New WHO Guidelines for under 5s

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www.who.int/news-room/detail/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more

Sorry if this has already been done. I see most of the media has focused on the screen-time element but but about the one hour limit on pram time? I live in London and it routinely takes an hour to get somewhere so DD (5m) will often be in the pram that long or longer. We also walk a lot to keep me sane.

How are people intending to deal with this?

Oooooh gosh. I don't know how I'd deal with it, tbh. I have three kids under 5 and am a single parent. The baby (6months) is strapped to me in the baby carrier from about 5-8pm every night while I cook dinner, bath the older two, put them to bed etc. She's very clingy and wants to be held all the time. The WHO recommends less than an hour a day in the carrier, and that's just not feasible for my life at present.

She does have tummy time and time on the floor and in the jumperoo, but less than an hour a day in pram/car seat/carrier is impossible.

I guess I'd see it as a guideline. Where possible, I'll try and keep my kids as active as I can. But I'm not going to beat myself up when I can't.

So are they going to supply us with free housekeepers and chauffeurs? There is no way I'd get anything done if my 14 month old who is a real climber but still a non walker could only be in a buggy for 1 hour a day, especially as I can't drive.

It's hard to get all of it right! We did away with the pram as soon as ours could walk but we definitely fall down on screen time and they probably don't exercise enough.

I think it's one hour at a time in pram/sling, not a total of one hour