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>> Welcome back for parents of
kids of all ages back-to-school season is the perfect time to
season is the perfect time to
let’s take stock of your
child’s physical and mental
health to help prepare them for
a successful school year.
That’s right in joining us this
morning to give some tips on
preparing for healthy school year.
>> Doctor Preeti Perri can
executive medical director at
Good Rx. Good Morning. Good
morning. Thank you for having
me. Yeah. So I mean, we often think about, oh, I need to make
think about, oh, I need to make
sure that my kids are up to
date on immunizations. But can
you give us some some top tips
for parents as they get ready
for their kids to go back to
make sure that they have that
they’re prepared for help the
school year.
>> Yeah, well, this 3 main
areas that I always talk about
with my patients and tell them
to talk to their pediatricians
about my friends are one is the
physical health that you
mentioned in the immunizations
up to date. But also if they
have any medical conditions
like asthma or allergies to
make sure they have an action plan in place at school.
plan in place at school.
So they know what to do in case
of an emergency and to have
their prescription medications
that the child does. Have
allergies, asthma or any
medical condition. But they
have medications both at home and at school and sometimes
and at school and sometimes
support ability could be an
issue. So checking out going
around. So talking to
pediatrician about other
medications that may work that
may be more affordable. The other areas, the mental and
other areas, the mental and
social emotional that you
mentioned is so key, especially
after these last 2 years and
going into the school year,
there’s going to be lots of ups and downs. So making sure
and downs. So making sure
talking to your child with your
pediatrician or and just making
sure they understand that
sometimes certain physical
symptoms like if they’re
breathing faster, their heart rate goes up may be due to
rate goes up may be due to
stress and anxiety. So giving
them tips and tools like taking
a deep breath, closing their
eyes so they can handle the
stress that they may deal with during the school year and last
during the school year and last
but not least is making sure
checking if your child does
have a learning disability or
is maybe does have one that just hasn’t been diagnosed yet.
just hasn’t been diagnosed yet.
If they had issues last year
or even coming up in the school
year, you’re noticing over the
summer. They’re not getting
their work done for the summer.
Meaning things like that.
Check in with your pediatrician, teacher and make
pediatrician, teacher and make
sure that they get the support
that they need.
>> While not always obvious
waters, signs of learning
difficulties that that parents
should be on the lookout for. >> Yes, sometimes than in
>> Yes, sometimes than in
typical this can be picked up
and all ages at different
stages of their life and may
not later. So this subtle
symptoms, sometimes it is signs that you can pick up on and
that you can pick up on and
talk to your pediatrician
teacher about like if you’re 10
child doesn’t get their work
done on time. They’re
disorganized. Then you see them
setting really hard. But then the grades don’t reflect it
the grades don’t reflect it
or the opposite. That their
defiant, they don’t want to
study. They’re acting out in
school. It may be because they
actually have a learning disability that hasn’t been
disability that hasn’t been
diagnosed. So if you see this
struggles happening, talk to a
pediatrician, your teachers,
you can get the best testing
done and really find out if
they do have a learning disability and get the support
disability and get the support
that they need. All right.
>> And doctor, screen time is a
huge struggle in our And and
it’s become even more so
because for the last 2 years,
my son who’s now going into 6th grade. His teachers didn’t
6th grade. His teachers didn’t
believe in giving homework,
which is great. But then my
child like, why can’t I get on
my tablet? I have no homework
to do when you’re making dinner Can you give us some ideas on
Can you give us some ideas on
ways that parents can we can
balance or limit our child’s
screen time aside from just
hiding their devices. >> Yes, And it’s also, by
>> Yes, And it’s also, by
example, as an adult with also
are all struggling at times to
keep our screen time down.
So I recommend to be ways that
you can definitely cut out time during the day. And that is one
during the day. And that is one
is a family to kind of all do
it together. So during meals,
make sure everyone gets those
devices off the table. No IPads
know bones, just get it off the table and have those
table and have those
conversations that are so
Horton. Also, if your child
healthy, we’ll get home knight,
this event has. So they’re
doing it is steady time.
If they don’t.
>> Have make sure you have
designated time when they read a book. It’s the best thing to
a book. It’s the best thing to
do and no devices during that
time had that phone or iPad out
of the room and let them focus on reading are getting their
on reading are getting their
homework and studying Don.
And then the last thing is
definitely an hour before bed.
Time is a great time to get
those devices out of the room and really go back to the
and really go back to the
basics of meeting above, taking
it in doing some meditation may
just relaxing and getting a
good night’s sleep.
>> Yeah, yeah. It’s you’ve got to set those parameters from
to set those parameters from
the get-go. So they’ve got some
sort of structure when it come
right screen time after the
eye. And there’s also these
things come family media plan
that you can go the American Academy of Pediatrics and you
Academy of Pediatrics and you
can actually sit down as a
family and kind of create
rules. And so everyone’s on the
same page them with resources
out there.
>> Yeah, you know, and sometimes it feels like parents
sometimes it feels like parents
and kids are moving a million
miles a minute. So how can
parents help their kids?
Stay ahead of all the stress.
>> Yeah, it stresses the big thing. And, you know, sometimes
thing. And, you know, sometimes
children don’t even realize
the what their rep, you know,
they’re having their heartbeat
racing with their breathing
fast. There’s cuts realize its
action due to stress or
anxiety. So having those
conversations with their child
and talking to them about the
symptoms and how it could be
due to stress or they’re
feeling nervous about
something, so identifying it
and then talking to them about
how to deal with it. So there’s
lots of ways it’s dress, but
giving them some tips like,
you know, close your eyes, take a deep breath, slow things down
a deep breath, slow things down
and really giving them that
tool kit to help them because I
want our children to be
resilient and get grit and know
that they’re going to have to deal with stress and anxiety.
deal with stress and anxiety.
But for having those
conversations can really help.
>> All right. Very good
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