care of year-end work, cleaning the house, and cooking. Experts advise never to neglect your children at this time.
Today, December 24th of the lunar calendar, preschool children and students of all levels in Ho Chi Minh City have had Tet holiday 2025.
Previously, in school activities, Thanh Pho Kindergarten (District 3, Ho Chi Minh City) had folk festivals for preschool children to understand the traditional Tet holiday, experience games and Tet dishes, dance and sing, gain more knowledge and skills, and connect with friends and teachers. This is also an activity in the current Preschool Education Program.
Children learn how to wrap banh chung during the traditional Tet festival at Thanh Pho Kindergarten on January 21.
Before the Lunar New Year holiday, in the parent meeting to review the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year, Ms. Ho Thu Thao, Principal of Thanh Pho Kindergarten, reminded parents to ensure and maintain the same routine for their children at home with their families as when they are at school. Children need to eat and sleep on time. In particular, parents need to prevent diseases for their children during the Tet holiday, especially during this time when many children suffer from respiratory diseases.
"We also remind parents that in the days before Tet, during Tet, everyone is busy and in a hurry, but parents must pay close attention to taking care of their children, ensuring electrical safety and safety when playing. Especially, children must be kept safe, away from hot water and boiling water, because during Tet, many families often focus more on cooking," said Ms. Ho Thu Thao.
Children experience traditional Lunar New Year at City Kindergarten
Preventing the risk of children being burned by boiling water on Lunar New Year
Specialist Doctor Phan Thi Thanh Ha, Head of the Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases Department, District 8 Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, said that during the days before and during Tet, parents are often very busy, rushing to take care of work at the office, as well as housework, cleaning, and cooking. During this time, children are on vacation, especially children of nursery and kindergarten age, who are often hyperactive, so parents must constantly keep an eye on their children, not neglect their young children, and prevent the risk of accidents happening to them.
"During Tet, every family cooks more dishes than usual, such as boiled chicken, boiled banh chung, banh tet, soup... You have to keep an eye on small children, keep them far away from the stove, hot water pots. Or if after cooking, parents do not pay attention and leave the bowl of soup, pot of boiling water on the table, within reach of small children, it is very dangerous for children of nursery and kindergarten age. Children will be curious, hyperactive, they will tiptoe, reach for these bowls of boiling water, which is very dangerous and can cause burns to children. Or during the days before Tet, parents are busy cleaning the house. Children are sitting on the floor, parents carry a pot of hot soup without paying attention, they can slip and burn the children. So you always have to pay attention to ensure absolute safety for children", Dr. Phan Thi Thanh Ha noted.
Tet holiday is always a valuable experience for children at school, teachers hope you will have a safe and happy Tet holiday.
Dr. Thanh Ha also emphasized that if a child is unfortunately burned by boiling water, parents must immediately rinse the damaged skin area under cold water. Absolutely do not apply toothpaste or pour fish sauce on the wound, this is ineffective, and also increases the risk of infection. After that, the child must be taken immediately to the nearest medical facility. In addition, during Tet, it is necessary to pay attention to ensuring food hygiene and safety, preventing the risk of food poisoning due to eating food of unknown origin, not properly preserved and processed.
The Head of the Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases Department, District 8 Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, also said that during Tet, many families still have the habit of using coal to cook banh chung, banh tet, stews (or use coal to heat closed rooms in many places with cold weather). Medical experts recommend not using coal for cooking and heating, especially in small spaces, as this can cause asthma in children and CO poisoning. There have been many cases of victims being poisoned by CO causing serious consequences in many localities up to now.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/giap-tet-nguyen-dan-at-ty-vi-sao-cha-me-khong-duoc-lo-la-tre-nho-185250123153111799.htm
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