Tag Archives: teenage fitness

Walk to School Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow is National Walk to School Day. We talked about this last year and I’m a little flummoxed that it’s here again so quickly. It feels like just yesterday that my daughter and I were strolling along with a few hundred others in the walk to school effort in our own neighborhood. She still has the sticker they gave her last year. She came home with the flyer from school yesterday and was bouncing up and down. She wanted to meet several of her friends and walk with them on the walk to school effort. I could go too, but … Continue reading →

Children’s Fitness: New Global Health Threat in the Form of Video Games?

I’ve talked about World of Warcraft here before and I’ve addressed problems from concerned parents about the amount of time their kids spend playing video games versus how much time they spend on physical activities. Today, I want to take this discussion a bit further and I have my own personal reasons for maintaining my level of concern and this concern is something that I am working on here in my own family. My seven-year-old nephew loves to play this game and plays it at his father’s house a great deal. We can limit his game time when he is … Continue reading →

Keeping Kids Fit

Trying to stay fit is hard enough, keeping your children fit is another tale altogether. Most kids hear the word exercise, roll their eyes and run the other way. They want to have fun. They want to play. They want to enjoy themselves. The word exercise is weighed on the same level as ‘clean your room’ and ‘do your homework.’ You’ll have a few takers and even the few who might think ‘exercising’ is fun will have to be convinced about how to do it. So the best thing a parent can do for their child is to mix business … Continue reading →