Cn How to help your child overcome fatigue

For your children to stay healthy, you have to help them improve their daily lifestyle habits:

Between 3 and 12 years old, children are going to pick up habits that will stay with them until adulthood. So what type of good habits can you teach them so that they stay healthy?

• They need to have good sleeping habits with sufficient number of hours of sleep on a regular basis. Before 6 years old: more than 12 hours of sleep is needed, along with naps of 1 hour and a half to 2 hours. From 6 years old: between 9 hours and 10 hours of sleep per night. Children should go to bed early on school nights, and they should not get up too late over the weekends or over the holidays.
• Causes of stress should be limited and a balanced lifestyle between school activity and extracurricular activities should be fostered. Sports should be encouraged (at least one hour per day).
• Children should have a balanced and varied diet with 3 main meals and a snack per day. They should eat at least 5 portions of fruits and vegetables per day, eat fish twice a week –of which a fish with fatty acids– in order to gain essential nutrients such as vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B8, B9, B12, C, D3, E) and minerals (Zinc, Iron, Magnesium, Copper, Manganese, Molybdene, Selenium).

Sources: INSERM. "Rythmes de l’enfant – De l’horloge biologique aux rythmes scolaires [Childhood routines – From the biological clock to routines at school] T. Paris; 2001"; "Dossier d’information sur l’activité physique [Information dossier on physical activity]. Paris; 2013" ; PNNS (Programme National Nutrition Santé [National Health Nutrition Programme]) www.mangerbouger.fr

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