Are you concerned about your child's weight or diet? I was watching a TV program this week about childhood obesity. It introduced us to overweight toddler and older children. The…
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Parents and Liberation From Old Attitudes
Some things are simple, although maybe not easy. Childhood Obesity News has been talking about the magical and 100% free commodity known as attitude adjustment. Nothing could be simpler — you just flick…
Let’s Be Conscious of What We Teach
In the heyday of print magazines, one of the most often-seen cartoon cliches was the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman who would dump a heap of dirt on the carpet and…
How to Teach Kids Healthy Habits Through the Use of Play
Children love to play, so use play in as much as you can to teach your children healthy habits. Play can get your child off the couch and or computer…
Fun Fitness Hints for Children
Many children are turned off to exercising when the adults in charge forget that children like to play and have fun. The key to working with children is making the…
Parenting Overweight Children without Stressing them out
In 2018, in the United States alone, obesity affected 13.7 million children, according to the CDC. With being overweight comes a wide range of health problems which vary from physical health…
Childhood Obesity – The Best Ways In Which Parents Can Help
By Mary Bodel | Submitted On February 05, 2015 When the girls were growing up we worked hard to make sure they were healthy. At one point I even turned the back yard…
Preventing Your Child From Becoming Obese
By George O Odhiambo | Submitted On May 22, 2018 Obesity has become a significant problem befalling most Americans, and much worse, children have become the latest victims of obesity. Did you know…
How to Motivate a Pre-teen to Want to Lose Weight
Here are some helpful tips that can change the life of your tiny loved ones. There is a new menace in town – childhood obesity – and children between the ages…
How a Parent can Motivate a Teenager to Lose Weight
Adolescence is a critical age. It is the age when a child may very well develop health habits that will follow him or her into adulthood - both good and…
How to motivate children, ages 13-18, to exercise
As kids become teenagers, they can lose interest in physical activities and most parents are concerned about the drastic changes. But at this age, kids are juggling with a lot…
How to Motivate Children Ages 10-12 to Exercise
Kids are not too different from adults when it comes to physical activity, yet the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) reports that about 50% of boys and slightly…
How to Motivate Children Ages 5-9 to Exercise
Children ought to spend at least 60 minutes doing some form of physical activity every day. While one hour of exercise a day sounds simple, kids are often involved in…
How to Motivate Children 13-18 to Eat Healthier
The teen years bring lots of change and challenges. From acne to broken hearts, from drugs to lost homework, challenges abound. Getting teens to make healthy food choices isn’t always…
How to motivate children, ages 10-12, to eat healthier
You blink, and the baby in diapers is a ten-year-old, with definite opinions and (sometimes, maybe too often) a firmly made up mind about the negative value and utility of…
How to motivate children, ages 5 to 9, to eat healthier
“Uuuugggh. I don’t like vegetables! Why do I hafta?” Usually accompanied by a whine and a pout, this litany is familiar to any parents of young children. Its enough to…
Changes that Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity
If you have been keen, then you know that the number of children with obesity has been on a steady rise in the US. This has led to increased bullying,…
How can you encourage your children to eat healthy?
As parents, it can be hard to get the balance right when it comes to feeding your children. You may be a hard-working single mother that opts for time-efficiency over…