Tips From the School Nurse: Healthy Bodies for Kids
Everybody knows that health is very important. With a healthy body, you can enjoy fun activities like cycling, swimming, baseball, hiking, and so on. How do you make sure that you can be healthy and happy? Well, you have come to the right place! Here, we will discuss some interesting facts about health and showcase a world of resources for you to discover lots of fun facts about health.
One important thing to do to keep your body healthy is to be hygienic. Since we use our hands to eat a variety of foods and snacks, we must remember to stay clean. Healthy bodies also require nutrition like essential vitamins and minerals. To keep your body fit and strong, you need to exercise regularly. Take the dog out for a walk, go play a game of tennis or shoot some hoops with your friends.
Staying healthy requires effort and courage. When somebody offers you alcohol or drugs, be courageous to say “NO”. Many people struggle with peer pressure from friends, but you must understand that it’s your body and nobody has the right to tell you what to consume. Alcohol and drugs can cause a lot of harm, especially to a child’s body like yours. They can lead to many types of diseases and infections, and worse, they can cause people to act irrationally, and dangerously.
Do you know how to protect yourself when there’s a fire or when somebody tries to bully you? How about staying safe on the Internet? What should you do when a stranger tries to get too friendly? To protect yourself, you must learn about safety procedures when you are facing situations like emergencies, natural disasters, staying at home alone, and more. Another thing about staying healthy is to develop a positive attitude in life. When you are under pressure, it’s important to know how to relax and reduce the stress. After all, a healthy mind is as important as a healthy body.
Follow these links to discover more about health!
Our Bodies
- How the Body Works: Learn about how the teeth, eyes, cells, kidney, muscles, tongue, bladder, and other body parts work.
- Inside the Human Body Systems: Take a look at the Skeletal System, Respiratory System, Circulatory System, and Digestive System.
- The Virtual Body: Provides interactive lessons on various body parts.
- Puberty: Find out how your body and brain change during this strange time.
Hygiene and Keeping Clean
- Brushing Your Teeth: Here’s the right way to brush and care for your teeth.
- Soaper Hero: Take the quiz to find out how much you know about hand hygiene.
- Fight Germs: Find out how you can fight germs by washing your hands.
- Body Odor: Excellent tips to help teens to control their body odor.
- Adolescent Hygiene Basics: The PDF covers a lot of health topics like oily hair, body odor, hair breakage, dental hygiene, nutrition, and more.
Nutrition and Food
- Nutrition Explorations: Fun, exciting ways to discover the world of nutrition.
- MyPyramid: Games and activities for kids to learn about nutrition.
- Healthy Eating: Discover all the foods that can make you healthy and well.
- Food Group Fun: Truly fun way to learn about food groups.
- Food as Fuel: Print this PDF activity sheet and find out all about how food is fuel for our bodies.
Fitness and Exercise
Drugs and Alcohol
- Drugs & Alcohol: Doctor P. Body explains how drugs and alcohol can be dangerous for your body.
- D.A.R.E.: The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for kids.
- The Cool Spot: Offers a lot of information on alcohol and resisting peer pressure.
- Alcohol & the Brain: Find out how alcohol can affect your brain.
- Kids Against Tobacco Smoke: A cool site with games and activities to encourage kids to stop smoking.
Disease, Infection, and Injury
- Diabetes: A lot of information on the disease, especially for teens.
- What is Obesity?: Good place to learn about obesity and how to fight it.
- Chicken Pox: Find out about the symptoms, incubation period, treatment, and more.
- Pink Eye: Describes the causes, symptoms, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, and so on.
- Head Lice: Offers games, FAQs, animations, coloring book, books, and poetry on head lice.
- Safe Kids: Dedicated to prevention of injuries in children as well as other safety matters.
Safety
- KidSMART: Excellent place to learn about online safety.
- Stranger Safety: Go on some “Adventures with Scruff” to find out how to deal with strangers.
- Home Alone: A list of tips to help you prepare for the times you may be home alone.
- Fire Safety: Visit USFA for Kids to find out all about fire safety.
- Bicycle Safety: Learn about how you can stay safe while cycling.
- Kids Against Bullying: Awesome place for kids to fight against bullying.
Mental Health