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Healthy Jingles for Kids: Strength and Flexibility
Posted On 2009-11-14 , 5:32 PM
 Healthy Jingles for Kids: Strength and Flexibility by Vernon Alfred Quarstein Ph.D.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book provides help to parents and teachers children in preschool and kindergarten, both at home and in the classroom, teaching exercising. Two problems face children's exercises. One is that parents are generally afraid of letting their young children go outside even in the backyard by themselves to play. No matter where one goes in residential communities in cities in the United States one cannot find any children outside in yards or on the streets. This seems to stem from television reports that stress murders, kidnapping, and rape from anywhere that it occurs throughout the country. Parents cannot be expected to expose their children to the many events that take place even though the probability of it happening in their yard is exceptionally small. Are these reports on the TV a public service or not? In a way it is, but it most certainly provides frightening evidence that it is not safe to let kids play outside even in the yard. Even kids that take the bus to and from school are met at the school bus stop by parents to drive them a few blocks home, again to protect them from would-be criminals.. Another problem is that parents generally both work (if married or living with someone) so this means that on other than school days and weekends children are confined to their homes either with relatives or with a babysitters who have little or no appreciation of daily needs of children for exercise. This book is designed to overcome both of these problems. It provides both parents and teachers (whomever they may be) with instructions on how to afford exercise planned play sessions in the home, yard or playground. The book is illustrated to show how to do the exercises. It uses rhythmic jingles to stress the benefits of exercises. These jingles can be easily sung or read by whoever is tending the children, and the instructions to the person on how to do the exercises are clear and simple. The book most certainly provides a partial solution to the problems stressed above. The book is certainly helpful in preschool and kindergarten level classes, becase it is can easily uses to read and use to enhance instruction. The jingles are there to help children remember and recall on a daily basis the most important benefits of exercising for strength and flexibility and how to do these exercises. This book is a companion to the book: Healthy Jingles for Kids: Walking and Running which is for use with toddlers and points out to parents just how important it really is to exercise even the very young.
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Rhythmic Jingles for Health and Fitness
Posted On 2009-11-10 , 5:38 PM
RHYTHMIC JINGLES IN HEALTH AND FITNESS
By Vernon A. Quarstein
Healthy Jingles are authoritative thumbnail self-help practices advocated by famous American medical schools and hospitals. Continued rapid advancement in medicine complicates the transfer of medical advice from the doctor’s office to the patient and to the public at large. These healthy jingles employ greatly simplified methods of informing people about medical self-help. This article advocates the conversion of some aspects of medical advice into the form of Healthy Jingles when amplified by use of narrative explanations. This approach helps close the gaps between both understanding and remembering. Preventative measures to be taken against illnesses such as obesity, memory and sleep problems, worry and anxiety, headaches and colds, heart disease and stroke, cancer and diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease are potential targets for this treatment.
This means that more people will read more and become better informed on the content and power of a fitness lifestyle to prevent debilitating diseases in the future. For those soon to be or already stricken, jingles express self-help advice as advocated by top nutritional and medical schools and famous clinics and hospitals in the United States. The www.wellnessactivities.org website illustrates the use of jingles as a method for expressing self-help guidelines for fitness and health. Jingles add a measure of fun in the process of learning about the latest fitness and health literature.
We converted selected medical self-help advice into jingles that afford certain advantages over advice written in narrative format as found in almost all medical publications. The jingle format is interesting, easy to learn, enjoyable to read, easily understood, retained longer, and recalled quicker than narrative formats. We have also converted medical advice into rhythmic healthy jingles for kids which are featured on the website.
From a health education standpoint, the average child learns at a level depending upon age. Instructions have to be kept clear and simple. Some children may be better prepared. Adults can use Kid’s jingles as well as kids to learn ways to prevent the onset of illnesses, They are generally not at their best–particularly for learning and remembering particularly after recovering from an illness. They are often overwhelmed by their diagnosis, denial, fear, and so forth. It could be helpful to reward them with their own Healthy Jingle upon departure, to guide them in recovery and self care..
Almost anyone would more likely remember a catchy phrase like “One, Two, Coated Aspirins: Don't Chew," which is better than "Don't Chew Coated Acetylsalicylic Acid Tablets,” according to Linda Dumanowski, She says, "You probably would not be amazed at the number of people who don't know the difference between acetaminophen and acetylsalicylic acid (Tylenol and aspirin). Many people think they are the same thing as is to be expected. If a drug has a long generic name, medical “lingo” confuses patients at the very beginning.
