You can prevent childhood obesity by getting your child to have fun while moving. You can start with the three (3) easy to do activities here. Of course you know it is great to create healthy habits when children are young. But the question is how and what can I do as a parent or caregiver to make movement fun and get my child to exercise and move. One thing that will make it easier is if we start with the right mind set. Movement is something that we do naturally every day, we don’t associate effort with it. On the other hand exercise brings to mind images of sweat, exertion and hard work. So first we are going to put ourselves into the right frame of mind.

What comes up for you when you hear the word “exercise”. Just hearing the word exercise brings up images of sweat, lots of effort and hard work. Who wants to do that? Not me even and I do it practically every day. It’s kind of hard to get motivated and be in a positive mindset when you feel you are about to do something that’s not fun and also hard. But one of the reasons I can do it practically every day is because it’s fun and enjoyable. It doesn’t feel like work. You want to have the same type of experience with your child. You don’t want them to be conscious of all of the effort that is going into an activity. You want them to be so engaged and having so much fun that they don’t even notice the effort.

Listed below are six (6) ways that you can get your preschooler moving while having fun. Remember in addition to burning calories, movement also develops the brain. It will be easy I promise and you and your child will want to do it again and again. To keep it fun and interesting remember to add variety and variations so that neither  you or your child are bored.

MAKE IT A GAME

Having a problem getting your preschooler to pick up after themselves? Why not shoot a game of hoops with the dirty laundry or play soccer with the dirty launder by kicking it into a laundry basket turned on its side. Children love kicking especially little boys, but don’t leave the girls out of this one. Because laundry isn’t a ball it will not move once it’s kicked which means they will have to keep kicking it until it’s in the basket. Built in reps how cool is that. Put the laundry on a broom stick or similar object and have the laundry fly into the laundry basket. Leap over the laundry before putting it into the basket. You get the idea, make it interesting and fun for them.

DO IT IN SMALL CHUNKS OF TIME

You don’t have to schedule a whole lot of time for these activities, starting in ten (10) minute increments is fine. Have several activities planned out in this amount of time. These activities can be themed based like “doing the laundry” or just random, like let’s see how long we can stand on one leg. If you run out of ideas, just explain to your preschooler that you have to think of different ways to move your body and ask can they help.

NOTICE WHAT YOUR CHILD IS INTERESTED IN ALREADY

This can work in one of two ways if your child loves dancing or particular sports have them show you what they do in that sport and pretend to do that sport, you can have the actual equipment or not. In fact having them to pretend they have the props is even better because they are learning to use their imagination. The other way is to take an activity that is not normally associated with movement like cooking. You could pretend to make a healthy chicken and vegetable soup from scratch. Make sure you run and catch the chicken, you walk or jog to the farm, you feed the cow because you are going to need some milk to go with your soup and you also have to milk the cow. Ask them questions of what you should do next to engage them more, build esteem, pride and creativity and imagination.

As you can see getting your child moving is more than just Jumping Jacks and Push Ups and Sit Ups. You can burn calories right around the house and make it fun. Incorporate movement into your daily activities. Things like having a 10 minute movement or dance break where you just turn on the music and dance around the house. Cleaning your house to music and dancing a little in between turns a chore into a choice.

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Movement is what develops the brain. Movement is also an essential and important factor in preventing childhood obesity. You can combine these two facts to come up with a winning combination in eliminating excess weight. There are other factors that contribute to weight gain like food consumption and diet as well as emotional factors, but for the purpose of this writing we will be dealing with burning calories through movement and how you can optimize movement so that you develop your child’s brain.

It is recommended that children receive 120 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day, every day. Sixty of those minutes should be with an informed adult  with structured activities and sixty unstructured , like free play. During these times children should also have outdoor time. This serves a dual purpose in that the children will be receiving Vitamin D from the sun while exercising and moving their bodies.

One point that I want to make is, play is a vital part of movement. It is a child’s work and the way that they learn about themselves and their world and how they fit into it. So to adults things may look like play and seem useless. But an informed and knowledgeable adult knows that very important changes are taking place.

Growth and development on many different levels are taking place. They are growing socially by learning how to get along with others, share, work together to achieve a common goal, learn that they matter and their contribution counts. They are also learnng emotionally by experiencing how certain activities make them feel, whether it be fear, confidence and pride or curiosity. Cognitive and intellectual learning is also taking place as they learn about sequences and patterns and cause and effect.  Communication and creative skills are being developed and nurtured as well as physical development.

