This combination parenting and personal finance book helps parents teach their children key money skills--such as saving, spending, budgeting, investing, building credit, and donating--that they'll need to become financially secure adults. In this updated edition of Raising Financially Fit Kids, Joline Godfrey shares knowledge gleaned from two decades of preparing children and families for financial independence and stewardship, philanthropic effectiveness, and meaningful economic lives. At the heart of the book are three big ideas: • Financial education is not just about the money; it’s about building great families and raising self-confident kids who have the tools to realize their dreams. • Financial sustainability means living within one’s means and acquiring skills to create and manage human and financial capital. • Giving wisely is a global citizen’s responsibility. Designed for parents, grandparents, mentors, advisors, and educators, Raising Financially Fit Kids uses ten core money skills applied across five developmental life stages: children, tweens, middle schoolers, high schoolers, and twenty-somethings. Each stage includes age-appropriate activities that make financial fitness fun, from mall scavenger hunts to financial film festivals. In this global economic landscape, we all need financial fluency. Whether your child is five, fifteen, or twenty-five years old, it’s never too late to teach financial literacy. Raising Financially Fit Kids prepares your children for the complexities of living in a global economy and helps your family up your game from good to great.

Show how to choose the right kind of exercise and meals, with easy-to-follow activities and recipes.

This book is loaded with motivation and practical information about blending exercise and healthy eating naturally into today's busy lifestyle. It is a guide for parents, teachers, youth leaders and anyone who wants to enhance the life of a child by introducing him or her to enjoyable exercise. From the Contents:? A guide for parents, teachers, youth leaders on how to make exercise fun? Research showing how fit kids learn better, are more successful? Research on how the body, bones, etc. respond positively to exercise? Activities by age group? Research on Childhood obesity and what can be.

The feeling of belonging is something that everyone strives for, and this book teaches kids how to incorporate that feeling into their lives. It tackles what it's like when you feel like you belong to a group or family or team, and what it's like when you don't. It addresses what it feels like when you don't fit in, or when others don't want you around. This book teaches kids how to belong to themselves and how that helps them belong anywhere.

Written for parents concerned about their children's overall fitness, Dr. Rob's Fitness Guide for Kids addresses the importance of both food and physical activity in keeping children healthy. Gotlin sees sports, with its emphasis on playing by the rules, being a good teammate, winning and losing with grace, and working toward a common goal, as an essential route to physical, psychological, and social health. This book helps parents choose a sport or activity in which their child can find comfort and confidence. In addition to outlining the benefits of various team and individual sports, Gotlin provides detailed information about the equipment needed, safety issues, and how to create a supportive environment for young athletes. Also included are exercises developed specifically for children, age-appropriate fitness and calorie guidelines, and delicious, dietician-developed meal plans and sport-specific menus that instill a lifetime of good eating habits.

Addressing the childhood obesity crisis that is facing today's youth, this simple and effective guide to exercise and nutrition provides a comprehensive plan for encouraging children to live healthier, more active lifestyles. Not limited to diet alone, this guide examines the psychology behind sports and how parents can help to positively encourage their children to participate. Reducing the use of technology, keeping healthy sleep patterns, minimizing snacking, and staying hydrated are topics also addressed in this handbook, which helps parents make healthy lifestyles fun and exciting.

One child in five weighs at least twenty percent more than his or her ideal. However, nurturing physically and emotionally fit kids is easier than we think. Eileen Behan, a registrered dietitian for more than twenty-five years, has seen parents' worst mistakes concerning food and their kids, and has compiled all the advice we need to combat -- and undo -- damaging habits in this remarkable guidebook. "At the end of the year we all wanted to take pictures...but Betsy wouldn't let us because she said pictures make her look fat." -- a fifth-grader Discover: how to tell if you child is actually overweight how to recondition you child's eating patterns by changing your own attitudes toward food how to squelch young girls' body image disorders with confidence and self-esteem the traps laid out by foods marked "lite," "healthy," "contains real fruit" how to implement a family meal plan that emphasizes healthy foods kids will like as well as mealtime strategies that make eating a pleasure delicious and nutritious recipes for families on the go. "My wife wants to control what our daughter eats, but I think she is making her crazy." -- Father of an eight-year-old

The world our kids are growing up in is very different to the world we grew up in. The gap is so much wider than between us and our parents. We grew up with nothing, so our parents worked hard to give us everything.. Our own generation's motto of "we deserve everything" has turned its greedy eyes to our kids, and they stand no chance. Right now, they are fending for themselves, in a world that sees only one outcome for them. Victims of greed. Unless us parents do something about it. We now need to work hard to protect our kids from our ourselves... Authors Sharny and Julius combine their years of expertise coaching junior sport as well as the compassion that comes with having their own 5 children, to bring a book that the world needs right now. This book will help any parent wanting a no bull blueprint for creating perfectly balanced, fit, healthy happy kids.

How to take control of your family's eating and exercise habits, with expert advice, easy-to-use planners and inspirational ideas, Learn how to assess and monitor your child's weight and improve their overall health and well-being in both the short and long term, Contains a wide range of step-by-step exercise routines to get your children moving, along with tips for everyday activities and fun games, Features more than 100 healthy, simple and delicious recipes, from soups and appetizers to main meals and even some sweet treats Book jacket.

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