Nov 12, 2019
The British Heart Foundation – Kosta Pandos
The study revealed a dramatic drop in children’s physical activity levels by the time they finish primary school. Monitoring the behaviour of more than 2,000 children from 57 schools across South West England during primary school, it found children became 17 minutes less active per week every year. Children wore an accelerometer for five days, including two weekend days, which provided an accurate assessment of how many minutes per day the children participated in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) – enough to get them slightly out of breath and sweaty.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2019/november/new-study-finds-children-become-less-active-each-year-of-primary-school
Nov 11, 2019
Moms – Heather Djunga
It can break a mother’s heart when she hears her child has been bullied or walked over by a peer at school. Often, moms will be confused as to what has caused the problem and be unsure as to how to build and foster assertiveness in their child, to withstand this kind of attack.
https://www.moms.com/child-teach-assertive-ways-methods/
Nov 11, 2019
Moms – Bri Thomas
Life can get messy, and from wiping up crumbs and disinfecting bathrooms to deep cleaning rugs, windows and junk drawers, there are certainly lots of chores to do around the house. However, not everyone is always excited about pitching in when it comes to cleaning… So how can it be made fun?
https://www.moms.com/ways-make-chores-fun/
Nov 10, 2019
The Chicago Tribune – Staff Writer
Nearsightedness, or myopia, is a condition in which you can see objects that are near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry. Nearsightedness happens when the cornea — the clear front surface of your eye — is curved too much or when your eye is longer than normal. That causes light coming into your eye to be focused in front of the retina at the back of your eye instead of directly on the retina. The result is blurry vision.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/health-fitness/sns-many-children-develop-nearsightedness-elementary-school-20191023-6nxebvuowran5hfsv3axgufxa4-story.html
Nov 10, 2019
Moms – Jayme Kennedy
Most parents have dealt with some form of picking eating or food aversion at least once in their time as parents. But if you’ve never had to deal with a child who can’t eat certain foods because of food allergies, then you can consider yourself pretty lucky. Statistics show that approximately 1 out of every 13 kids has some sort of food allergy, and 40% of those kids have experienced severe and even life-threatening reactions. The scariest part is that the majority of children aren’t tested for food allergies as part of their normal wellness checkups (the testing can be difficult to handle). So for many parents, their first experience with their child’s food allergy is at the time of the first reaction. That’s why it’s so important to be able to recognize the symptoms of food allergies in kids, so if your child has a reaction, you can be prepared in the moment.
https://www.moms.com/what-are-symptoms-of-food-allergies-in-kids/
