Choose a school backpack

Good backpack for a child is not a whim placed on your child parents and common sense. Of course, if you want to have your first-grader already after the first year the school had problems with your back, you can buy "crap", but if you value the health of your child look closely at buying.


The main condition of a backpack - orthopedic backrest, which could manage the load of the contents of the bag. Not less important factor is the wide straps (not less than 5 cm). The backpack must be sustainable, not to lose shape, depending on the situation.




The width of the backpack should be the same as the width of the back of the child. Fit the bag must come to the back and reach the bones of the pelvis.




A good backpack, books should be displayed correctly: the greatest closer to the back, then books, then the pencil case. It is also important to strike a balance between the right side and the left to the center of gravity was very close to the axis of the body. Then the child will not have to bend over.




Monitor your baby, so he didn't wear all textbooks (regardless lessons) every day. The weight of the backpack should be no more than 8-10% of the weight of a schoolboy. According to the regulations for class 1 to 3 it is 1, 5-2 kg, 4-5 - 2-2, 5 kg, 6-7 - 3-3, 5 kg and for 8-11 - 4-4, 5 kg, it is also Necessary to teach a child to carry the bag the exact center of the back.

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