Healthy routines

Healthy routines:

• Going to bed around the same time each night, waking up in time to get ready for school
• Limiting screen time to the recommended daily amounts (see advice)
• Eating a healthy diet and trying new foods
• Brushing their teeth with fluoride toothpaste twice a day (you'll need to supervise this until they are at least 7)

Helpful web resources

Screen time and internet safety

Understand what 'healthy' levels of screen time are, by age

• World Health Organization guidance
• Health Professionals for Safer Screens poster

Get insights on internet safety, how screen use impacts young children and recommended screen time

• Help for early years providers: Internet safety

And for those with younger children, the NCT covers advice for babies and toddlers too:

• Screen time for babies and toddlers - NCT

Healthy eating

Help children build a strong relationship with food and make the right choices from the start

• Nutrition guidance - Department for Education
• Healthier families - NHS
• Five tips for helping your kids to eat healthily all year round - BBC
• Eating Well - First Steps Nutrition Trust
• Factsheet for healthy children's diets - Association of UK Dieticians

Brushing teeth

• Toothbrushing SOS with the singing dentist

Sleep guidance

• Sleep and young children - NHS
• Struggling to get children to sleep: How to establish a bedtime routine - BBC