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Category Archives: Active Kids & Families
Happy to Announce My New Book!
As many of you are aware, I’ve been working on a book project for the last few years based on this blog and much additional research. For those of you who’ve offered feedback and suggestions to my blog posts … Continue reading
How Hard Could Coaching Ten Year-Olds Be?
Sam, the youngest and smallest player on our basketball team had been desperate to “bring the ball up” in a game all season. My husband Todd, Sam’s coach, was hesitant because he could see what Sam couldn’t. If Sam dribbled … Continue reading
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Tagged coaching kids soccer, coaching my child, coaching youth basketball, Frank Smoll, how to find a good coach for my child, kids recreational sports, positive sandwich method of feedback, Ronald Smith, sports psychologists for kids sports, sportsmanship for kids
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6 Inexpensive Ways to Weave Exercise Into Your Kid’s Life – And New Reasons You (and Her Teacher) Will Be Glad You Did!
Here’s my little secret: When my kids were young (maybe ages 2-7) I spent far too much time worrying about how tireless/active/hyper they were. In my own non-scientific playground research, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that my kids were … Continue reading
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Tagged bad sleepers, benefits of exercise, exercise and emotion regulation, exercise research results, fun physical activity for young kids, getting my kid to move, hyper kids, kid off the computer, kid off the couch, my kid needs more exercise, my kid never runs around, my kids won't go outside, physical kids, picky eaters
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Adding Joy
I’ve read in a number of places that if you want to rediscover the things you truly love to do, recall what you loved to do as a 10 or 11 year-old. At this age I was doing a lot … Continue reading
Bicycling to School Can Improve Learning
Last Spring “Bike to School” day took place in our town. I know, it sounds really straightforward and conjures up memories of one’s own childhood when every day was bike to school day. No one ever needed to create an … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD help in classroom, bicycling and joy, Bike to School day, Bob Nellis, children biking to school, exercise and math, Exercise balls at desks, how to get kids to bike to school, improved attention, improved memory in kids, John Ratey, People for Bikes pledge, Science of Exercise and the Brain, Swiss balls in classroom
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My Humble Warriors: Yoga with Adolescents and Tweens.
As I mentioned in my previous post, my worries about my older son’s looming middle school transition led me to enroll him in a yoga class. For approximately one afternoon I even believed yoga would solve almost all the problems … Continue reading
My Savasana Aha: Yoga Could Benefit My Middle Schooler.
About halfway through my son Stephen’s fifth-grade year, I started to worry about middle school. Basically this meant I began to dwell on my own middle school experience, since Stephen’s, of course, had yet to begin. As most adults would … Continue reading
Contagious Bicycling: Our Behavior Can Affect Others We Don’t Even Know
Remember those superlative awards given out senior year of high school – Most Individual, Most Spirited? The other day while engaged in a rather mind-numbing task, I designated some of these to my family members – Most Likely to Break … Continue reading
Sweet Spots: Helping Your Kids Find ENOUGH in Their Lives.