Ideas for Better Children's Health - Samples

Help for Teens: Stories, Information and Help
This site gives teens recovery stories so they can learn how other teens coped with drug and alcohol abuse. It also offers memorials of teens who died from drug and alcohol abuse. A section called Help for Teens gives teens advice about how to tell if a friend has a drug problem, how drug users can get help, how to talk to a friend about a drug problem, what to do if your friend has a drug problem, why people can’t handle drinking and drugs.

Help Your Child Eat Healthy Foods and Stay Healthy
Healthy eating will not only help your child’s body grow and develop correctly, but you’ll instill lifelong healthy eating tips that will help your child take care of him or herself. This site gives tips on foods your child should eat, as well as sources of calcium, simple snack ideas for kids, helping overweight kids lose weight, and helping your child become more active. A section on how kids eating habits are formed is included.

Developing Your Child’s Emotional Health
It takes a lot of patience along with good judgment and warm, nurturing relationships to raise emotionally healthy children in today’s world. This site explains some of the psychology associated with kids emotional health, including Dr. Erik Erikson’s stages of development, which include trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, and initiative vs. guilt. The site talks about choices and limits, and how to set boundaries with your kids, whether it comes to how they act to what healthy foods they should eat.

Children’s Physical Development and Exercise
Many children today aren’t getting the proper exercise they need, so this article aims to give parents tips to increase their child’s physical activity. This article explains how children’s gyms are important, and popping up all over the place. Aside from that, parents can swim together; join a bowling league, ski, or hike. While an indoor gym for kids is a great idea, it also helps to get activity in nature.