Child Health Education

Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 4:17 am

A little while ago a parent said, “I hear a great deal about health education lately. I don’t understand where all this need for health education has originated. Isn’t it true that the average length of life has about doubled in the last 150 years? When I was a youngster on a farm in the middle west I had none of this health education. Why can’t we let our children grow up naturally instead of having to train them to do this and to do that? Why do the public schools nowadays have a health training program?”

What is the answer to some of these questions? Yes, the span of life has more than doubled. In 1789 it was about 28 years. In 1921 it was 58 years.

The process of lengthening life is going on even more rapidly today and the reason you hear more about health education is because sanitar ians are coming to recognize that sanitation of water and food supplies and the use of vaccines and antitoxins are not enough in themselves. The study of public health problems shows that the development of an intelligent and hygienic mode of living by the individual is extremely important, not only in reducing the death rate but Ow by increasing the happiness rate through the more vigorous, happy, and buoyant health to be obtained through healthful living.

The nature of the life of man is changing. The world has doubled its population in the last 100 years. The majority of us now work in shops, offices or factories while all but our most immediate ancestors have always lived out of doors. The boy on the farm a generation or two ago had plenty of fruit, vegetables and milk. He exercised out of doors. He had some time by himself without the excitement of city life. After supper there was not much to do and rather poor light in which to read. It was easy to get to bed early. Today high pressure living reaches the child as well as the adult. Education in health demands that we shall train the child to adjust himself to the kind of environment in which he lives in such a way that vigorous health may be maintained.

The school undertakes to go hand in hand with the home in this training of the child. Certainly you want the school to support you in the habit training you are undertaking at home. You are trying, to develop habits of cleanliness, good posture, clear thinking, mental health, and you do not want the school to destroy what you are trying to do for the child. The school can help you in these things. The parent today is also warranted in demanding, in addition to the properly functioning health department, a program in the public school through which it shall assist the home in the positive constructive health training of the child.

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Child Health Education

Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 4:17 am

A little while ago a parent said, “I hear a great deal about health education lately. I don’t understand where all this need for health education has originated. Isn’t it true that the average length of life has about doubled in the last 150 years? When I was a youngster on a farm in the middle west I had none of this health education. Why can’t we let our children grow up naturally instead of having to train them to do this and to do that? Why do the public schools nowadays have a health training program?”

What is the answer to some of these questions? Yes, the span of life has more than doubled. In 1789 it was about 28 years. In 1921 it was 58 years.

The process of lengthening life is going on even more rapidly today and the reason you hear more about health education is because sanitar ians are coming to recognize that sanitation of water and food supplies and the use of vaccines and antitoxins are not enough in themselves. The study of public health problems shows that the development of an intelligent and hygienic mode of living by the individual is extremely important, not only in reducing the death rate but Ow by increasing the happiness rate through the more vigorous, happy, and buoyant health to be obtained through healthful living.

The nature of the life of man is changing. The world has doubled its population in the last 100 years. The majority of us now work in shops, offices or factories while all but our most immediate ancestors have always lived out of doors. The boy on the farm a generation or two ago had plenty of fruit, vegetables and milk. He exercised out of doors. He had some time by himself without the excitement of city life. After supper there was not much to do and rather poor light in which to read. It was easy to get to bed early. Today high pressure living reaches the child as well as the adult. Education in health demands that we shall train the child to adjust himself to the kind of environment in which he lives in such a way that vigorous health may be maintained.

The school undertakes to go hand in hand with the home in this training of the child. Certainly you want the school to support you in the habit training you are undertaking at home. You are trying, to develop habits of cleanliness, good posture, clear thinking, mental health, and you do not want the school to destroy what you are trying to do for the child. The school can help you in these things. The parent today is also warranted in demanding, in addition to the properly functioning health department, a program in the public school through which it shall assist the home in the positive constructive health training of the child.

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Child Health Education

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at 10:17 am

A little while ago a parent said, “I hear a great deal about health education lately. I don’t understand where all this need for health education has originated. Isn’t it true that the average length of life has about doubled in the last 150 years? When I was a youngster on a farm in the middle west I had none of this health education. Why can’t we let our children grow up naturally instead of having to train them to do this and to do that? Why do the public schools nowadays have a health training program?”

What is the answer to some of these questions? Yes, the span of life has more than doubled. In 1789 it was about 28 years. In 1921 it was 58 years.

The process of lengthening life is going on even more rapidly today and the reason you hear more about health education is because sanitar ians are coming to recognize that sanitation of water and food supplies and the use of vaccines and antitoxins are not enough in themselves. The study of public health problems shows that the development of an intelligent and hygienic mode of living by the individual is extremely important, not only in reducing the death rate but Ow by increasing the happiness rate through the more vigorous, happy, and buoyant health to be obtained through healthful living.

The nature of the life of man is changing. The world has doubled its population in the last 100 years. The majority of us now work in shops, offices or factories while all but our most immediate ancestors have always lived out of doors. The boy on the farm a generation or two ago had plenty of fruit, vegetables and milk. He exercised out of doors. He had some time by himself without the excitement of city life. After supper there was not much to do and rather poor light in which to read. It was easy to get to bed early. Today high pressure living reaches the child as well as the adult. Education in health demands that we shall train the child to adjust himself to the kind of environment in which he lives in such a way that vigorous health may be maintained.

The school undertakes to go hand in hand with the home in this training of the child. Certainly you want the school to support you in the habit training you are undertaking at home. You are trying, to develop habits of cleanliness, good posture, clear thinking, mental health, and you do not want the school to destroy what you are trying to do for the child. The school can help you in these things. The parent today is also warranted in demanding, in addition to the properly functioning health department, a program in the public school through which it shall assist the home in the positive constructive health training of the child.

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