All of these factors contribute in developing a child that is smart in a lot of ways. Howard Gardner called this multiple intelligences.  So it is not a matter of whether your child is smart or not but how. The great thing about movement is that it is experiential and combined with music whether through dance or just as an accompaniment enhances the learning experience greatly for children and develops the brain.

One thing to remember is that all movement counts. Whether your child is writing, painting, building with blocks or legos, making mud pies, drumming, stirring, chopping or cutting or running, jumping, skipping , hopping or climbing, it all counts. So you can break it up into 10 -20 chunks of time through out the day. Just make sure that there is some vigorous movement  that gets their heart rate up. You also don’t need a lot of space. You can do a lot of things utillizing vertical space which a lot of people forget about. Things such as hopping, jumping, twisiting, touching head, shoulders, knees and toes all use vertical space.  So just use your imagination and that of your child and see what you come up with. Please come back and share it with us how your experience was and what happened. I’d love to hear from you.

Believe it or not being happy is one of the easiest things that you can do to prevent obesity, this goes for both adults and children. Something to think about huh? Never thought about the correlation right, but stop now and think about it. Do you know what makes you happy? Let’s break that down because so many people are just barely getting by and surviving, that happiness seems like a luxury.

Happiness makes you feel good plain and simple. So let’s start there what makes you feel good. Let’s take out anything that deals with having to put it in your mouth unless it’s a musical instrument or something. Yes food does make a lot of us happy but sometimes we are not happy with the results. So let’s look at other things that make us feel good.

Like things that make us smile or say “Awwwwww”, or “Yeeeeeaaaaaaaa!!!!!”, “YES!!!!!”, ” Yippe”, “Yahoo” and all those kinds of words. Experiencing appreciation and gratitude makes us happy. Enjoying something like a good book, good friends or good company, music or a movie or television show or physical activity. It doesn’t have to be a vigorous activity or even strenuous, but it does have to be something we can be absorbed in, something that consumes us. Stop to think about what things create this in your life.

It’s important to identify the things that cause you to be grateful, appreciative, absorbed or actively engaged in. It’s important because on a daily basis we are being pulled in all sorts of directions almost on a moment to moment basis. This causes us to constantly react and not initiate what we want or do what want. So doing the things that bring us joy, make us happy, give us pleasure are all pushed to the back burner because we are so busy reacting. The thing is we are not even conscious of this. We are not conscious that we are merely reacting and putting out fires and responding to the request of others. The whole purpose of the writing is to make you more conscious of this.

Why do I want you to become conscious of this. Because when you are constantly reacting and not doing the things that bring you joy and give you peace and make you feel yummy inside, you turn to food to do that for you. Food becomes love and happiness and joy and is used to feel in the gap, the emptiness or to avoid feeling feelings that we don’t want to feel.

I want you to become more conscious and aware of your feelings and experinece more happiness and joy because when you don’t feel those things you will notice this and it will cause you to explore deeper and not use food to cover it up, but to do something about those feelings so you can quickly get back to joy.

The great thing is how doing this benefits you and your child and prevents obesity. Happy people are less stressed and stress is a contributing factor to obesity. Happy people tend to not use food as comfort, love, or to fill any emptiness that’s felt. So try it and see. Do this for your child too. Allow time for them just to be, or play or just relax and not have a billion things scheduled. Try it and let me know how it turns out. I’d love to hear from you.

Getting babies to dance is very simple. Just put the music on and let them have a blast. Or as my friends across the pond say ” have at it!” But something more is going on than just moving and shaking.  Brain architecture is being created, which means this little baby is building intelligence and a better brain. They are also building the foundation for three essential elements for a happy and productive life.

By moving to music babies are expressing themselves and developing spatial awareness and learning about themselves and their environment. They are learning about the world and how they fit in it and what to expect from it. They are also having a great time.

Secondly they are  having a great time while learning is very important because fun makes the learning experience more pleasurable it is likely to be repeated. Although babies are naturally curious anyway, learning and experiencing the sensations in their bodies encourages them to want to learn more and be confident about learning. So dance away with your child. You will instill within them a love of movement and exercise which can lead to creating healthy habits for the future.

