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Aside form practicing good food habits, children should also practice other good habits that promote health and well-being.

Keeping clean

Make cleanliness a habit. Take a bath daily. Wash your hands as often as needed. Brush your teeth. be sure to clean your nose and ears. Keeping yourself clean can keep off some germs that cause diseases.

Exercise

Your body also needs exercise. Exercise makes your flexibility and makes your heart, lungs and other body parts work efficiently.

Walking, running, jogging and swimming are forms of exercise. Playing is also an exercise.

Rest

While you need exercise, you also need rest. Muscles get tired when they are overworked. When your muscles are tired, they cannot work well.

Rest after work or play. You rest when you sit down and read a book or listen to music. Sleep is a form of rest. During sleep you give your body time to build up new energy.

Sniff your sense.Do you know that if your nose is at its best, you can tell the difference between 4000 to 10,000 smells. People who cannot smell have a condition called anosmia. As you get older, your sense of smell becomes weaker. Children are more likely to have a better sense of smell than parents or grandparents.

Sense and sensitivity. When somebody tickles you on a specific part of your body, you feel funny. This is because you are sensitive in that part of your body. Touch receptors found in the entire body helps you feel these sensations. The most sensitive parts of the body are the hands,lips, face, neck, tongue, fingertips and feet. The least sensitive part is the middle of the back.

Taste Buddy. We have almost 10,000 taste buds in out mouths-even on the roofs of the mouth. Despite these numbers, our sense of taste is the weakest of the five senses. In general, girls have more taste buds than boys.

Few young children can visualize a map of the United Kingdom, let alone the location of other countries in the world. Here’s a way to use television news to help your children learn about geography here and abroad.
Keep an atlas or globe next to the television. When you turn on the evening news, hand your children pencils and paper and ask them to write down the names of every place mentioned by the newscasters; They might also want to jot down the context in which these places were mentioned.
Following the news, help your children look up each place in the atlas, and, if possible, pinpoint it on a globe. Does location have anything to do with the news story? For example is there a border dispute or does an unfriendly neighbor nation pose a threat? Is geography a factor? Has an earthquake shattered a region, or has drought produced a famine?
If your children enjoy record keeping, they might like one of these related activities:
Colour-in Mao. While listening to the news, your children can have handy a box of crayons and a map of the United Kingdom. They can make the map by tracing a map from a reference book. When a city, county or country is mentioned, they colour in that area on the map.
This activity will help your children define geographic regions and learn the locations of different counties and cities. They may be surprised to see how long it takes some places to make the
news.

• Record Number of Places. Your children can keep a running count of the different cities, counties, countries, or famous people mentioned in a single news programme. They’ll listen more closely and become more familiar with these names in the news if they’re trying to establish a new record.