This is the Most Important Nutrition for Kids

Besties, what is your favourite food?

Talking about food, it is important to keep your dietary habits in balance.

Let’s share this information to Moms and Dads so it can help you to get better dietary habit every day.

Hi Moms and Dads!

Every day, Moms make sure the family has a proper meal, are you?

Even your little one and other family members are being fed three meals a day, are you sure the meals are healthy and safe? Maybe the meals are not having a sufficient nutrition for your kids to help them grow. 

Moms always have to make sure the nutrition of the healthy food that being served to the kids. Before serving the food, we should know some important nutrition for your little one, such as:

  1. Vitamin C

In your body, vitamin C is helping to form and repair your red blood cells, bones and tissues. Vitamin C makes kids gum stay healthy and also enhance wound recovery, boost immune system, prevent infections, and help the body to absorb iron from the food. Moms and Dads, you can serve papaya, pineapple and melon as a source of vitamin C for the kids.

  1. Vitamin E

Vitamin E can improve your immunity system, DNA repairing and another metabolism process. Moreover, vitamin E also important in child growth and development to keep them from bad radicals which can broke some healthy cells. Vitamin E is contained in spinach, grains and avocado. 

  1. Vitamin D

Vitamin D can help your kids body to absorb minerals better such as calcium to have stronger teeth and bones, because in kids’ growth and development, bone mass should be monitored well. Moms and Dads can serve egg, tofu, tempeh and fish for getting vitamin D in daily meals.

  1. Magnesium 

Magnesium is one of the important minerals for kids’ health and growth. Some magnesium benefits are keeping our bones strong, maintaining stable heart beat pace, boost your immune system, maintaining muscles and keeping nerve functions. Moms and Dads, magnesium is contained in some fruits such as banana and avocado, tofu, fish and vegetables. 

  1. Vitamin A 

Vitamin A is important for our eyes and bones development. This vitamin also can keep us to stay away from infections, improve our health and cells growth, and nerve functions, such as hair, nail and skin. This vitamin is contained in beef, chicken liver, milk and radiant colour fruits. 

Beside those foods, don’t forget to always eat our most favourite snack ever, Hello Panda, the yummiest filling biscuits! It’s such a delicious, crunchy and addictive biscuit. Let’s serve the best nutrition for our kids to support better growth and development for them!

How to Turn Workouts into Regular Activity

Besties, do you want to stay as healthy as you can be?

When you are in a healthy condition, you can do everything with your family and friends.

One way to stay fit is to workout regularly. Don’t forget to bring Hello Panda, the yummiest filling biscuit with various flavors such as Chocolate, Milk Vanilla, Cookies and Cream, Cream Cheese and Strawberry, which always be there especially when you do some workouts.

Please do share this information to Moms and Dads to cheer them up while doing workouts! 

Workout is an activity that can help you stay fit physically and mentally. Not only for adults, but children also need to workout to optimize their growth and development.

The earlier children are being introduced with workouts and exercises, it will make parents easier to ask them training their physical condition and ability.

Moms, do you know, kids who are in 3-5 years old range need minimum 60 minutes exercises every day? By doing some exercises with your kids, it may help them to optimize their growth and development at that age.

Furthermore, workouts can maintain kids’ mentality to stay well. It is related with their focus and concentration ability so they can achieve more academically.

Workouts regularly also can boost confidence. They also can reduce some risk on health problems such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

So, how to build your little on to desire and discipline on their workouts so it can be done regularly? Check these out!

  • Be the Role Model

Kids always try to see and copy their parents good and bad habit. If they see their parents active physically and have fun in that activity, they will also try to stay active in their life. Moms and Dads, you should be the role model first so your kids can follow your steps in having a healthy and active life.

  • Limit Gadget Use 

It is better to limit the gadget use in your house, especially for your kids. Moms, you can replace the screen time with another fun activities, like playing throw and catch the ball in your garden.

  • Workout Sufficiently 

Make sure when you set workout to your kids, it should not in a long duration. Set the proper and sufficient time for them to workout based on their age and health condition.

  • Make Workout as a Daily Activity

Let workout be done by all of the family members. They must be involved and responsible in doing the workouts. When kids see all of the family members do some group activity together, they also raise their interest in doing the workout too. Parents also can set some regular schedule to do some exercises together such as aerobics, swimming, jogging, etc. 

  • Set Workout Schedule in Spare Time

Is working out at home too basic? Moms, you can set schedule for your spare time or even a holiday to work out together with your family. You can choose some nice places to do that maybe at the higher ground like hills or valley while you can enjoy to take a walk with your kids there. You also can ask them cycling together nearby the area. It may bring a new and joyful experience for them. 