Use of jingles can rephrase the usual medical “lingo.” Not only are jingles easier to recall but also much more fun to remember. Here is an example of an old jingle that would apply to adults or children who practice poor dental hygiene (Composed by an anonymous author}:
Dental Danger Jingle
What to do to take care of YOU?
That's the biggest question by FAR.
Visit dentist, brush teeth, floss TOO,
Or your teeth may end up in a JAR!
Much of the information that adults are given is properly written at about the sixth-grade level. This level makes understanding fairly simple for some. This is not to say that the average patient’s mental ability is on a sixth-grade level, What many patients and children can assimilate needs to be stated more simply, and without too many details and in medical lingo that confuses them. The “average patient” consists of people from all walks of life, socioeconomic status, familiarity with the language, and educational and cultural backgrounds. To quote Linda Dumanowski, the nurse contributor to the book Healthy Jingles for the Mind and Body, she states:
“I have taught patients who are blind, deaf, cannot read, speak only Hmong, or who come with cultural medical beliefs that are completely different from what we practice in the United States. So, you can see where simplicity might work best. I ask the question: What is the most important bit of information that they must learn? The answer is: Medical self-care and prevention. While patients are at home there is usually no one around knowledgeable enough to advise them on medically recommended health and fitness.”
Linda Dumanowski emphasizes the absence of and importance of readily available information regarding medical self-care and prevention for patients while at home and anywhere else, for that matter. This information was once occasionally available when doctors made house calls on patients, but that practice was essentially discontinued long ago. The vacuum left by discontinuance of house calls has not since been adequately filled. If use of Jingles were to become common as a way to express medical truths perhaps the vacuum might be filled.
Narrative literature is often provided as patients leave the doctor’s office or the hospital in the form of a hastily devised and poorly reproduced unbound sheets of paper, or as oral instructions directly from the doctor. Unfortunately, narrative literature is too often too hard to read, and oral instructions may be short and soon forgotten. Some insurance companies including Medicare extend nursing care via telephone and by nurses visits before and after hospitalization, but this service covers a small portion of the market. The people on Medicade are the most vulnerable to misunderstanding. There is also a vast array of narrative information on medical self-care and self-prevention published in books, magazines, and pamphlets, but not in a form readily available, usable or believable by the average person. A half dozen rhythmic healthy jingles might help fill this vacuum created mainly by the "medical system."
For patients in a clinic or hospital, self-care and self-prevention information can be obtained from a doctor or nurse, but information on self-prevention care is usually too late. This information is available in publications sold by medical schools and clinics but the cost of such publications even though reasonable may be prohibitive to many. Healthy jingles can, on the other hand, be help fill the need for self-care and self-help while the patient is at home before becoming a patient. The series of eight Healthy Jingles for Kids books available through the www.wellnessactivities.org website and soon to be completed may contribute to self-prevention on a limited but useful scale.
We introduce the use of rhythmic healthy jingles supplemented by narrative explanations as an efficient and effective way to encapsulate self-help type advice established by medical authorities. Use of jingles as a means of expressing authoritative medical advice makes execution far easier to understand and remember, and more enjoyable to use. These jingles may also be readily set to music and songs.
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Healthy Jingles for Kids
Posted On 2009-09-23 , 7:35 AM
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bENEFITS OF HEALTHY JINGLES FOR KIDS BOOKS
Posted On 2008-08-25 , 5:52 PM
BENEFITS FROM READING
HEALTHY JINGLES FOR KIDS
Rhythmic jingles are easier to remember and more fun to follow. Jingles help motivate parents and children to observe good health and fitness practices. Narratives following most jingles expand the wellness messages for better understanding. Please review the benefits listed below for your own benefit!.
 BENEFIT NO. 1 of 8: START VERY YOUNG
Given the right information in the right format preschool and school age children can easily learn about wellness activities while they are very young. Those who are taught about wellness activities while young retain this knowledge and habits as they grow older.
BENEFIT NO. 2 of 8:  RHYTHMIC JINGLES
One of the easiest and best ways to remember wellness information and activities is through use of rhythmic jingles. Lack of wellness activities (the primary cause of obesity), is a very serious and growing problem for most people both young and old. Our parents did not know about the seriousness of diseases that obesity can cause in our lives. Some parents were not aware of the need for a wellness teaching tool.
BENEFIT NO. 3 of 8: AVOID OBESITY
Teaching kids about health and fitness while they are very young helps to avoid obesity, and greatly improves their chances for rewarding future lives. An important goal is to teach wellness activities to our children using healthy jingles beginning at or near age one. Healthy Jingles Publications LLC employs jingles to teach kids about health and fitness to help them recall the need for wellness activities in the future.