The third thing, but not certainly the last, is that your baby will develop a positive attitude about trying and exploring new things. They will develop an “I can do it ” attitude. Their confidence will grow and become stronger.

So you can shake and shimmie with your baby, clap hands, pat your knees, turn around, hands up and down and legs to for that matter. You can play patty cake, head shoulders knees and toes and the hokey pokey all to music and do them again and again and again. It is not complicated and you can make it up on the spot . Your child will love it and suck up the attention they are getting. It’s also a great method for bonding . So remember don’t make it complicated, just move and have fun.

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Getting your child to sleep whether they are infants, toddlers or preschool aged can be really challenging. It’s enough to make you want to google “how do I send a child back”. And although you wouldn’t do it even though you feel like that and really wish that there was a way to do that and then pick them up after you’ve both had a good night sleep, we all know that’s just wistful thinking. I ‘d like to share with 3 things that will help you with this dilemna. Consistency, Persistence and Planning go along way in insuring you a good night sleep for you and your child.

Being consistent means that you are committed to make an attempt to follow through with your plan every single time. Every single time that you are consistent you come closer and closer to achieving your goal of a good night sleep. You take into consideration that there may be times when you really don’t want to do this but you remember why you are doing it and that it will be a little discomfort now but in the long run it is going to pay off and be beneficial for everyone. You also consider the alternative if you are not consistent and the resulting tiredness and irritability for both you and your child, not to mention how lack of sleep affects your reaction time and ability to make good decisions will fuel and feed your commitment.

Persistence is the foundation of consistency.It is how and where consistency gets its power and strength to be able to be consistent. Without persistence, the willingness to deal with and overcome obstacles as they arise and keep moving toward your goal, consistency will not happen and you will not get your results. Persistence requires an informed mind and is all about mindset. Once you know the pros and cons and what might happen and are prepared for what might happen, you are able to be persistent. It’s having a “ no matter” what mindset and attitude. Not in an insane way, but in a way that says I know that there’s an answer to this and a solution that will benefit all.

With out a plan consistency and persistence have nothing to stand on. Think of consistency, persistence and a plan like you would a stool which enables you to sit down. For you the top is your result, so all three items are needed. I will list a few tips that you can include in your plan and at the end some resources that you can use to insure your success. A large part of this plan is planning your day, the schedule of you and your child and preparing yourself mentally. This will enable you to carry out the other parts of the plan.

THE PLAN

1. Make taking care of yourself a priority. You are going to take care of yourself in bite size chunks of time. One minute up to 10 or as much as you can get all will work fine. During that time you are going to close your eyes for as long as you can even if that means holding your child, and just breath deeply. Delegate and get support, remember you will probably have to ask for it. Placing the palms of your hands in a cupped position is very soothing to your eyes. Stay hydrated, plan simple meals that stretch, sleep when the baby or child sleeps, if you work on your lunch break. It is okay for your house to be a wreak, unless that drives you crazy, even then divide and conquer by doing only a little for piece of mind.

2.For infants try laying down your child awake on their back. Have comforting items such as a pacifier in the bed. Infants still like to be wrapped up so wrap them up. Also realize that infants have to be 12 to 13 pounds in order to keep enough food in them to sleep through the night.

3. For toddlers and preschoolers the earlier that you create and stick to a bed time ritual the easier and better. Plan this out ahead of time but also be flexible. Have them go to the bathroom the last thing before bed after a 2 oz cup of water which they probably will ask for. Bedtime should be 8pm, start winding down around 7pm with reading or some quite activities no television. For my daughter and I reading her favorite angel book worked like a charm. She chose the stories 3-5 of them each story was a page. We would take our time and she would find the angel who would be hiding somewhere on the page. Then we snuggled and said the family prayers and lights were out. We had night lights in her room so it was not pitch black.

I started sleep training her when she was about 18 months she had the fit of life. It  was absolutely horrible. I felt like the worse mother on the planet. It is the most horrible thing to hear your baby cry and not do anything about it. It is especially hard when they scream to the top of their lungs, I felt so bad. What helped me get through it were several things I had researched and read up on how to do it. I was prepared because I knew there would be some crying and hollering. I prepared my husband so we could have a united front and he wouldn’t feel terrible and give in. I also had a clear conscience because I we had a really strong bond during non sleeping hours playing and talking, me caring for her and breast feeding her.

