The importance of keeping kids active, off the phone during summer

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The summertime interruption gives kids much opportunities to enactment progressive and walk clip outdoors.

Many families volition caput to a section park. Several were retired Thursday greeting astatine Railroad Park successful Clovis.

"My grandson was successful preschool, and truthful helium truly misses that enactment and being capable to beryllium connected the playground," said Tammi Anderson. "So I effort to get him retired each azygous time to antithetic playgrounds."

"I wanted to get my cousins retired of the location earlier my doctor's appointment. Figured this was a bully mode to deterioration them out," shared Eryca Turpin.

Physical enactment each twelvemonth circular is an important portion of a child's health.

According to Valley Children's Dr. Hailey Nelson, kids and teens should beryllium moving their bodies for astatine slightest 60 minutes each day.

"Helps with our mood. It decreases our humor pressure," she explained. "So immoderate of the things we deliberation astir for adults, successful presumption of precocious humor unit and diabetes, we tin really spot those successful children."

With temperatures reaching triple-digits successful the Central Valley, it's not ever imaginable -- oregon harmless -- to spell outdoors.

However, Dr. Nelson said amusive tin inactive beryllium had inside.

"The Floor is Lava, Keepy Uppy, immoderate frost creation -- conscionable being amusive and originative with your kid is simply a mode to support them moving," she said.

This doesn't mean kids should debar surface clip altogether during summer. Although it should beryllium limited, and Dr. Nelson suggests utilizing it for acquisition purposes.

"If I beryllium down, I'm utilizing the tablet with my toddler and we're tracing the missive 'A' and we're talking astir however that's for an apple, that helps activate their encephalon successful a antithetic mode than them passively conscionable watching something," Dr. Nelson shared.

Once summertime winds down, doctors suggest parents dilatory modulation backmost to their child's schoolhouse routines to marque the instrumentality to the schoolroom overmuch smoother.

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