Health and Fitness ? Starting School And Staying Healthy ? Health ...

Bed Time Schedule: In the summertime everyone tends to stay up late, and sleep in. When changing that routine for back to school schedule, start the week before to minimize the crashing effect. Your body, your kids, and your immune system will thank you for it. It?s not just the kids who need this routine, but parents as well, just to keep a balance and not feel so whipped by the first week. Establishing a bedtime routine that works for everyone is so helpful. Turning off TV?s, computers, and games an hour before bed really slows down all the stimulus or stimulation that everyone gets throughout the day. Bath-time, brushing teeth, and reading a story before bed, or whatever helps your child relax, will make it easier for them to fall asleep and stay asleep during the night.

Night Terrors: Many kids start having night terrors in response to stressful changes. Whether it?s a new year of school, new house, or just change of events, this can bring on night terrors. Night terrors are when a child goes to bed, but then wakes up a few hours later, and starts screaming and crying for no apparent reason. They aren?t really awake and don?t really know what?s happening. Different from nightmares as this is a reoccurring event that tends to happen at the same time every evening. There are many theories about them, but what I found worked was to wake the child up an hour before he/she would wake from a night terror. If your child is waking up at 11:00pm, wake them up at 10pm. Then get the child to use the bathroom, and have a drink of water. This might take a couple of days before it kicks in, but interrupting their sleep pattern, and giving them H2O, really does the trick. If that doesn?t work, I would highly recommend trying a homeopathic approach. Working with herbal remedies can lead to some excellent results as well.

Foods to Encourage: An apple a day. Wow, that one still holds true. Apples are great antioxidants for your child?s digestive system, and absorb and remove all sorts of trash from your body, helping you fight off incoming illnesses.

I?m a big fan of grapefruit as it has an amazing amount of nutrients in it, and the vitamin C power from just 1/2 cup of grapefruit juice is profound. Most kids don?t love it, so maybe you can sneak a little in their morning O. J. Light meats (chicken or fish), and easy digestible foods, during this first couple of weeks of school will help with moods, and be less work for your child?s digestive system. Young children do not have fully developed digestive systems until the age of 8 years old, and need their diets to fit their development. A bland diet with foods like oatmeal, rice, toast, eggs, bananas, apples, berries, cooked vegetables, or chicken broth will be easy on their digestive system. If you have a preschooler/kindergartener, ask your child?s teacher if you can bring their own bottled water for the first week, while they adjust to the new environment at school.

Foods to Discourage: Are Juices really different from one another? Absolutely, juices from concentrate are normally just juice, but if you read the labels of some juices out there, they can be loaded with sugar, and caffeine, two ingredients that kids really don?t need. Chocolate drinks often have lots of sugar and caffeine added, hot cocoa before bed could be a set up for a long night. Try taking a break from the sugar cereals, and maybe have some eggs and toast with a little fruit for breakfast for a little while. I know those breakfast cereals are easy, but a taxed and tired system is going to need all the support it can get, and quite frankly Frosted Flakes and Pop Tarts just aren?t that nutritionally supportive. During the first couple of weeks of school, you could save yourself some grief by bumping up your nutritional standards. If you notice your child is more congested (always running a nose), go a little easy on dairy (milk, ice cream, yogurt, cheese) during the first couple of weeks of school. Dairy can be hard on a little persons digestive system.

Hydration: Adequate hydration during the first week of school is a must. Without water, your cells die, just a plain fact. Children are an even higher percentage of water and need to be encouraged a little to remember to drink fluids. When you are dehydrated, you might feel tired, and grumpy, because you aren?t getting enough oxygen to your cells. This means that your blood cells can?t do their job, and give you energy. Caffeinated and sugar beverages will actually dehydrate you. Bottled or filtered water, milk, diluted juices, or light herbal teas can keep your child well hydrated.

Playing in The Sun: Boom! The kids are back in school for 6-7 hours a day. Now, you?ve just cut the amount of time they are spending in the sun in half. Vitamin D production is about to take a big loss. Sunlight is critical in the production of Vitamin D, which is so necessary in supporting a healthy immune system. Get your kids outside after school, if even just for an hour of sunlight. Going for a walk, swimming, or a trip to the local park will give them just enough sun light to ease them into the change of seasons.

Heading into fall and winter seasons, kids need a little extra support to help them adjust to all the changes. Now is also a good time to change filters on your furnace and refrigerators.

Clea Westphal, LPN is a mom, nurse, wife, adventurer, writer, waitress, baby day care director..to name a few..through the years I?ve learned a few tricks I?d like to share with today?s parents, things I don?t seem to find in Parents Magazine. Hence, the article. I do hope you?ll visit my blog and there?s a copy of a free PDF, Zodiac Zoo which is a children?s book about Chinese astrology.?http://babyboulder.com/?Hope you are happy and healthy. Clea

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