kids and exercise

Parenting Tips & Advice

Get your kids movin' with outside-of-the-box moves

Do you find it really difficult to rouse your child off the couch to get some exercise? Studies show that more and more children are...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Parenting Guru: Are your kids a healthy weight?

It’s simple when you think about it. We gain weight when we take in more calories than we burn. “It’s what we call a positive energy...

Child Development & Health

Making fitness fun for the whole family

It’s pretty much standard knowledge now that fitness is essential to a healthy life. As such, we encourage our kids to participate...

Tweens, Teens & College

Should you encourage a fitness conditioning program for your teen?

You have an athletic teen -- but she seems to be prone to injury. You have a son who is on the edge of coordination and klutz. Which...

Child Development & Health

When should you introduce kids to formal exercise?

You work hard to keep healthy balance in your life, and that includes exercise. Not only is it a good example for your kids about...

Parenting How-to

How to exercise with your kids

Is your family in an exercise rut? Be an active role model for your kids with these 5 fun exercises you can do with your kids. Not...

Parenting How-to

How to make exercise fun for kids

One of the best ways to get kids to exercise is by finding ways to get them active without it feeling like actual exercise. From...

Child Development & Health

15 Ways to raise a healthy child

Raising a healthy child in today’s fast paced and high-tech world can feel like a constant battle, but it doesn’t have to be!...

Age by Age

5 Quick tips for healthy kids

The recipe for raising healthy kids may seem complicated in today’s world of video games, fast food and overscheduled calendars, but...

Child Development & Health

How yoga makes kids smarter

Between school, soccer, swimming and homework, kids are pulled in a million directions these days. We hear all the time about how...