4. Bed and room jumpers that climb out of the bed and jump out of their rooms, roam the house and eat and play and do God knows what else in the middle of the night while every one else is a sleep. Put a bell on their door so that you know will know when they are up and about. Uneventfully take them back to bed and tell them good night that’s it. You may have to do this a lot in the beginning, it will become less and less as time goes on. Remember to be consistent and persistent as well as calm. Do not play, bargain, or threaten just take them back to bed. Your tone and face should convey I’m not playing with you and stand there and hold your ground if you have to. It is okay to give them the “I’m not playing ” look. Once they see you are serious they come around.

Lastly, kids do not have to be asleep when you put them into bed. Kids and people fall asleep they don’t get to sleep, it’s a gradual process. So take this into consideration, they might not actually fall asleep until later but you want them to learn to do this on their own. Also know that there will be some tears. As you can see being consistent, persistent and having a plan by doing some research and/or reading, will help you in accomplishing your goal of getting your child asleep.

RESOURCES:

Google Jodi Mindell, PhD she is a pediatric sleep expert and author of “Sleeping Throught the Night as well as Kim West “Sleep Lady Shuffle”, http://www.parenting.com and http://www.parents.com and the national sleep foundation has some great information for adults.

Your experiences, feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated so feel free to comment and share what worked for you. There is no one size fits all  remedy but try what works for you and explore the resources given above. Be willing to tweak it a little if needed.

Kids are so funny and can give you such a great laugh with the things that they do and say. I’d like to share some of those moments with you now.

My girlfriend has an adorable 3 year old boy. Her and her husband went out to dinner with him recently. After being seated they removed all of the knives from the table, as a safety measure. Well he was not having that and yelled to the top of his voice:”GIMME BACK MY WIFE!”

His father just recently got braces on his teeth. After admiring his father’s braces he said to his parents:” I want bracelets on my teeth too.”

His mom was driving and trying to figure out which way to go. As she was deciding he screams from the back seat: ” GO TO NEW YORK CITY AND MAKE A LEFT!”

My friend and I were having such a good laugh.  It felt so good to have a break  and laugh. I marvel at how wonderful her little boy is. In addition he is also very smart. They were in the grocery store and he says to his mom: “Mommy that’s just stupendous!” Shocked his mom looked at him and then he replies “You know Mommy stupendous like awesome.

Wow!!!! isn’t that amazing that not only did he correctly pronounce the word but he actually knew what it meant. That is a joy and a pleasure to hear.

Just wanted to share a chuckle with you to brighten up your day. If you have any funny things that your child or children have done or said please share them with us we’d love to hear them. Please post your comments below.

Can you imagine? Some one that conditions others to be stellar players collapses and dies. Wow that’s a lot right, but what does that have to do with my child you say. It relates to your child because a simple thing like dehydration was suspected as playing a major role in his death. And by the way dehydration is a very major thing that we do not think about too often.

Research indicates that the average adult releases about 2.5 liters of water per day. This release of water is through perspiration or sweating, breathing, water is also used in digestion and water is also released when there’s a bowel movement or urination. This water needs to be replaced for our bodies to function on an optimal level.

Children are much smaller so they get thirsty and have more frequent requirements for water. The frequency comes into play because they can only hold so much in their little bodies. Although they are smaller they have the same biological functions as adults as far as losing and needing water for bodily functions.

If your body is not sufficiently hydrated the cells will draw water from the blood stream. This will make your heart work harder. While your heart is working harder the kidneys are not able to purify the blood effectively due to lack of water. Because the kidneys are not able to effectively do their job it passes the work load over to the liver and other organs in the body. All of this causes the body to be severly stressed.

Dehydration is the cause of headaches and other minor health conditions such as constipation, dry and itchy skin, acne, nosebleeds, coughs, and sneezing, sinus pressure and urinary tract infections. Because these organs get irritated due to dryness and loss of liquids, coughing and sneezing result.

This can all be avoided by simply drinking water. And it is very important that it is water. Soda, tea, sports drinks, coffee, koolaid and juices do not count your child needs water first. Yes I do understand that many of these things are made with water but your body still has to work to process these items where as water comes in to assist and support the working of the body.

