Here are some health benefits that you can get with the presence of a baby in the middle of your life:
1. Lowering your blood pressure
A new study from Brigham Young University found that becoming a parent can help you lower your blood pressure. Researchers studied 200 couples who had been married to monitor blood pressure for 24 hours. The result, found that couples who have children, her blood pressure will be significantly lower than those without offspring.
2. Mental Health
According to a growing confidence in today's society, children often make parents become stressed due to their mischievous behavior. However, the results of research in the Mental Health Foundation, Taiwan, showed the presence of the child's parents will only make it look more mentally healthy. A new organization has interviewed 1084 randomly selected families, and found that the mental health of families with no children 6.4 points lower than those with children.
"The results show that people who have children are happier and have greater emotional satisfaction than those who do not have children," said Tom Yang, a researcher of the study.
3. Updating knowledge
Anyone with children can prove that the words are often spoken of a child is "why." Children are basically always have a great curiosity, such as, "Why do cats' eyes shine at night?" "Why smell so fresh after the rain, "and so forth.
As a parent, you should certainly be able to answer any questions posed little one with a reasonable answer. Indirectly, you have been directed to polish their knowledge with re-learn something.
4. Child as an excuse
Many single men who often complain that their friends who are married and have children is very difficult to be invited to hang out. This happens because most parents use their children as an excuse to shy away from social activities that are not desirable.
5. Improving self-esteem
Anyone who has a child will feel proud and satisfied when his son gave a positive speech, for example, "You are the best dad in the whole world". Remarks such as this will certainly have a profound effect on your self-esteem as a parent. This allows you to complete all forms of work, which according to your estimates were previously impossible, possible.
6. Happier
The parents have long assumed that an offspring will make them much happier. Recently, there is a study that supports the claim. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic found a direct correlation between the presence of children and the happiness of parents over the age of 40 years.
Researchers surveyed 200,000 people in 86 countries between 1981 and 2005 and found that at age 40, parents with 1-3 children feel a lot happier than couples with no children. Even when the age of 50 years, parents who have children will be happier than couples without children. This finding is not surprising. The reason, most parents will be easier to care for children when they grow up. source