You Are Never To Young To Stay Fit We’ve all heard the saying “the family that prays together stays together”. Well these days it may be the family that exercises together stays in shape together. Preteens love to hang around the nest with mom and dad, but as they get older they stray from home [...]
Overweight Kids Find Exercise Helps Them Control Emotions
Are Your Kids Healthy? Exercise for overweight kids is not only good for weight loss. A new study shows that regular aerobic exercise helps kids reduce their expressions of anger. After participating in a 10-15 week after school program, 208 typically sedentary 7-11 year olds reduced their anger expression, like slamming doors or hitting, and [...]
Keeping Kids Healthy With Kids Fitness
Take Concern Over Your Health The fight against childhood obesity is still a tough battle. Though this very important topic is in the news more frequently and schools are trying to give students healthier choices, childhood obesity rates remain high. A study done by Dr. Arthur Agatston (of South Beach Diet fame) showed that schools [...]
Make Kids Yoga Fun With A Buggy Yoga Mat
Yoga For Fun Want to get your young child excited about Yoga? Start with a colorful buggy mat. This child sized sticky yoga mat is fun and playful and your kid just might not mind being caught toting one around. Why? Because she will think it’s cool. It’s not like mom’s boring no graphics yoga [...]
Kids Fitness Starts With Exercises They Stick With
Be Fit While You’re Young Get kids moving and you’ve won half the battle. Get them to enjoy exercising and you’ve won the other half. In this sedentary time, getting kids fit not only wards off childhood obesity, but sets them up for a healthy adulthood. A kids fitness program helps bone development and it [...]
Feel Like A Kid All Over Again
I am often enamored of my young children and their boundless energy, their exceptional flexibility, and their natural tendency to use and test their bodies. They play with balance like it’s a toy, climbing up high, standing on a small table, walking across a narrow curb. For Christmas this year I purchased a wobble board [...]
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