Active Start for Healthy Kids
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Giving children a good start in life is important. This includes instilling in them the need to be healthy by being active and eating well. Children need the parental encouragement to live healthily, as it is too easy in today’s age to be a couch potato, snacking on junk food rather than playing outside.
Active Start for Healthy Kids is a parental resource on how to teach 2 – 6 year olds to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle. The book was written by Stephen J. Virgilio, PhD, a professor and director of graduate studies at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. As a children’s health expert with more than two decades of experience, he provides strategies to keep children active and happy. His ideas are easy to implement, safe and inexpensive and most importantly, fun.
Included in the book are fun family physical activities, motor skill activities, yoga poses and games, dance and rhythm activities and other exercises for muscular fitness, flexibility and cardio endurance as well as nutritional guidelines for parents and caregivers and healthy kids’ recipes.
Each activity provides you with a description, objective and the materials needed.
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