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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 two. Data published [...]

If you type into Google, ‘preschool fitness tax credit’, you’ll see 3 pages of information links on how parents can earn up to $500 of tax relief on fitness programming expenses for preschoolers. Sounds great, right? How can you get started? Well if you live in Canada you’re all set. If you live in the [...]

Preschool Fitness Programs = Increased Cash Flow

Now that the terror and frenzy is quieting down regarding a Swine Flu pandemic, we can all learn a valuable lesson. Actually it’s a lesson that we need to be teaching our preschool children. The following facts are preventative measures to avoid coming down with not just the Swine Flu, but any other flu or [...]

Welcome to our brand new blog, devoted just to preschool health and fitness. We want to hear all of your concerns related to the topic. In fact, for the first three who post a comment that we discuss further within the next month, we’ll give away a free downloadable “Building Healthy Lifestyle Habits Cookbook”. So, [...]