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Should I Start My Child on an Exercise Program?
My 12-year-old son is gaining weight quite rapidly. He was always "just right" until middle-school homework cut into ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Fitness and Your 6- to 12-Year-Old
Kids this age need physical activity to build strength, coordination, confidence, and to lay the groundwork for a ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Recess
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, created by the United Nations in 1959, included the right for recreation ...
Source: Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University
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Sports Participation in Middle Childhood
As children enter middle childhood, they spend less time in unstructured free play and more time in structured ...
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Is Your Preschooler Too Active?
Preschoolers love being physically active, so it's no wonder that it's often hard to keep them in one place. The ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Exercise Tips
When a child is overweight, both decreasing the number of calories consumed, especially those from sweetened beverages, ...
Source: University of California San Francisco Children's Hospital
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Fitness and Your 4- to 5-Year-Old
By the time kids are 4 and 5 years old, their physical skills like running, jumping, kicking, and throwing, have come a ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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How Playing in the Outdoors Enhances Children's Development
Physical FitnessIn the United States, 14% of children 2 to 5 years old are overweight (weight for height is equal to or ...
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Benefits and Cautions of Physical Activity
With the increase in incidence of obesity, teachers are becoming concerned about energy balance as it affects not only ...
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Exercise in Middle Childhood
A subcategory of physical activity is exercise. The most distinguishable characteristics of exercise are that it is ...
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Fitness Exercises for Toddlers
Heads, Bellies, ToesThis game helps with identifying body parts, flexibility, and understanding the concepts of up, ...
Source: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
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Powerful Girls Need Physical Activity: Physical Activity Q & A
What is weight-bearing physical activity? Any activity in which the body works against gravity, so the feet, ...
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What Can I Do as a Parent or Guardian to Help Prevent Childhood Overweight and Obesity?
To help your child maintain a healthy weight, balance the calories your child consumes from foods and beverages with ...
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When Can Young Kids Start Exercising?
I have a 5-year-old son. Is he too young to start exercising? - Dorea Encouraging kids to be physically active is...
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How much responsibility do schools bear for addressing the obesity of their students?
Forgive the grammar, but the student body just ain’t what it used to be. Here’s the hard, heavy truth: American...
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Health Status and Practices - Health and Physical Development: Ages 3-5
Widely Held Expectations Child develops an awareness of health, nutrition and safety Shows growing independence in...
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Getting Kids Up and Moving at School
Fewer and fewer students are able to bike or walk to school each day, and afterschool programs focus more on academics...
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Making Exercise Fun
Children may not want to "exercise," but everybody loves to play. And young kids want to play with you. Here are a few...
