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title: Back-to-school health and hygiene tips
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# Back-to-school health and hygiene tips

**[The Grio](https://thegrio.com/2024/09/12/watch-back-to-school-health-and-hygiene-tips-life-hacks/),**
September 12, 2024
_Written by Jasmine Hardy_

School is in session! In this episode of “Life Hacks with Liana,” Tamara Poole,
an associate vice president of curriculum and learning at
[Arizona College of Nursing](https://www.arizonacollege.edu/), joins “Life Hacks
with Liana” to share health and hygiene tips for children going back to school.

_[Also shared on Yahoo Life](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/watch-back-school-health-hygiene-121855827.html)_

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“I think it’s important for us to know that all children should have a specified
time and an established bedtime routine as part of their day-to-day, nighttime
interactions,” Poole told theGrio. “I would say the biggest piece that I think
about is consistency in a routine. We want to start that process at least
several weeks in advance, prior to the start of the school year, so that they
can get their bodies and their minds accustomed to the idea that they’re going
to be going to bed earlier than they used to.”

Poole shared some tips to keep in mind for a bedtime routine.

![Nursing School faculty member Poole](https://arizonacollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TPoole.webp)![Nursing School faculty member Poole](https://arizonacollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TPoole.webp)
“It’s important for them to have a standard routine as far as getting them ready
to go to sleep, not just, ‘Hey, go to sleep,’” Poole continued. “So things like
yoga or listening to music, possibly even reading a book, those types of
activities that decrease the stimuli in the room and get their mind to be ready
to fall asleep, versus using technology or things with that blue light that
doesn’t increase that melatonin production, so that that will not induce sleep.”

[Click here to watch video.](https://thegrio.com/2024/09/12/watch-back-to-school-health-and-hygiene-tips-life-hacks/)

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