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’).

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