
About Children Living in the Red Zone
Children of all ages are suffering from burnout and it’s starting as early as preschool. What are we doing? Are our children living in the red zone called overload? If your child has no time for play dates with friends and you no longer have time to play games with each other, then you are living in the red zone. Get out, as quickly as you can!
Nikki Bush, creative parenting expert and author of Future-proof Your Child (Penguin), will discuss the current epidemic being witnessed by parents, educators and healthcare practitioners alike. She will put the following factors into perspective:
- extra-mural activities
- play dates
- downtime / potter time
- supervised & structured activities vs free play
- marketing to children
- choices
- on-screen activities & overexposure
- creativity
- sleep
- inappropriate information
- resourcefulness, resilience and creativity
- cellular disturbances / inflammation
- parental stress
- a warp-speed world
This interactive presentation is filled with anecdotes and personal insights. Nikki looks at 10 common parenting traps and their solutions. It is designed to help parents and educators to understand the forces at play and the demands on young children today, and to encourage them to reclaim childhood and their sanity by resetting to zero.