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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Is Your Child Getting Enough Physical Education?
With concerns about childhood obesity weighing on the minds of parents and educators, physical education is taking on...
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Physical Activity for Children: How much do they need?
Children and adolescents should do 60 minutes (1 hour) or more of physical activity each day. This may sound like a...
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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 his...
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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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Into the Wild: Outward Bound and NOLS
Studies have shown that wilderness programs strengthen psychological resilience. Here are two ways parents can get their...
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