So, that’s all the tips how to turn workouts into your regular activity. Remember, consistency and commitment are needed to do the exercises every day. 

 

Beware of the Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury

Hi Panda Besties!

How are you? May we always be in the best condition so we can always learn and play with your friends well at school. 

Me, Panda, wants to give you some latest updates about Panda Besties health information. Please do share this article to Moms and Dads so they can get the latest information about pediatric acute kidney disease and prevent you from this disease away.

Based on the news that is stated on Kompas.com on October 18th 2022, Indonesia is one of the countries that faced with pediatric acute kidney disease. Quoted from Ikatan Dokter Anak Indonesia, at least 180 children in 6 months until 18 years old range in 20 provinces had suffered with this disease in 2022.

This pediatric acute kidney injury has been detected in the early of 2020, but the peak time of this disease happened on August until September 2022. 

What is the cause of this disease?

Based on Ikatan Dokter Anak Indonesia (IDAI), the cause of this disease is congenital kidney disorder. In the other hand, the latest pediatric kidney injury is not related with congenital kidney disorder and still under investigation what is the main cause of this disease.

Another notion the causes of this disease are adenovirus infection, leptospirosis and the after effect of cold medicine which contain diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol which is related with the same case in Gambia, Africa. 

Moms and Dads please stay calm in this pediatric acute kidney injury epidemic. Panda will give you some information about the early symptoms of this disease so you can be alert and prevent it earlier.

  • Fever and Lower Urine Volume; 
  • Darker or Browning Urine Color; 
  • Not Urinating in 6-8 hours Duration;
  • Indigestion: Severe Nausea and Diarrhea;
  • Seizure;
  • Respiratory Disorder: Coughing, Cold and Breath Shortness; and
  • Decreased Consciousness.

When your child has suffered from the following symptoms, please bring your child to the hospital immediately. It can be detected by doing physical examination, blood and urine test. 

These are the tips to keep your kids stay healthy and away from pediatric acute kidney disease!

  • Maintain Your Kids Healthy Dietary Habit;
  • Take Vitamins in Appropriate Amount;
  • Take Medicine According to Doctor’s Prescription;
  • Avoid Syrup Form of Medicine.

 

Don’t forget to bring Hello Panda, the yummiest and most favorite biscuit of Panda Besties! Yummy food in a clean and hygiene packaging, crunchy outside and creamy inside.

Panda Besties, let’s stay fit and maintain a healthy lifestyle every day!  

 

The Best Way to Stay Healthy without Kids Paracetamol

Have you heard the motto that say “Health is number one”?

Yes! Everyone wants to stay away from health problems and stay fit. If we are not in a good condition, our ability will reduce in doing some daily activities, one of them is playing with your friends. You don’t want it, right?

Your moms and dads also don’t want you to get sick, Panda Besties!

In uncertain climate condition, our body has to adapt well to stay fit so we are away from all of the diseases. 

Please do share this article to your Moms and Dads so you can keep healthy while reducing the paracetamol consumption!

Do you know that it is better to prevent than treat the illness? We all know that the medication bills, time and effort in preventing some disease and stay healthy are way lower than being sick. Even Ikatan Dokter Anak Indonesia (IDAI) encourages us to maintain a healthy lifestyle for kids.

Parents usually feed their kids paracetamol when their body temperature are raising. What is paracetamol?

Paracetamol is one of the medicines that may reduce fever and pain, even toothache. Paracetamol or acetaminophen is served in various form such as tablet, syrup, drop, suppository and infusion. It works well in reducing kids’ fever. But it still better to prevent the illness.

Because of the changing climate condition and situation, kids can get sick like sore throat, cough, flu, cold even fever easily. When it comes to fever, paracetamol usually is the answer. In the other hand, doctor say that it is better to prevent than treat the fever with paracetamol.

These are some ways to prevent your kids from fever and stay fit in this changing climate condition:

  • Rest Sufficiently

Please make sure that your kids have enough rest time and not sleeping late at night. Having sufficient rest time to help them grow well and improve their immunity system. 

 

  • Do Workout and Physical Activity Regularly

One way to keep your kids healthy is to do some workouts and physical activity regularly, so it will activate your kids’ muscle and boost their immunity system to make their body stay fit. By doing workouts, it will help them to get better body posture and improve their balance and coordination. 

 

  • Picky on Your Snacks 

Moms and Dads, you must be picky on giving you kids snacks. Hello Panda, the yummiest cream and filling biscuit that accompany you and your kids in your daily activities.

