Health x Wellness
Discover the Three Essential Pillars of Childcare for Your Child’s Optimal Development
Morinaga Milk, a leading brand under Kalbe Nutritionals, has unveiled its latest campaign focusing on the three key pillars of childcare: Potential-Attention-Nutrition.
This campaign aims to help 21st-century parents navigate the challenges of raising children amid rapid technological advancements and societal changes.
The Three Key Pillars
- Potential: Recognising and optimising a child’s innate abilities, such as learning modalities and multiple intelligences, to provide appropriate stimulation.
- Attention: Implementing caregiving patterns that allow children to grow healthily and holistically.
- Nutrition: Meeting the right nutritional needs to support physical health and cognitive development.
Importance of Early Implementation
Dr. Bernie Endyarni Medise, Sp.A(K), MPH, a specialist in child growth and development, emphasises the importance of implementing these pillars from the first 1000 days of life, often referred to as the golden period of growth. This period is crucial for brain and bodily organ development, with approximately 86 percent of the brain’s neurons being formed.
This period sets the blueprint for a child’s growth, development, and behavior, affecting whether they will reach their full potential.
Dr. Bernie Endyarni Medise, Sp.A(K), MPH
Role of Nutrition
Nutrition plays a critical role during this period and should be balanced between carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals.
“Ideally, after the first year, 70 percent of a child’s nutritional needs should come from solid foods, while the remaining 30 percent can continue to be met through continued breastfeeding and/or formula feeding,” adds Dr. Bernie.
Proper nutrition and stimulation during this period are essential for brain development and future intelligence.
Choosing the Right Infant Milk
Choosing the right infant milk is critical to supporting brain intelligence, immunity, and optimal growth.
Parents can choose milk with high levels of AA and DHA, choline, and iron to support brain development; as well as alpha-lactalbumin that helps regulate sleep and produce growth hormone. Additionally, milk fortified with Triple Bifidus probiotics supports digestive health and immunity.
Dr. Muliaman Mansyur, Medical Head at Kalbe Nutritionals, highlights the importance of choosing the right infant milk to support brain intelligence, immunity, and optimal growth.
Morinaga ChilKid Platinum and ChilSchool Platinum
To support the implementation of the three key pillars, Kalbe Nutritionals offers Morinaga ChilKid Platinum and ChilSchool Platinum growth milks. These products contain superior ingredients that support brain development, double immunity, and optimal physical growth.
Balancing the three pillars of childcare—Potential-Attention-Nutrition—and utilizing them from early on are crucial to ensuring that children thrive and develop optimally.
Pictures credit to Morinaga Milk.
