Halifax Regional Health System | Life & Health | Summer 2014 - page 2

JUST FOR KIDS
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Backpack
overload?
Your children may have
backpack overload if they:
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Struggle to put the backpack
on or take it off.
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Change posture while
wearing the backpack.
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Have red marks on their
shoulders.
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Feel tingling or numbness
in their arms or legs.
Healthy breakfast
The Breakfast Buddies need your help. They’re
trying to find all the words that describe why
breakfast is good for you. Can you help them?
Find these words:
Brainpower
Good mood
Better grades
Nutrition
Vitamins
Concentration
Minerals
Energy
ACROSS
1.
Listen to your favorite
.
2.
or play sports.
6.
Plan a
with friends.
7.
Watch a funny
show.
9.
at yourself.
DOWN
3.
regular meals.
4.
Take time to
back and relax.
5.
Get plenty of
.
8.
about your stress with a friend.
10.
Lend a
. It’s hard to feel stressed
when you’re helping someone else.
ANSWERS: Across: 1.
music; 2. exercise; 6. party; 7. TV; 9. laugh;
Down: 3. eat; 4. kick; 5. sleep; 8. talk; 10. hand.
How to stress less
Stress is that feeling you get when you’re worried or anxious. Lots
of things can cause it. Moving to a new place to live could be stress-
ful. So could having too much homework. Or having problems with
your friends. But lots of things can reduce stress too. Some of those
things are in the puzzle below. Read the sentences and fill in the
blanks with the words that fit best. The pictures will give you clues.
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q
1 3,4,5,6,7,8
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