So, are you ready to stay active and dynamic every time? Let’s do the following tips, besties!  

 

Starting Healthy Lifestyle with Family Workout

Panda Besties, have you exercised with your family together?
If you have, which workout that you and your family done?
Me, Panda, I prefer cycling.

Whatever the exercises we do, the snack must be Hello Panda! Panda Besties and family most favourite biscuit that filled with various flavours: Chocolate, Strawberry, Milk Vanilla, Cheese Cream and Cookies & Cream.

Don’t forget to share this information to Moms and Dads so you can do some workouts together!

Workout is a very interesting activity that can be done by you and your family to gain a healthy lifestyle. By doing some workouts, your body will be more fit, stronger and healthy. Moreover, you and your family will improve the bond among the family members too by doing workouts together, interesting isn’t it?

However, among all of the workouts and exercises, Moms, you also can choose which one of them that can be done with your little one in a safe and fun manner.

For your little one, the benefits of exercising are training the muscle and body balance, keeping their focus and also supporting child growth and development. Therefore, it is best to introduce the importance of improving their motor skills especially with exercising and doing some workouts.

These are some workouts recommendations to be done together with your kids and family:

1. Jogging and Walking
This basic activity can be done wherever, whenever. Moms, you can bring your kids to jog and walk in the morning, when the air so clear and fresh, at your cluster or park nearby.

2. Jumping
Beside walking and jogging, you also can do some basic jumping activity with your kids at home. By jumping, your little one can improve their muscle and joint strength. For example, you can ask your kids to grab some stuffs that placed in higher position than their height. This exercise will make your kids jump to grab them.

3. Swimming or Other Water Sports
Most of the kids love to play some water, and if your little one is one of them, Moms and Dads can bring your kids to swim from their early age. In the other hand, home workouts and swimming also can improve their breathing, stamina and muscle performance. You don’t have to swim in a proper and big swimming pool, you can fill a rubber kids pool and let the swim there, Moms.

4. Cycling
Some benefits of cycling are enhancing your feet strength and body balance, also keep your heart and body to stay fit. Cycling also can boost your metabolism and stabilize your body weight too, Moms. Let’s do some cycling at home with your kids!

 

5. Aerobics
Moms, you can be the ‘role model’ for your kids by doing aerobics. Aerobics contain with some activities including jumping to improve their flexibility and focus ability. Please do prepare some extra spaces so your kids can move freely.
So, are you and your family ready to have a healthy lifestyle? Let’s workout together with your family!

The Importance of Healthy Lifestyle for Your Kids

Besties, do you know, having a healthy lifestyle is very important as doing good deeds in your life?

You can stay away from all of the disease and can do everything you want if you are keeping up with healthy lifestyle every day. 

What is healthy lifestyle? How to start it? Let’s check this out and please share this information to your Moms and Dads, Panda Besties.

Healthy lifestyle is a lifestyle that affecting on someone health and life aspects. Not only about food, but also about the daily habit in exercising and live the day. Health is the most important thing that support you in every activity every day. By having healthy lifestyle, you can avoid some health problems too, for instance, bacterial and viral disease, that is why you should maintain a healthy lifestyle every day.

Lifestyle can be categorized as healthy from someone’s food, drink, nutrition consumption and workout habits. Basically, healthy lifestyle is very related with someone’s daily consumptions. We should picky about the food that we eat and avoid junk food such as fast food. It will have bad effects on your health in various time range. In a long term, it will bring you to obesity.

Beside healthy and nutritious meals, keeping your body fit, such as doing some regular exercises, of course, will help too. We must have commitment and be serious on doing this kind of lifestyle because there is no easy way to have a healthy lifestyle, it does have some steps to do. 

How to implement this healthy lifestyle for your kids? Let’s start with making sure your kids rest and sleep in a sufficient time every day, Moms and Dads. 

Kids healthy lifestyle is affected in duration and quality of their sleep. By sleeping and rest well, your kids can get some benefits such as:

    • Boost immune system;
    • Reduce the risk of health problems;
    • Spared of stress;
    • Increase Creativity; and
    • Improve Life Quality.

In the beginning of implementing a healthy lifestyle for your kids, Moms and Dads may face some obstacles, so please be patient in this long process while hoping it will last for a lifetime. Therefore, let’s ask your kids to have a proper and healthy lifestyle from now on!

