A single child falling sick in a homeschooling family can throw the whole schedule out of kilter. The trip to the doctor with the sick child and subsequent care for him will ensure that the efficiency of your homeschool classroom drops drastically. This means that keeping your set of homeschool students in good health should be a major priority for you. Here are some simple ways that you can tweak your daily routine to ensure that all of your students, and you, stay healthy.
The Healthy Diet
Yes, the food you eat plays a major role in maintaining good health. We do not give our children junk food, but are we ensuring that they eat healthy? Have you studied the fact that each child requires a different amount of calories at different age levels? Or that the daily requirements of vitamins and minerals also varies with age? General guidelines to a healthy diet would include eating more fresh fruits and vegetables as opposed to processed foods. Also adding plenty of nuts and whole grains helps. As does cutting down on sugars and starches. Specific dietary requirements for children with allergies will have to be taken into consideration as you move to eating more wholesome meals.
The Regular Exercise Routine
No, there is no getting away from the exercise. You can simply not stay healthy if you do not give your body at least fifteen minutes of concentrated exercise every day. The good news is that as a homeschooling family you can choose an activity that helps you all exercise together. Plus you can pick more than one activity from a wide selection such as walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, yoga, tennis, basketball, and more. The idea is to ensure that everyone gets a mini workout every day. The important part to remember is that the exercise may differ each day, but the body needs to be exercised in a healthy manner each day. Even on the weekends.
If this seems too much to ask given your busy schedule, just ask yourself how much more trouble you will be in if a single one of you falls ill!
