Wash your hands. Cover your sneeze and cough. Don’t pick your nose. Keep your hands to yourself.
这se are all typical things we’ve told our children to do at one time or another. During COVID-19, these reminders are even more important as we consider the health and safety of our children and families.
Schools，，，，青年运动组织和舞蹈工作室将采取许多预防措施，以期为疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）迈进。建议- 为了确保员工和孩子在亲自返回时安全。作为父母，您也可以尽力帮助您的孩子stay healthy并避免传播病毒。
如果您的孩子今年秋天要重返学校和/或运动，那么他们的安全可能是您的头脑。这里有四个技巧，可以帮助您的孩子在回到面对面的活动时在心理和身体上保持安全，敬业和健康。
Helping Your Child Be Healthy and Safe
1. Practice Mask Wearing
Cloth face coverings当身体距离很困难时，最重要的是要穿。根据您在该国的住所，一些学区和学校将全天需要面具，而另一些则不愿意。
- Talk to your child about when they’ll be wearing masks and when they’ll probably be able to take their masks off.
- Role model good mask wearing behavior. “Practice wearing masks around the house and have kids go to the grocery store with you to see other kids wearing masks,” suggested Wendy Pauker, a child life manager at Banner Children’s at横幅雷鸟医疗中心。“I can 100% guarantee that when they see other kids wearing masks, it will organically happen and become habit.”
- 向他们展示如何正确戴上面具（遮住嘴和鼻子），摘下面具（仅通过其领带或耳朵循环处理面具），然后将其放在哪里（放在特殊的“脏”袋中或直接放置在洗涤中）。
- Allow them to decorate their own masks—personalize and make them their own—and give them choices as to what type of mask they will wear each day. “We encourage parents and teachers to allow kids to decorate their masks,” Pauker said. “You can use 100% cotton fabric masks and fabric markers. Super heroes wear masks. Doctors and firemen wear masks. They can wear their own masks too. The kids will be proud to wear their masks and show off their artwork.”
2.鼓励适当的卫生
At school, on the field or in the gym or studio, your child’s teachers and coaches will have their own set of rules regarding proper handwashing and sanitizing throughout the day or practice. Teachers will be explaining to kids about germs and the purpose of wearing a mask andhandwashing帮助停止利差。
- 当孩子们是washing their hands在家里，让他们唱歌或计算20，以便他们知道要洗多长时间。
- Teach them when to wash hands: after using the bathroom, playing outside, coughing, sneezing or blowing their noses, before and after eating, when entering a school or an activity and when they get home.
- 消毒洗手液如果摄入，可能会很危险，因此请确保孩子（尤其是小孩子）仅在成人监督下使用它。教他们如何均匀，完全覆盖双手，以及如何在触摸其他任何东西之前让它干燥。
- Discuss why it’s important to keep their动手从他们的脸和面具。如果您有一个烦躁或焦虑的孩子，请与他们的老师一起寻找方法，以使他们的手在活动和学校期间忙碌而远离他们的脸。
- Practice coughing and sneezing in an elbow or inside a t-shirt if they are wearing one, so they don’t let droplets spread in the air.
- 提醒他们不要与其他同学或队友共享对象，玩具，食物或饮料。用自己的水瓶，铅笔，额外的口罩和齿轮将它们送往学校。
3.专注于情绪健康
“社会情绪健康常常会影响true physical health,” Pauker said. “If your child is back in the classroom, that in itself will bring back some sort of normalcy which will definitely help with emotional health. But regularly checking in on their mental health is important too."
这CDC已经表明儿童和青少年可能respond stronger与其他年龄组相比，大流行的压力。您的孩子一开始很难适应变化，或者可能会害怕回去。
- Check in regularly with your child to gauge how they are feeling.
- 如果他们有某些恐惧或焦虑，请诚实，耐心，并向他们保证每个人都有自己的健康和安全。
- Make time for play and other ways to enjoy themselves.
4.保持良好的检查和疫苗接种
不要让Covid-19停止您的child’s yearly well checks和疫苗接种。CDCrecommends那个孩子在大流行期间按照疫苗接种的态度。全国有一个大量下降孩子的访问和疫苗接种。这可能导致诊断和治疗的延迟，甚至更糟，从vaccine-preventable疾病。
- Don’t delay in-person well-child visits.
- Come prepared for your child’s visit with necessary forms, paperwork and any questions you might have regarding their health and wellbeing. This might even be a time to bring up any concerns your child might be having about COVID-19.
- 每天早上开始检查孩子的温度，询问他们是否有症状，例如喉咙痛，头痛或身体疼痛，咳嗽或肚子烦恼。如果他们表现出任何症状，则需要待在家里。
养成新的健康习惯的方法
您可能会担心自己的孩子在回到学校或参加运动时实际上练习这些新的卫生习惯，尤其是如果他们很少，但是您可能会惊喜地惊喜您的孩子适应这些新的健康习惯。
“儿童自然具有韧性，绝大多数人会迅速适应对手洗，社交距离和掩饰的期望。”蒂莫西·约翰逊，，，，MD, a pediatrician at Banner Health and clinical associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. “Even little ones will pick up these ‘new ways’ fast. Never underestimate a kid!”
To help your child build these new habits, try these techniques:
- Be a role model:继续在家里建模良好的卫生。
- 要乐观：Recognize and give positive reinforcement when you notice them following good hygiene practices.
- Be patient:实践使完美。一贯并在必要时轻轻提醒他们。
通过一些练习和爱心父母的帮助，您的孩子将适应他们的新习惯和例行程序。
有关与Covid-19有关的其他信息和育儿建议，请访问bannerhealth.com。
