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Helping children develop a healthy lifestyle, including healthy eating and physical activity, begins at home but it is also important that these behaviors are reinforced in the childcare or school setting. Parents and caregivers can help children to be active and make smart food choices by modeling these behaviors themselves. We have gathered information to help you promote your child's healthy lifestyle!
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Tips to Help Children in a World that is Critical of Body Size
Create an environment where children learn to feel good about themselves. Help children recognize what they are good...
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Let’s Move… Cold Weather Fun!
Cold weather offers great ways to have family fun. Take time to play together – and move more. You’ll all feel good!...
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Teaching Your Child to Swim
There's an ocean of reasons why kids should learn how to swim while they're young. The most obvious one is safety. If...
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Making Physical Activity a Part of a Child's Life
How is it possible for my child to meet the Guidelines? Many physical activities fall under more than one type of...
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Family Fitness
The statistics on childhood obesity are frightening. Children between the ages of 2 and 5 have become twice as likely to...
