Healthy Kids? Keep Order, Routine in Their Lives
Something new to blame us for? A new study has found that disorder,noise and a lack of routine in the household can severely affect young children's health. But the study also found that a mother's "chaotic work life" also has a huge effect. Who among us does not have a chaotic work life? “Children need to have order in their lives,” Claire Kamp Dush, lead author of the study and assistant professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University, told newswise.com. “When their life is chaotic and not predictable, it can lead to poorer health.” Though the study involved mostly low-income families, and the results showed mothers who were more impoverished reported significantly higher levels of chaos, the findings can still be extrapolated to families with more money. “I don’t think that the findings would be different in a middle-class sample – chaos is bad for children from any background,” she said. But, she added, most middle-class families can avoid the...