Tips to Help Keep Your Kids Safe and Healthy in the Fall

The fall season is an excellent opportunity to continue the things you enjoy doing and to explore new ways to be safe and healthy with your kids.

Learn more about the following autumn tips to help keep your kids safe and healthy.

• Have an afternoon of food-tasting. Try new foods or prepare them differently.

• Be active and have fun outdoors and indoors.

• Check out your teen’s job. Know what to look for to keep your child safe.

• Check the safety of toys and other products. Make sure potential hazards don’t live in your home, school, park, or other setting.

• Do as you say. You’re their role model, after all. Get involved in school. Keep safety in mind wherever they are.

• Start with a healthy pregnancy to help them from the start.

Find out what you know about kids’ health with this quick quiz:

1. True or False: Kids should wash hands for at least 20 seconds
  to remove germs.

Clean Hands Save Lives

2. True or False: Children should get at least 20 to 30 minutes of physical activity on most,
  preferably all, days of the week.

How Much Physical Activity Do Children Need?

3. True or False: Children should be able to swing, climb, hop, and somersault at five
  years of age.

Learn the Signs, Act Early

4. True or False: Children ages 6 months through 18 years should receive an annual flu vaccination.

Seasonal Flu

1. True. Kids (and the rest of us) should wash their hands for at least 20 seconds to remove germs.

2. False. Children and adolescents should do 60 minutes (1 hour) or more of physical activity each day, including aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening activities.

3. True. Swinging, climbing, hopping, and somersaulting are developmental milestones
  for children five years of age.

4. True. The single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each year. Children less than 6 months of age are too young to get vaccinated.

More Information

• Autumn Tips to Help Keep Your Kids Safe and Healthy
• Autumn Games and Health Tips for Kids and Parents
• Autumn Health and Safety Tips
• Express Your Health!™ Activity Book for Kids
• Safe and Healthy Kids and Teens
  
• Children
• Education
• Family Health
• Healthy Youth
• Infants and Toddlers
• Flu Season is Here: Learn How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones