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Why School Attendance is Important
Healthy Children
English - November 08, 2022 06:00 - 37.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHealth & Fitness american academy pediatrics aap healthychildren org healthy children melanie cole Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Now that our kids are back to in-person schooling, some of them don't always wanna go. But there are a number of reasons for that.
So today we're talking to Dr. Heidi Schumacher. She's a practicing pediatrician and she also serves as the Assistant Superintendent of Health and Wellness at the DC office of the State Superintendent of Education. So she is seeing many sides of this attendance issue, the anxiety issue, the whole school avoidance, and also the health implications and benefits of really that routine, that school attendance.
In this episode, Melanie and Dr. Schumacher look at the research on school attendance, why kids are missing school these days, dealing with technological distractions and sleep, and how parents fit in the mix.