I’ve been teaching preschool fitness since 1994.  During the early years I tried to rally and get the fitness industry and their organizing bodies on board.  But, they weren’t interested. The years went by.  I saw the focus on all kinds of gadgets, gimmicks and superbly choreographed routines.  Still no one in fitness was interested [...]

Tell us what you think will come out of Michelle Obama’s new campaign to fight childhood obesity.

I was disgusted but not surprised by a blog comment I read last week underneath an article about Michelle Obama’s new childhood obesity campaign.  It’s copied below or you can read it for yourself here: http://is.gd/7AsDh (all the way down, look for comment from saddle4545)  A parent stated the following:
“My daughter’s weight problem stated in [...]

Take this quick poll and to see how much we (parents and educators) are helping to keep our kids fit!

I doubt anyone has escaped the news surrounding childhood obesity this week. Especially the speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama detailing the staggering statistics. Statistics that those of us in the fitness and health industries have watched rise steadily over the past 20 years. Yes, now we have the White House on [...]

If you are a parent or preschool teacher, don’t think that your behavior is not important in shaping young children’s lives. Children look up to the adults around them and want to be like them.
Sometimes it seems as if we’re on the side of children’s fitness when in fact we’re sending messages to the [...]

Just because the holiday season is here, it doesn’t mean that healthy habits for your child(ren) need go out the window. In fact, it’s even MORE important at this time of year to eat right, exercise and rest. Children are more excited than ever which means they need to get enough exercise to [...]

One of my adult fitness students was telling me the other day about a project done with the local school district this Halloween.  Instead of children collecting, eating and getting sick from all the Halloween candy, the administrators came up with a great idea.
All children were encouraged to bring whatever candy they received during trick-or-treating [...]

No one wants to think that a child who has barely started life could already be showing risk factors for heart disease. But, it’s absolutely true. The data isn’t exactly new although new studies come out all the time mentioning the presence of serious risk factors in children as young as age [...]