10 Benefits of Your Child's Physical Activity

Study: Recreational physical activities increase odds of academic success

When students spend more time in physical activities, they are more likely to succeed academically, study finds.

How Physical Activity Affects Academic Performance

There is a link between academic success and increasing the amount of physical activity students have throughout the day.

How To Get Kids To Love Vigorous Physical Activity

Can Physical Activity Help Kids' Grades?

While physical activity is known to improve children's physical fitness and lower their risk of obesity, new research suggests it may also help them perform better in school.

Has the focus on physical activity ruined playtime for kids?

The researchers found that physical activity is only one part of what kids like about playing, and that regimented physical play built around fitness doesn’t satisfy all needs for many kids, or meet their own definition of "play." "By focusing on the physical activity aspect of play, authorities put aside several aspects of play that are beneficial to young people's emotional and social health," said the study’s supervisor, Professor Katherine Frohlich.

Children with Special Needs: Benefits of Physical Activities and Adaptive Sports

Advice for parents of children with special needs on the benefits of physical activity, what's available, how to start, what schools must offer your child.

Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities

Six key rules for student engagement include making it meaningful, fostering efficacy, autonomy support, collaborative learning, establishing positive teacher-student relationships, and mastery orientations.

Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate

Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen.

Let Kids Fidget in Class: Why It Can Be Good For Those with ADHD

There's a correlation between physical movement and mental work, new research suggests. For kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, that may mean bouncing a knee helps sharpen their focus.

What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child?

New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.

What to do when your child wants to quit an after school activity?

It's not uncommon for children to get bored with a once prized activity like music lessons or a sport. It's a tough decision for parents.Here are some tips.

Learning to Move, Moving to Learn?

What is the relationship between physical activity and educational success?

Activity Ideas for the Not-So Sporty Kid

Keeping children active when they just aren’t into athletics

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Why developing physical literacy is so important for kids

New research highlights the importance of fundamental movement skills, and shows why some kids gravitate towards sedentary activities.

Why You Should Take Your Kids Rock Climbing

A recent study found that two-thirds of children do not do enough physical activity to sufficiently aid their growth and development.Rock climbing offers a huge range of benefits to children, ranging from lessons around overcoming challenges and dealing with failure, through to promoting healthy life choices.Further, climbing can be a great way to spend some ... Read more

How to Encourage Kids to be Physically Active

Physical activity helps stimulate the senses and build muscle strength and endurance. Get kids moving with these few easy steps!

Tips to help integrate movement into learning

Educators can integrate more physical activity in middle-grades classrooms in a mindful way, asserts Cheryl Mizerny, a sixth-grade English teacher. In this blog post, she shares several tips to help get students moving, including performing skits and doing activities outside.