How children should sit to maintain a healthy back

Surely you have ever observed your son collapsed on the couch in a contortionist posture that even your cat can not imitate. One thing is that you admire the flexibility that your child's body can have and another that you do not do anything to make it feel right. We are not talking about a question

Surely you have ever observed your son collapsed on the couch in a contortionist posture that even your cat can not imitate. One thing is that you admire the flexibility that your child's body can have and another that you do not do anything to make it feel right. We are not talking about a question of social norms, but of health.

Poor sitting postures can eventually cause back injuries of varying severity. And it is always better to instill good postural hygiene when you are children than to suffer from back pain, contractures and other more important injuries when you are already an adult. If you teach your child to sit correctly you will be guaranteeing a healthy back in the future.

We tell you how children should sit to maintain a healthy back.

How children should sit

It is never too late to educate ourselves on postural hygiene, but it is always better to accustom the child to sit correctly than to wait for a back injury to appear. And the truth is that children tend to adopt bad postures when sitting, both on the sofa, on the floor and in the chair. It is important to know how children should sit to have a healthy back.

A bad posture, but very frequent, is to sit with half back out of the chair. This is generally the position that children adopt when they do their homework or when they sit down to eat but are willing to run away. Collapsing on the couch with your back to one side is not the healthiest way to watch TV, either for your back or for your eyes.

When children sit on the floor they also tend to adopt bad postures. As frequent as nefarious to the hips it is to sit with the legs bent backwards in the form of W. Neither to sit on the heels is the best way to favor the postural development. If your child wants to sit on the floor, the healthiest thing is to do it in the Indian style. The correct way to sit

The most healthy posture to maintain a healthy back is to sit with the

straight back ,resting on the back of a chair and forming a 90 ° angle. The legs should reach the ground and the elbows should be supported. This is the correct posture for children to feel. The reality is that this position is rarely achieved and the only responsible are not the children. How many

children's or youth rooms are prepared so that the child feels correctly when doing homework or studying? Generally the study tables are too small and the children have to juggle to fit the book and the notebook at the same time. Thus they end up adopting a posture with the turned back that allows them to write. And for some unknown reason, the work chair of the little ones is not given as much attention as that of the parents. It is also very common to let children do the

homework at the dining table. With the table and chairs too high, the children's legs are hanging and the back ends up adopting a forced posture. Therefore, children must be taught the need to maintain adequate postural hygiene, but they must also be provided with the proper environment to do so. Laura Vélez . Collaborator of Guiainfantil.com