For your information, these are the proper sleeping time for kids:

    • Infant (0-1 years old) -> sleeping time: 14-15 hours a day consists of 8 hours night sleep and 6-7 hours nap (day sleep).
    • Toddler (1-3 years old) -> sleeping time: 12-14 hours a day consists of 11 hours night sleep and 2-3 hours nap.
    • Preschool kids (4-6 years old) -> sleeping time: 11-13 hours consists of 10-11-night sleep and 2 hours nap.
    • School kids (7-12 years old) -> sleeping time: 10-11 hours a day consists of 8-9 hours night sleep and 2 hours nap.

Don’t forget to keep update the stock and consumption of our most favorite kids snacks Hello Panda, the yummiest biscuit! So, good luck!

Do These Productive Activities during School Holiday!

Who becomes happy when school holiday comes? During holiday, Panda’s friends can do various activities with family and friends besides school routines, such as school assignments and exams. During the school holiday, what have you done with your family and friends? 
Just like we are excited when we are on holiday, Hello Panda is always here for you and ready to make you happy with delicious filled biscuits all day long! Hello Panda is available in many variants, such as Chocolate, Strawberry, Milk Vanilla, Cookies & Cream, and the latest variant, Cream Cheese.
After preparing Hello Panda products, now it’s time to prepare yourself to stay productive! Here, Panda wants to give you some recommendations for fun activities that will make you stay productive and creative during school holiday.

Don’t forget to invite Mom & Dad to read this important informations and do the activities with you!
1. Start Learning to Draw
Drawing can help to increase motor development, self-confidence, creativity, emotional development and cognitive abilities. When learning to draw, Mom will help you to draw other objects such as beaches, animated animals, or another images that is easy for you to draw.

2. Play with Origami Paper
This activity can help you to understand shapes and sizes. With Origami paper, you and your mom can create various shapes, such as birds, frogs, planes, etc.

Besides being fun and exciting, playing with Origami paper can help you to train your thinking stills, accuracy, memory, imagination and also train you to follow instructions. Don’t forget to always invite Mom to accompany you when making crafts with Origami paper!

3. Camping with Family
Do you like playing outdoors?
You can invite your family to camp together in your yard. When preparing for camping, you and your family can help each other with setting up tents, putting up mats and preparing food. Camping will train you to work together, get to know the nature, face and solve problems, such as dealing with the wind coming through the tent window.

4. Gardening
Besides camping, for you who like outdoor activities, you can invite your family to do gardening! You can do it in your yard or around your house. While gardening, you can ask Mom and Dad many things about gardening such as plants and the importance of protecting environment. By gardening, it can help you develop your sensory skills.

5. Light Exercise
This activity if often missed when there are many daily activities and do not have many time. On holiday, it’s time for you and your family to take some time to do light exercise! This activity is not only able to maintain a healthy body, but also help brain development. As is known, sports can improve blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain which can make thinking smoother and easier for you to find interesting ideas.

So, are you ready to start these fun and productive activities? Choose your favorite activity and don’t forget to invite your family and friends to stay active, productive and more creative!

It’s Time to Go Back To School, Time to Prepare Yourself!

Hello Panda’s friends!
How was your holiday with your family? Hopefully this school holiday was useful and enjoyable! It’s great that Panda always accompanies you and your family in every occasions, also during this school holiday.

School holiday will be over and it means you and your friends will be going back to school soon. Sometimes, a long holiday makes us comfortable and enjoy with many exciting activities. But now, it’s time to bring the positive spirit when you’re going back to school!

At school, you will meet teachers and friends to learn and play together, isn’t it fun? Make back to school become a cheerful moment with Hello Panda! Don’t forget to remind Mom to always stock Hello Panda biscuits at home, so you and your family can enjoy it at home and also at school with friends.

Hello Panda is ready to be taken to school, now let’s prepare yourself to go back to school with these tips!

1. Prepare School Supplies
You can start with preparing your school supplies. Choose your school bag that you will bring to school, check your things, such as notebooks, textbooks, pencil boxes, stationery and hand sanitizers to maintain health protocols while at school.

2. Start with Your Daily Routine
During holiday, did you sleep late from your usual bedtime? If yes, now you can start a daily routine, for example waking up early and going bed on time, so that you’re ready to wake up early for school. You will used to wake up early and have a good sleep schedule so that your body condition remains healthy when you go back to school.

3. Start Making a Daily Schedule
How was your daily schedule during school holiday? Waking up, breakfast and then playing? It is certain that your daily schedule during school holiday is different from when you go back to school.

Panda recommends that you have to start making a daily schedule so that you can get used to your schedule before school holiday. Starting with time to do homework, wake up, breakfast, and go to school. Also, don’t forget to set time to rest so that you’re still excited for learning at school and at home.

