How Do My Child's Lifestyle Choices Affect Their Education?

Many of the decisions children make, both consciously and unconsciously, can affect their education. For example, choosing to sleep later can affect their energy levels at school and ability to concentrate. Longer term this can lead to sleep deprivation. There’s also diet to think about. What children eat can affect how they behave in class, and their ability to retain information. If you’d like to learn more about the lifestyle choices that can hinder your child’s ability to learn and perform in class, take a look at the guidance below from a private school in London.

Teaching your child about healthy living

Little ones love to be independent. It makes them feel empowered especially when a decision is theirs to make. So why not kill two birds with one stone and incorporate this into teaching habits that are difficult for them to pick up? Healthy living is important and something children should be practicing from a very young age. Remember, teaching them the correct way to live doesn't need to be difficult. Small adjustments in your daily routine that are easy to manage can do just the job. Working together as a family can also be a great way to reinforce the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Below are some ideas that you can introduce to your child about healthy living. 

How to Encourage Your Child to Exercise

Keeping fit and healthy comes from exercising on a regular basis. If your child isn’t exercising that often, they can cause potential health risks in the future like weight gain or muscle loss. To help keep your child motivated to exercise each week, here are some tips from this boarding school in Dublin.

Oral health for the whole family

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Looking after our teeth and mouth is often either a quick moment as part of our daily routines or an afterthought. Many people do not brush their teeth for long enough, neglect flossing, ignore symptoms of gum disease and hate visiting the dentist. But oral health is very important and it is wise to take care of your teeth, gums and whole mouth.

How to encourage kids to be active as lockdown eases

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2020 the year we stayed home, stayed safe

This year has been difficult and strange. 2020 is already a very memorable year, the year that we went into lockdown. Covid-19 has changed our normal daily lives and even as we ease out of lockdown life is not as we know it, we are now facing a ‘new normal’.

How to help children overcome a fear of the dentist

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Many children have a fear of the dentist’s chair, which might be due to a painful memory, or simply a fear of needles. Indeed, it is not uncommon to find adults that are also afraid of visiting the dentist. If your child dreads dental check-up appointment, here are a few tips to remove the anxiety and help the child to actually enjoy the experience.

Alder Hey Children’s Charity

Alder Hey Children’s Charity Ambassadors are children from all walks of life, who have been treated at Alder Hey or are a relative of a patient who has undergone treatment at our children’s hospital. Childhood should be filled with happiness, laughter and fun but when a child becomes ill, children often have to be brave and grow up quickly in order to deal with the difficult time in their life. At Alder Hey Children’s Charity we want to support all of the children who come through our doors. Everything we do is with our amazing Alder Hey patients and their families in mind.

Tiny Tickers BBC Lifeline Appeal

Airing Sunday 21st May 2017, 4pm on BBC 1 & Wednesday 24th May 2017, 1pm on BBC 2

Every two hours a baby is born in the UK with a serious heart condition. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the biggest killer of babies in the UK, causing one in every 13 infant deaths. Early detection of heart defects means babies will get the treatment they need from the first opportunity – which can save lives, improve post-surgery survival rates and lead to a better long-term quality of life.

Tiny Tickers is the only national charity with a focus on improving the early detection, diagnosis and care of babies with heart conditions. Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect and it is Tiny Tickers’ ambition that no baby should ever die with an undetected heart defect.

Protecting your baby’s heart

Many of us associate the 20-week scan with either finding out whether we are having a boy or girl, or getting a new scan picture. But it’s also the most in-depth health check a baby will have during pregnancy. And it’s the very best opportunity to spot defects before birth.

Think 20. Think heart. is a new campaign that helps expectant and new parents to protect their baby’s heart – starting with the 20- week pregnancy scan.

The majority of babies are born with a healthy heart. However, unbeknown to most of us, heart defects are the most common birth defects in babies. They are also one of the least talked about.