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You Can Help Your Child Do Better in School
Children's health greatly influences their development and their readiness to learn. If your children aren't feeling well, they will not do as well in school. Helping your children develop good health habits will go a long way in helping them to do better in school.
Steps to take to help your children develop good habits are:
- Give your children a nourishing breakfast.
- Numerous studies indicate children who eat breakfast are more alert and attentive than those who skip it.
- Many students come to the clinic with stomach aches around 9:00 a.m. because they are hungry.
- Be sure they get enough sleep.
- Adequate sleep improves a child's mood, concentration and energy.
- Prevent the spread of disease by appropriate cleanliness.
- Washing hands before eating and after the bathroom.
- Bathing or showering daily.
- Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water a day.
- This provides needed hydration.
- Water is second only to oxygen in importance to the body.
Children should be encouraged to tolerate minor complaints in the classroom, such as nasal congestion, minor headaches, stomach aches, sore throats. Encourage them to care for minor complaints themselves by drinking adequate water, going to the bathroom, and relaxing by taking deep slow breaths for a couple of minutes.
Children who practice healthy habits and learn to take care of themselves whenever possible will ultimately develop and maintain a sense of well being.
What is a School Nurse?
A school nurse is like an encyclopedia in a school. Most students find it informative and full of useful material. Some students refer to it daily, weekly or several times during the school year. Most students know where it is kept and its availability. Other students have difficulty locating it. A few students prefer not to use except in an emergency, then they learn to treasure it. Some of the school faculty seem proud to have this book in their collection and refer to it often, while others consider it just another book. Some faculty members appreciate this great book, but others do not. This book is handled carelessly by most of the people and it has no place of its own on the bookshelf, like the other books. It is shifted around and may be found in the most inconspicuous places in a school. In an emergency, the cry goes out over the public address system so everyone can locate the valuable book. This encyclopedia may be found anywhere in that large school --comforting someone in the yard, hallway, restroom, boiler room, on the stairs, in a classroom, in the teacher's lounge, cafeteria, gym or even in a corner behind a door with it's pages torn and cover bent.
-Author Unknown
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