Health

Kids' Sports and Fitness: Summary and Next Steps

In a time when obesity is becoming an epidemic, it’s important to teach your children the basics of fitness.

Cheering on Your Child

Cheering for your children while they participate in sports is a great way to show your parental support—find out how to do it respectfully and effectively.

The Benefits of Children's Sports

Kids’ sports have many benefits, both mental and physical, for developing children. They even have benefits for adults.

Motivating Kids to Exercise

Learn how to encourage your kids to be physically active, even if they aren’t too excited about it at first.

Frequent Questions and Concerns about Kids' Sports and Fitness

Find the answers to common questions and concerns about kids’ sports and fitness.

Kids' Sports and Fitness: An Introduction

For kids to be healthy, both now and in the future, they need to develop good exercise habits and get involved in physical activities.

Summer Sun Safety

Summer has set in with its usual severity.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet

Kids often ignore two aspects of summer: sunburns and heat exhaustion.

Healthy Habits

Children growing up in North America today are at risk of being the first generation in modern memory that will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
—Dr.

Fit, Fun, Fabulous Families

Have you been thinking about getting in better shape? Looking for fun, low-stress ways to connect with your kids? Well, “tricking” yourself into exercise might be just what the doctor ordered.

Fit Fitness into Your Life

_Fifty years ago people finished a day’s work and needed rest.