Parents, it’s time to cool.
A practicing pediatric nurse becomes viral to say -the mothers and fathers who pump the brakes in ballet, football, piano and kumon, because their children go to the total burning before they even reach the first degree.
Mary Catherine, Aka @the.mom.np on Instagram, is fed up that families become full -time services, moving children from one extracurricular to the other with a zero inactivity time in the middle.
“This could ruin some feathers, but it is a hill that I will die as a pediatric nurse and mother for young children … I strongly believe that we begin our children in sports/ activities organized too soon,” he wrote in a recent publication.
“My daughter is in kindergarten and most of her classmates participate in 2-3 extra-curricular activities/ sports. That’s a lot.”
Your recipe? Pull your programs full of jam and give children more time to be children.
“Free play still has to be prioritized in the primary age and younger children. This is crucial,” he continued.
Catherine swears the rule of “one activity at a time” at home for her two young children, and experts say she’s in something.
“In my clinical experience, I have seen children, especially those of the first elementary years, who are constantly scheduled often with signs of chronic distress,” Zishan Khan, MD, a psychiatric clinic, supported her, saying her parents in a recent interview.
Think: anxiety, sleeping problems, mysterious stomachs and sufficient days to rival the flu season.
“The brain and body in development need time to process, grow and recover -,” added Khan.
Catherine emphasized the importance of letting children participate in a free game: the imaginative and non -filtered type that does not require uniforms, punctuation boards or slippers of permit.
Khan coincided, calling the free “critical” play for child development.
“Through play, children learn to regulate their emotions, to collaborate with others and to develop a healthy sense of themselves,” he said.
And, although many parents could already try to thin -in more free time for their children, they still feel that it is not enough.
As reported earlier, the average child already accumulates 10 hours of play daily, divided between parents, time alone and playing with friends or brothers, but three quarters of parents say they still want their child to have more time for a creative and non -structured game.
Overwhelming 92% of parents believe that this type of game is key to the growth and development of their child, and they are not mistaken.
Higher play activities? Physical games like Dancing and Ball Tossing won, followed by social play, which involves sharing and working as a team.
And, although the time of the screen is still part of the equation: children are made about two hours a day on devices, most parents agree: the game off the screen is crucial.
Parents are also doing their part to keep curiosity alive.
The same survey found that they answer an average of 14 questions a day of their sized philosophers, and many even study to stay up to date.
In the end, experts and data agree: when it comes to childhood, the game is not a luxury, it is essential.
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