| Do you want your kids do better in school? Keep | | | | ready to really get things accomplished. Children are |
| them active physically. Never underestimate the | | | | the same. |
| value of physical fitness. Many preschool children do | | | | What can parents do? Begin to plan an activity each |
| not meet average fitness standards, which in turn | | | | day as soon as you have your baby. Take walks |
| make them prime targets for cardiovascular disease. | | | | outside, keep active inside. Turn off the TV and |
| It is up to parents to establish physical fitness as a | | | | move. Dance or crawl, roll and skip. |
| priority for preschool children and continue this | | | | There is evidence that watching TV or playing |
| involvement once kids go to school. Studies prove | | | | computer games for long periods of time puts your |
| that children who do get the proper amount of | | | | body in the flight and flee mode, thus shooting |
| exercise perform better academically. They also | | | | chemicals into your blood which eventually clog your |
| need the mechanical stress of exercise for proper | | | | veins. Turn off the TV and get your kids moving. |
| bone growth. | | | | If you want the best for your children, you must |
| When you think about yourself, when you sit for a | | | | allow them the opportunity to get exercise each and |
| long period of time you become tired. If you get up | | | | every day. What ways does your family promote |
| and go for a walk you come back refreshed and | | | | fitness? |