Si Live – Ann Marie Barron
It’s harder than ever to keep your kids on a healthy track these days, with digital entertainment keeping them sedentary and fast food tempting them at every corner. But it can be done, experts say, if parents follow a few tried-and-true suggestions. Parents are encouraged to make occasional compromises, but stay firm about nutrition, routine medical care and avoiding risky behaviors.
Thrive Global – Vimi Jain
If we had to keep all the drawings, craft works and hobby projects done by our children, it would be a clutter of humungous proportions. Every parent’s foreboding is how to dispose them without raising any red flags. Each creation is the child’s favourite, however ‘disposable’ it might have become! Now if we turn around the board and look at it from the child’s point of view, what they want is:
https://thriveglobal.com/stories/what-can-you-do-with-all-the-creations-of-your-child/
The Signal – Staff Writer
Every parent knows it can be a challenge to get kids to eat healthy foods. Serving piles of vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins might be our goal, but it might not guarantee that children will actually eat them. Registered dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner offers tips for upping the nutrients in family meals without your kids suspecting a thing.
https://signalscv.com/2019/06/sneaky-ways-to-get-your-kids-eating-healthier/
The Great Courses – Jonny Lupsha
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/bullying-kids-about-their-weight-may-be-making-them-gain-more/
Pysch Central – Traci Pedersen
Around age 9, many children stop engaging in physical activity just for the fun of it, according to a new Swiss study published in the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, followed 1,200 Geneva students ages 8 to 12 for two years. The team discovered that from the age of 9, the more positive, internally-driven reasons for exercising — it’s fun and good for your health — begin to get replaced with outside incentives: to get a good grade or improve one’s image with other people.
https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/06/06/by-age-9-many-kids-stop-exercising-for-fun/147553.html