And now here is the question. Shouldn’t all children naturally have good mental health habits? Sadly, it doesn’t seem that way. Like many parents, live constantly with stress consider ways to actively minimise it, like getting regular exercise, a lot of sleep and doing relaxation, I’d say if you. Not only will this improve your mental health, and make you easier to live with, it will send a strong positive message that mental health is important. Nonetheless, many children and just about all teenagers are sleep deprived at the moment.
While teenagers need a minimum of 9 hours, children need between 10 and 12 hours sleep to enable proper growth and development.
Many parents are sleepdeprived as well!
Sleep is the amongst the building blocks of mental health and wellbeing. Kids today get less exercise than those of past generations, that is an impediment to mental health. She didn’t know she was promoting good mental health, when my mum will tell me all those years ago to turn the television off and go outside and play. Hour’s movement per day seems the minimum for kids. Fact, exercise stimulates the chemicals that improve mood and release the stress that builds up over a day. Nonetheless, she just knew that physical activity wasa good thing for an active growing boy. Writers and similar creatives learn the concept of flow.
Kids should practice creativity if for no other reason than it helps them experience the state of ‘flow’. It’s the state of getting so immersed in an activity that you forget about time and place. Let him know that his concerns are important to you, So if your child has a poser. Talking about what’s worrying you is a great way to remove the burden of worry and reduce anxiousness. While others will catastrophise a situation, that can make matters seem worse. These ideas are basic wisdom. As kids’ lives get busier these essentials get squeezed out.
See these habits as the building blocks of mental health. Make sure you do not ignore or trivialise them.