Getting adequate amounts of exercise is important for kids' overall growth and health. Here are fun ideas to get children up and moving.

Teaching your kids habits that support mental well-being can help them build coping skills and may lower their risk of future ...

InPACT at Home videos significantly boost children's physical activity energy expenditure, highlighting their role in ...

Now that kids are back in school, families are settling into their new routines after a long summer break. It can certainly ...

In the new exercise guidelines for Americans, children get their own section. We don’t always think about how much our kids move around, but we probably should. More exercise means better sleep and a ...

Twenty minutes of exercise may help kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) settle in to read or solve a math problem, new research suggests. The small study, of 40 eight- to 10-year ...

It’s a win-win for parents and kids: if you’re having trouble convincing your kids to follow the government’s advice to get moving, a new study suggests you can just leave them alone with their video ...

Parents may not realize how much influence they have over kids' exercise habits. Feb. 17, 2011— -- There's been alarming talk for years about the rising rate of childhood obesity in this country.

The logic seems pretty simple: if you eliminate gym class, school kids will get fatter. In 2006, a blue-ribbon commission released a worried report about the precipitous decline of physical education ...

Fourth graders from 11 schools across central Nebraska learned about healthy living during the 21st Nebraska Kids Fitness and Nutrition Day.

Outside of team sports and oft-dreaded physical education classes, exercise for kids has always been a catch-as-catch-can affair. And nowadays, drawing any youngster from ever-present computer screens ...

Amaneigh Stevenson is an active kid who loves gymnastics and bouncy houses. A member of her care team developed a guard that ...