Parents must demonstrate sun safety this summer for kids’ sake

Source: Canberra Weekly, January 2021

Research shows kids of the 1980s and 1990s – many of whom now have children of their own – are failing to protect their skin from the sun’s harmful rays by practicing sun safety, with 25% reporting they get sunburnt on summer weekends.

Canberra-based Australasian College of Dermatologists president Dr Andrew Miller says sunscreen is just one part of a protection strategy. Image: Kerrie Brewer
Cancer Council ACT CEO Sandra Turner said this alarming statistic made her concerned the sun safety messages promoted to children in primary school weren’t reinforced by parents at home.

“Come the weekends, their parents are saying they have to put their hat on – but Mum and Dad walk around in baseball caps or singlets and don’t cover up,” she said.

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