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Activities for Kids

Posted on 07 Mar 2014 in childhood obesity, kids activities | 0 comments

I have been teaching young children for over 8 years now and in that time I have noticed a distinct decline in movement skills and motivation in young people to get out and enjoy the outdoors. I understand that many parents are time poor and with the advances in technology it is very easy to […]

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Why are children not exercising?

Posted on 28 Feb 2014 in childhood obesity | 0 comments

I recently read a factsheet from the Sunrise website  http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/factsheets/article/-/9776427/kids-not-playing-outside-anymore/ about why children do not exercise anymore. The article by Planet Ark, compared the amount of time parents spent outside playing when they were young, to children these days. The alarming fact was that only 13% of children said they played outside more than inside. Why […]

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