I do acknowledge that there is water in fruits and vegetables also and they are a very valuable part of the equation in developing a healthy, fit and smart child and avoiding childhood obesity. But please realize that they are only a part not the whole thing. To be a healthy, fit and smart child your child needs proper nutrition, water and proper rest and exercise.

Be encouraged and start where you are and where you can. This is a process not an event and will not happen overnight. It takes time, patience, a plan and persistence to succeed. Remember you can do it. I’d love to hear how you are doing. Please feel free to leave a comment of how you are doing.

A really fun way to prevent childhood obesity is by letting your child lead you in performing exercises. Notice the operative word here “perform”. There is a vast difference between doing exercises and performing exercises. Your child naturally knows this and you used to too before you became a grown up  and life became so serious. Performing is joy for a performer, its fun and makes them feel wonderful. As a dancer, I know this first hand which is why I have stuck with it for over 27 years as a technically trained dancer and more than that as a shake your groove thing, have a funky good time like James Brown says  dancer.

So you and your child are going to enjoy the performance aspect where you are not conscious of yourself or an audience, but are just moving and having fun. There will be a bit of structure because you will be exercising but more from a kid’s perspective where you have an “I CAN DO IT” attitude and you attack this task with gusto and enthusiasm. You are not going to look at it as something “I got to do” or “should do”, don’t even look at it as work. This is the difference between performing and doing exercises.

Even in preschools now children are exercising so just start out asking them to show you exercises they do in school. If they happen to go to a school where there is no structured exercise or dance program or other physical actiivity, you can start out doing some and then switch roles.

One thing I know for sure, is that these days even kids that do not have command over the English language yet don’t mind telling you what they want to do and how it’s suppose to be done. Words like Barney, Elmo, Dora, Diego, Yo Gabba, although only one words gives you a lot of information. Even if you know nothing about dance or exercise it doesn’t matter, but I’m sure you know more than you think. When children tell you what songs they want, you are guaranteed some form of movement will occur if you play thoses songs.

In case you’ve forgotten your gym classes or maybe you never had a gym or fitness class, because it was taken out of the school system, here are a few ideas. Reach up then down, don’t worry if you can’t touch your toes, just get the directions right. You can do this to music or not but it’s much more fun with music. You can make your own song out of it. Reach up then down. Reach up then down. Turn around. Turn around  amd around and around.  Then repeat the entire thing all over again.

This is great for kids because the singing and ryhming are building language skills and are pre-literacy skills. Depending on their age ask them can they think of any words that rhyme with “down”. I’m sure they will be able to come up with a few. Be open to changing the order, first go down then up. Ask your child what they think you both should do.

Kids love pretending, so pretend that they are the teacher or adult and lead the class. Ask them to pick out the music.  Some other moves you can do are jumping your feet apart then together, lifting your opposite knee to touch your elbow, crossing the midline of the body. As a matter of fact this is a great move because it crosses two midlines simultaneously.

Remember to have fun, it doesn’t have to be for very long 10 minutes would be great. Even if you just danced to a series of songs in a row that would still be great because you are moving. Try to do this as often as you can. If you make this a habit you will be more successful at doing it.  Start small and build from there you can do it. Good luck and please let me know how it turned out. For more tips on keeping your child healthydownload my free e-book at http://www.healthykidsweightloss.com.

Making sure that your child begins to drink water early is a great way to ensure that your child gets proper nutrition and creates a great habit to prevent obesity in their future. Even though water has no calories or nutritional value it is still very valuable to your toddler. A good amount to probably start with is 10-15 ozs.

According to pediatricians you should not give a baby younger than 6 months old water. First, there is enough water in their formula and breast milk( 94 percent water). Also, giving a baby younger than 6 months water can interefere with the body’s ability to absorb the nutrients that are in both formula and breast milk. And although small sips will not hurt the baby, it is much better to be safe than sorry, and to check with your pediatrician.

There is also a consideration of water intoxication. This happens when too much water dilutes the concentration of sodium that is in the body. This upsets the electrolyte balance and causes the tissues to swell. Water intoxication can also cause seizures and even coma.

