Sign Petition: Please Put Physical Fitness In Preschools
Please help us tell legislators, Michelle Obama and the 'Let's Move' campaign team how strongly we feel that daily physical activity should be part of the curriculum in every preschool or daycare center. Young children desperately need our help to show that we care about their health, future risk of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Too often childhood obesity prevention turns into intervention and overlooks preschool children all together. Please sign the petition below and ask others to do the same. Be sure to check your spam file for a confirmation email - you need to click the link in it to confirm you're a person (only 25 people who signed are listed below so don't worry if you don't see your name).
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I support the idea that daily physical activity should be part of a preschool child's day. Childcare centers need encouragement, incentives and financial help finding and instituting quality physical education experiences for all children enrolled at their facilities. American children are showing early signs of heart disease, diabetes and obesity as young as age two. We need widespread age-appropriate fitness programming for our youngest children.
Lisa Hrehor,
Vera Shaver,
Carole Reiss,
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colleen lammel,
Janet Lewis,
Lisa Washington,
Emily Hendrickson,
Rick Sieber,
Sujoy Birbanshi,
Christine Conetta,
Sarah Harvey,
Judi Cornish,
Valerie Wise,
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Loretta Kosanovich,
Christie Como,
Charles Sharper,
Kristen Neisler,
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Lori Cox,
Amy Stone,
sam roach,
Kim Launius,
Chris Baer,
This letter should be sent to the National Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance along with the request to have this agenda item placed on their web site as well as that of all the states. I will be forwarding this on to my colleagues in NY and to the Pre-school my daughter attends.
I could not agree more! Thank you so much for starting this petition Michele!
Start now for a healthy lifestyle! Parents, too.
I totally agree on this
I believe that introducing and encouraging a healthy lifestyle at an early age is essential and necessary for our families and for society.
I feel that preschools are a perfect place to create longterm healthy habits for children!
Learning about nutritional foods,the importance of sleep for a strong mind and body,and the teaching the joy of movement is a fantastic process of learning for our school systems to embrace.
Hi Kelli – you can use the link at the top of the page: http://kid-fit.com/wordpress/ and put it in a Facebook message to your members. Or go to our KID-FIT, P.E. Classes for Preschoolers page on Facebook here: http://bit.ly/819qrj Thanks for helping!
Those signing the petition, look for the confirmation email otherwise your name won’t be counted. You need to click the link in the email sent to you to verify you’re a real person.
Thanks!
Michele
Great job!!
The Key to Addressing the Long Term effects of Childhood Obesity is to provide Preschool Physical Fitness programs that address in a fun and educational manner the proper exercise, diet and resting habits in the foundation years so children will not depart from them when they grow older.