Structured school days can keep kids healthy. How can we maintain it over school holidays?
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2022
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Watson, A.
Maher, C.
Olds, T.
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Every parent knows kids spend their time differently when they’re on holidays. Our new research found out just how differently.During the school term, kids get up around 7am, get into their uniforms, make their way to school, eat food from their lunchboxes or canteens, play at recess and lunch, have PE lessons, sit and get bored or excited in class, and then head home.
Their day is highly structured. However during school holidays, all this goes out the window. Our new research shows in the summer holidays, kids are getting less physical activity, more screentime, and eating more junk food and less fruit than they do during term time. So what can families do to counter this?
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Copyright 2022 the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)