It is a good idea to introduce the child to water before juices and other drinks with sugar in them, even 100 percent fruit juice. After milk make that a child’s second choice. So when they ask for something to drink give them water first. Another good idea is even with 100% fruit juice you can add water to dilute it slightly.

If your child absolutely does not like drinking water try giving them items that are made of predominately water like actual fruits, soup, milk, smoothies  etc. Also try making sure the water is cold as children don’t really care for room temperature water. Vegetables are also an excellent source of water, even though it’s not as direct.

You want to make sure that you don’t over do it. Giving a toddler too much water tends to make them feel full and could limit the amount of food intake that contributes to their growth. Remember toddlers have small tummies that can get full really fast. So you don’t want to diminish their appetite and jeopardize vital calories and nutrients that they need for growing.

This is the same reason why you do not want to give a toddler more than 4 ounces of 100 percent fruit juice. In addition to not wanting to spoil their appetite you also want your child to get the fiber from fruits and the additional nutrients in the actual fruit itself. 

Lastly, make sure you are a good example also by drinking water yourself. It is so  much more effective and impactful when you model the behavior you want your children to have.

It is easier than you think to prevent childhood obesity using specific movements designed to integrate the left and right hemispheres of the brain. These movements are particularly  fun when they are done with and to music. They can be dance movements, sports moves or moves that you wouldn’t ordinarily think of as something that would help to prevent obesity and get kids moving.

Really you say? Yes, really I say, this is because all movement helps to develop the brain. When children are moving they are learning. This is why it is so important for children to be active and move and for parents and caregivers to limit the amount of screen time that children are experiencing in today’s electronic and digitally ruled age. Exercising, walking, dancing, cooking, building, gardening all of these things are contributing to the building of the brain.  These are all movements, they get the body moving which is something you want to get your children doing whether they are conscious of it or not.

Let’s just look at one of these topics that you wouldn’t ordinarily think of as a physical activity, like cooking. Cooking involves stirring, chopping, peeling, pounding, and  kneeding just to name a few. Take an activity like baking bread where you have to kneed and pound the dough and stir and mix the ingredients. How about rolling out the dough if you are making yeast based dinner rolls. This is a lost art that not too many families are involved in , but that can help to develop a child’s brain., all because they involve movement. 

How is this so? How is the brain developed by an activity like stirring you ask. It is accomplished by crossing a midline in the body. When a midline is crossed in the body for example the left hand touching the right shoulder,  connections occur in the brain that make pathways so that the left and right sides of the brain are connected. There are 3 midlines, imagine them like an axis that you saw when you did graphs in your math classes. Yes I know you are going ugghh I hated math but this is easy I promise. So imagine your body or your kid’s body with 3 lines and the belly button is zero, where all of the lines meet and intersect. So there is a line that goes up and down and splits the body in half vertically, a horizontal line that splits the body in half horizontally, think separating the top from the bottom half of the body and lastly there is a line splits the body from front to back.

Sorry that that took a whole lot of words but I hope you can see  the picture in your mind. If not draw it on your own body in 3-D.To imagine the line from front to back , imagine you have a string that you would thread through your belly button and out your back.   So remember when you move up and down, side to side and forwards and backwards with your movements and you use opposite parts of your body you are crossing midlines and integrating the brain.

This is important because the more and greater the pathways, the better the brain processes information. Think of the analogy of a two lane highway  travelling in opposite directions as opposed to a super interstate highway with 8 lanes, 4 traveling in each direction. Just as more cars can travel on the super highway. More information can travel and be processed by the brain, creating a better brain and smarter children not to mention healthier children when you add movement.

The great thing about all of this is that with small children you can make up great activities that take advantage of these movements like “Patty Cake”, “Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes” song “Simon Says ” to music or just put on some music and tell the kids to follow you. The objective is to get your kids moving, and although it is recommended that a child gets 120 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a day, getting them to move for 10 minutes in a fun activity will help in accomplishing this goal. You can spread these activities throughout the day.

Please keep in mind though that this 120 minute recommendation is for children in preschool. Sixty of the 120 minutes are for unstructured play and fun  while moving moderately to vigorously physically, while the other 60 minutes are with an informed adult or teacher for the purposes of physical development. In the latter 60 minutes kids are working on developing skills physically.

I would love you feedback and observations please feel free to comment. For a free ebook on keeping your child healthy please visit http://www.healthykidsweightloss.com