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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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Setting a Healthy Example
Your actions speak louder than your words. Your teens are watching what you do. What they see will affect how they...
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Physical Fitness in Infants and Toddlers
WASHINGTON, D.C. Dr. Jane Clark, professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland,...
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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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Child’s Play!
Your child is designed to move! Most kids like to climb, crawl, run, jump, swing, tumble, twist, stretch, and peddle. In...
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Exercise and Physical Fitness: Parents' Role
As with all societal problems, the schools can't do it all. Parents can do much to instill awareness of fitness in the...
