Children in Krasnoyarsk

For 15 years, kindergarten No 317, in Krasnoyarsk, has been conducting a special health and strengthening program for children, which includes dousing with water, sauna and physical exercises. Children begin to pour water from the age of 3.

When it is -15 degrees Celsius outside, the children of the kindergarten go out naked and pour cold water on themselves!
Many outsiders criticize this method of "entertainment". But as educator Margarita Filimonova says, the practice of hardening is absolutely safe, since children who have undergone slow education and medical testing for three years are allowed to go outside.

Kindergarten staff insist that the practice makes children healthy and significantly improves their health. Kindergarten No 317 is the only institution of its kind in the region that uses this type of extreme exercises.

To prepare children for outdoor hardening, the staff first pours cold showers on the children indoors. The water temperature is gradually lowered, and only then the children are allowed outside. Dressed only in their underwear, they walk barefoot in the snowy yard and pour buckets of ice water on themselves. The procedure lasts only a few seconds, after which they go to a hot sauna. All this happens at 7:30 in the morning, before breakfast. Not all parents allow their children to take part in this hardening exercise, but 70% of children attending kindergarten No 317 love their morning ritual.

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