Kids in child care need healthy movement — and guidelines can improve their health

Best practice guidelines for healthy movement in child-care settings serve as a critical step to create more active and health-promoting child-care centres.
Nursery World

Physical Development, part 6: Taking a holistic approach to effective assessment

In the final instalment of her series, Dr Lala Manners addresses the tricky area of holistic assessment of physical development At Ore Church Mice Pre-School in Hastings, practitioners observe what ...
The Conversation

Before the bump: Can pre-pregnancy planning affect child development?

Sabrina Faleschini receives funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture. Ryan Van Lieshout does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...
The Conversation

Children’s movement affects health and development but research is lacking in Africa: here’s why

Associate Professor at MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand Catherine Draper receives or has received funding from the British Academy for the ...
CBC.ca

Effects of poor physical literacy in children carry into adulthood

One exercise physiologist says children in New Brunswick aren't learning the basic elements of play. Dean Kriellaars is one of the leading experts in a movement called physical literacy. "A child that ...
CNN

A father’s poor mental health may harm his children’s development, study finds

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. Mothers bear much of the ...

Opinion: Kids in child care need healthy movement — and guidelines can improve their health

Best practice guidelines for healthy movement in child-care settings serve as a critical step to create more active and ...