BENEFIT NO. 4 of 8: HELPS ADULTS
Parents not only need guidance in order to teach their children while still tiny tots, but they also need to learn about and adopt wellness activities themselves. This website provides access to wellness activities for children in the book Healthy Jingles for Kids: Walking and Running plus 7 more.
BENEFIT NO. 5 of 8: EASY TO REMEMBER
Both kids and adults love jingles because they rhyme and are easy to remember . When jingles are read to children by a parent, kids learn them through the process of repetition. That is, health becomes a part of a child’s permanent memory.
BENEFIT NO 6 of 8: WELLNESS ACTIVITIES
Wellness information and activities in the form of rhythmic jingles make up the hard and soft cover books, the E-books, articles, pamphlets, and related products that are offered on the pages of this website. Through use of these resources much can be achieved by adopting health and fitness habits. Obesity can often be avoided by wellness activities.
BENEFIT NO. 7 of 8: EXPERT SOURCES
Because medically based jingles alone are not enough, explanations by top rated medical schools, hospitals and clinics in the United States, and by medical practitioners themselves have been added. It is vitally important to have medical advice for our kids from experts such as experienced pediatricians and practicing child psychologists. Bringing wellness activities into one's lifestyle can prevent diabetes and strokes and heart diseases. It can improve memory and physical conditioning.
BENEFIT NO. 8 of 8: MEDICAL RESEARCH
Our ancestors did not know what we now know about wellness activities and therefore could not teach us. We now know from recent medical research how important it really is to teach young children about health and fitness early in life. Wellness activities early in life produce a state of wellbeing as we grow older – both physically and mentally – and this wellbeing lasts for many years. Wellness activities improve both the mind and the body and contribute immeasurably to the pursuit of happiness.
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EXAMPLES OF JINGLES WITH NOTES TO PARENTS
Posted On 2008-03-11 , 1:49 PM
Healthy Jingles for Kids
Most Kid’s books start right off with pictures as the first page without any introductory remarks because the children are expected to look at the books by themselves. This book and accompanying adult books are different. The Kids Books are for parents to read and explain to kids, over and over again until the entire family gets the message about health and fitness. The Adult E-Books are for parents and teachers to refresh their memory of what top medical sources say about the subjects. The jingles and books are not just for kids to read by themselves, but for parents to read and explain to their small children so all learn about healthy lifestyles.
The purpose of the book is to let both kids and their parents know what happens to sedentary children who are not taught about and do not take part in good health and fitness practices while still young. To get the idea that walking and running is the most basic, but not the only form of exercise, children should be taught very early in life so that they grow up taking part in healthful lifestyles.
Over the last 100 years, lifestyles have dramatically changed from a time when there was very few cars and paved roads and a maximum speed of 10 miles per hour, to a time when cars and wheeled vehicles are so plentiful that they congest paved roads over the entire country and are posted with maximum speeds often at 75 miles per hour. Today, most people walk only for short distances from the car to the house. They no longer walk to shops and offices as they used to do. The dangers of getting hit by a car, attacked by a mob, or becoming ill from exhaust fumes appear to be too high to take a chance.
Yet, walking just 30 minutes per day and following a heart healthy diet could cut the incapacitation and death rates by at least one third if not more. Parents and their children must eat well and also find ways to walk, run and exercise to avoid early obesity and to ingrain healthful habits in their young children.
We have discussed this subject with medical doctors at Mayo Clinic. They say that there is absolutely nothing in books that give new parents guidance regarding what should be taught to children about exercising. Many parents lack knowledge of how to bring their kids up in the manner outlined in the healthy jingles books. The medical profession knows that inactivity of small children will certainly produce medical crises in the future.
Poor health often results from obesity which in turn caused by lack of exercise and poor eating habits. The obesity in younger children will cause so many illnesses in the future that it stresses the capacity of the medical profession to provide needed medical care.
Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and The New England Journal of Medicine report that the rate of death from heart disease in this country was cut by 50% over a 20-year span (1980 to 2000). But now the fear of letting our children go outside to play could reverse these gains in the future. A reduction in heart disease through lifestyle changes goes a long way toward maintaining optimum health. This can be easily done by adhering to good wellness practices while growing up.
Ways to improve lifestyle include not smoking, exercising, healthier diets that include less meat and saturated fats and more fruits and vegetables.
Tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and poor eating habits cause suffering and early death in millions of Americans. At least one third of all deaths can be attributed to poor lifestyle. All of these good practices can be taught to children using the www.wellnessactives.org website.
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