Welcome back from spring break! I hope you and your family had fun and got rested and rejuvenated. We are in the “home stretch” and have less than 2 months of school left (what???). No worries, there is still time to support your student with healthy habits so they can finish up the semester with good health AND good grades. It always helps to ground ourselves in the “pillars” of optimal health”:
- Sleep
- 8-10 hours of quality sleep
- TIP: keep digital devices out of bedroom or at least away from bed
- Nutrition
- FIBER: include AS MANY whole foods high in fiber as possible
- TIP: Instead of processed foods, look for health alternative choices
- Physical Activity
- Encourage your student to get at least 30 minutes of physical activity at least 5 days per week
- TIP: Go on walks together
- Avoid smoking, alcohol and substance use
- Talk to your students about strategies to avoid
- TIP: Model healthy behavior
- Stress Management
- Find something fun away from the “work” of being productive
- TIP: Try a new “shared” experience like doing a craft together, pulling out a board game, or having a “joke-sharing break”
- Social Connection
- Family dinner (or some regular time where your household members gather, ideally to eat together)
- TIP: Even silent time together can foster connection (personal share: when my kids were teens, I’d “drag” them out for a walk. Sometimes they’d talk and sometimes not. But we were spending time together and I was there if they needed me).
My office hours are:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and some* Thursdays
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 8am – 3:50pm
Wednesdays: 7:30am – 3:20pm
Dvora Citron, RN, MS
dcitron@auhsdschools.org, 925-280-2970 x7128
IG: acalanesschoolnurse, School Nurse Website
