Children/Teenagers Articles

Getting Kids & Adolescents Excited About Exercise Children are not simply small adults when it comes to getting and staying fit; they present their own unique challenges in terms of exercise motivation and adherence. By Randi Rotwein-Pivnick, MA, MFT I It seems that every time you turn on the news these days, someone is proclaiming the benefits of participating in a regular exercise program. We'...

nutrition By Jennie McCary, MS, RD, LD tackling teens' eating disorders What fitness professionals can do to help adolescent girls and boys. The media's current focus on childhood obesity and its long-term health consequences is timely and justified, given that the number of young people who are overweight or obese is at an all-time high. But in a society already so preoccupied with physical appe...

specialties Understanding What Te e n s T h i n k A b o u t E x e r c i s e Author Marla Richmond shares how and why she started working with teens and what she's learned from these young clients. As a health and fitness educator and an exercise physiologist, I have enjoyed working with a variety of populations for many years. However, I began working with teens only recently. I knew the percenta...

BY CARRIE MYERS SMITH G e t S m a r t A b o u t H o m e S c h o o l P E Tr a i n i n g Did you know that during the 2000 to 2001 school year, 1.5 to 1.9 million children in the United States were home-schooled by their parents and that this number is increasing by 7 to 15 percent each year (National Home Education Research Institute 2002)? Why should this matter to you? Because in more than half ...