Ten amazing habits that harm your child’s health TOO LITTLE SUNSHINE We are lucky to live in the tropics but few children spend sufficient time outside in the sun yet this is crucial for helping the body make vitamin D which is needed for healthy bones. (Vitamin D and calcium go hand-in-hand in building strong bones). Lack of vitamin D/calcium leads to bone deformities in children (including bow legs, abnormal chest and skull shape) and causes them to fracture/break easily. Exposure to sunshine should start in infancy and continue throughout life. TOO LITTLE EXERCISE Our academic programme has a very broad syllabus and is very competitive. Most children above the age of 10 spend most of their time studying – with very little time set aside for play and extra- curricular activities. When most urban children are not studying, they spend a lot of their time watching television or on the computer. This sedentary lifestyle not only sets them up for obesity, it also is unhealthy for their bones which need exercise in order to become stronger. Weak bones in children as pointed out earlier can lead to easy breakage and deformity. BAD PARENTAL HABITS Children pick up most of their lifelong habits from the adults they interact with daily. For this reason, it is inevitable that some of the bad habits children have, they get from their parents. Most of these can, however, be avoided if we just took time to keep our words/actions in check. TOO MUCH TV/COMPUTER Children in urban areas watch too much television compared to their rural counterparts. The television is often a ‘baby sitter’ for the child. It becomes a crucial part of their lives and most would rather watch television than go out and play. As the child grows older, computers are incorporated into their lives. Although both television and computers are great innovations, if utilised in excess they not only promote a sedentary lifestyle but can also give eye problems (usually eye strain. In fact, excess computer usage has been known to give a complex set of eye problems known as ‘computer vision syndrome’). More Below http:///1KTGCx2

"Most children above the age of 10 spend most of their time studying – with very little time set aside for play and extra- curricular activities." You mean they spend most of their time in school,not that they spend it studying.apart from home-work,which child will you see just reading for the sake of reading?very rare
And some parents think giving their kids Jss 3 and below a smart phone or pad or laptop will make them smarter,no it wont,reverse is the case,they develop rapport with it as an entertaining object,not as an object for productivity,and this draws their mind away from their primary assignment,studying.
Even when with books,their minds are on the object of entertainment