7 Pillars of ensuring your child’s health

Ever wondered how you can ensure that you provide your kids with the healthiest upbringing humanly possible, wonder no more. For assured child health here are the main guidelines you need to follow:

1. Nutrition: Well, this is a no-brainer, the main back bone of having a healthy child is to ensure your child receives a balanced diet throughout his/her childhood. This starts with ensuring exclusive breast feeding at the child’s tender age to giving meals that compose of all nutrients when the kid is past breast feeding age.
2. Physical exercises: A fit kid is ideally a healthy kid. Physical exercises such as sports and games, workouts like (jogging, going for walks or even swimming) contribute greatly to a kid’s well-being health wise. Nutrition and physical kids fitness go hand in hand; when a kid receives only one health issues such as obesity are likely to arise.
3. Seasonal medical check-ups: For a kid to achieve the status of being healthy, periodical visit to the doctor is paramount, being examined occasionally helps your doctor to monitor your kid’s well-being and even be able to advise you on better practices to achieve the ultimate goal of having an healthy family.
4. Mental well-being: Health entails having the right state of mind; kids can achieve mental health through conditioning such as ensuring enough sleep, relaxing after demanding tasks or even feeling loved and appreciated. One key requirement of ensuring mental health is being very attentive to your kid’s behavior and also speaking to them to find out if they have any stressing issues.
5. Vaccination: Am sure you have heard of the saying “prevention is better than cure” well, why risk your child’s life? It is important to ensure that your kid has received all the relevant vaccines, in fact it’s better to have your child is vaccinated for more diseases than the conventionally required, better sure than sorry, right?
6. General discipline: A disciplined child is more likely to be less exposed to diseases; take for example a child that is told not to play in dirty water and does not obey compared to one that is given the same instruction and obeys. It does not require a rocket scientist to know which child is more likely to be visiting the doctor soon. For your kid to remain healthy, nurture their general discipline.
7. Protection against harsh environments: A kid who is exposed to harsh conditions such as cold is more likely to suffer from chest related complications than one who is protected from these harsh conditions. Biology tells us that our body organs are more vulnerable when we are young, therefore take the initiative and protect your kid’s body from conditions which may result to illnesses be it be through dressing them according to the current weather conditions to giving them supplements to help them adapt.

All in all health is wealth and kids are blessings, so invest in your kid’s health.