Healthy Habits and Safety
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Healthy Habits at Home and School
The following suggestions might be helpful in aiding your child to establish good health habits:
• Encourage outdoor exercise.
• Stress the use of tissue when coughing or sneezing.
• Supervise your child’s choice of movies, videos, T.V. programs, and Internet usage.
• Avoid over-excitement, especially at bedtime.
• Each day you keep your child home from school, please call the school.
• When the child returns to school, send a note repeating the reason for the absence and give any additional information which you feel would be helpful to the teacher or nurse.
Clothing
When purchasing clothing, parents should take care to secure apparel with simple fastenings so that the child is able to clothe themself with very little help. Boots should be large enough so that they can manage them. Clothing and shoes should be comfortable and practical.
Labeling
All outside apparel such as coats, hats, caps, sweaters, boots, and mittens should be plainly marked with the child’s name.
Money
When sending money to school, place it in an envelope and write the child’s (and teacher’s) name on the outside.
Safety Patterns
Safety While Walking
• Walk on the sidewalk or the left side of a road facing automobiles.
• Look carefully—left then right—before crossing a street.
• Cross only at intersections and never from between parked cars. During school hours cross where crossing guards or patrols are stationed.
• Learn about and observe traffic signals.
Safety While Riding
• Remain in seat and be quiet when riding.
• Be careful boarding or leaving bus or auto.
• Remember to buckle your safety belt.
• Do not lean on door handles.
• Refuse to ride with strangers.
Safety At Play
• Know own name, address, and phone number.
• Tie shoe strings, buckle boots, and zip zippers.
• Avoid throwing hard objects such as stones.
• Play in yards or playgrounds—not in the streets.
• Take turns on slides and swings.
• Avoid running and pushing on stairs and in crowds.
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