So, are you ready to go back to school? You have to be excited to go back to school, meet old and new friends, and also teachers. Don’t forget to bring Hello Panda to school. It’s more fun when enjoying Hello Panda with friends!

Ready for a Family Vacation? Don’t Forget to Prepare This!

What do you think of, when you hear the word “Holiday?”
Panda thinks of doing variety activities, that Panda hasn’t had time to do during the weekday routine. During this time of school, you must be happy when the holiday period comes 

Even happier if Hello Panda is always there for you in every moment, including your family vacation. So don’t forget to prepare Hello Panda wherever and whenever you and your family are!

Holiday period is the best moment to enjoy with your loved ones. Usually, holidays are used as the perfect time to do various activities other than the daily routine that we do, especially when we learn at school.

Because the holiday period is a beautiful time for you and your family, so you need to maximize holiday preparations, starting with planning with your family to make the holiday more memorable and enjoyable. After planning, it’s time for you and your family to prepare various things before going on vacation. Here are some things that you need to prepare with your family, so that you and your family are ready to start an exciting and fun family vacation!

(1.) Choose safe and comfortable transportation
After deciding on a vacation destination, it’s time to choose the most comfortable and safe transportation for your family. Comfort will affect you and your family during vacation. For example, the distance between your house and the museum is less than 3 km, you and your family can use private vehicles or public vehicles provided by the government, such as bus, train, etc.

(2.) Provide medicines and favorite snacks
This one tip is also important, so don’t forget to bring your favorite snacks. This will be very useful for long trips. Always provide Hello Panda in your bag so you can eat it on the way  Other than snacks, don’t forget to provide medicines and remind this to Mom & Dad!

(3.) Capture the moment together
It’s important to taking pictures with your family to capture moments of happiness. Memorable things will be easily remembered when seeing it in physical form. You can save beautiful memories, if you captured them. Bring your phone/any other device that can be used to capture the moment!

(4.) Important Things to Bring.
Don’t forget to prepare things, such as clothes, sandals, or anything that you and your family need on the family vacation, especially when you travelling far and need to stay overnight.

Well, those are some things you and your family need to prepare for family vacation. So, How far have you prepared with your family? 

Here are things what Moms and Dads can do to improve Children’s creativity!

After knowing the importance of improving creativity for children start from an early age and the importance of the role of Moms & Dads in assisting your child in every process of growth including improving creativity, Panda wants to give some ideas of what Moms & Dads can do in order to improving children’s creativity.

Before starting, the first thing that Moms & Dads can do to make children always excited is to always provide their favorite flavor of Hello Panda! Which is their favorite flavor of Hello Panda?

Let’s begin! 

The presence of parents with the child in the early days is one of the things that is very much expected by the child. This is so important in order to developing the creativity of the child in upcoming days. It’s not only useful for the child, but a chance to educate children start from an early age can be a precious opportunity for Moms & Dads as parents and this precious opportunity could not come twice. This will happen if parents really following the child’s learning progress, development and growth as a whole. Learning and development process of a child can be felt as a unique opportunity, which is a process that gives great benefits for them.

In the childhood started from the age 0 – 5 years, children will be faced with psychological development, such as trust (trusting others), sense of independence and initiative. Don’t let the children facing this process alone, Moms & Dads have to always accompany the children and help them to direct them into positive things that can affect the process of educating them so from an early age they will be used to improve their creativity. Moms & Dads as parent should create a family environment that is great to learn for the children, start from an early age until they started to learn at school. This will happen if Moms & Dads as parents have good knowledge about children’s education in early childhood.

So, What efforts can Moms & Dads do as parents to improve children’s creativity? Here you go!

  1. Give Compliment to make them excited after they show Moms & Dads what they found. Everything that the children show you, don’t laugh at it, so it doesn’t make them sad and will always try to found new things.
  2. Give some space to experiment and conducive so that they can behave to the environment.
  3. Give some time and opportunity for the children to get involved in planning family activities. Their initiative should be respected in order to form a positive identity.
  4. Don’t disturb the children when they is enjoying and concentrating on the work that they’re doing, so Moms & Dads will not break their concentration affect the result of what they’re doing.
  5. Moms & Dads have to motivate the children so they will follow and doing their own ideas. Good and new ideas are often lost due to lack of self-confidence or lack of self-control

Keep in mind, when the children doing a creative efforts, it often affects the condition of the house, for example the children use it to experiment, such as drawing, Moms & Dads just need to direct them without scolding them, so they will not be sad ans still excited to be active and creative.

Keep up the enthusiasm, Moms & Dads to continue to play an active role in improving your children’s creativity 