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Collection by National PTA
Whether it’s fall, winter, spring or summer, we’re all about living healthy lifestyles. How to advocate for healthy changes in nutrition and physical activity at your school. As well as simple and fun ideas you can use at home to stay healthy and active as a family.
Resilience: Teach Your Kids to Look Up When They Feel Down
All kids have cloudy days, but some get through them more easily than others. Although some people are naturally resilient, the ability to bounce back can be learned. Follow these seven steps to help your kids practice resilience every day.
Loving-Kindness Meditation for Kids
Meditation: Thinking good thoughts about themselves and others can help kids be happier and healthier. Loving-kindness is a meditation practice that consists of sending love, kindness, and compassion by directing positive thoughts, good intentions, or well wishes toward ourselves and others.
How Your Family Can Go Green at Home
Teaching your children to love the Earth and take better care of our planet starts at home. And it doesn’t take drastic—or costly—changes to be more green at home to make a huge impact on improving our environment. As you strive to reduce your family’s carbon footprint, here are some easy—and budget-friendly—tips you can do with your kids to help make a positive difference in the world.
Understanding Coronavirus: How to Prevent the Spread
It is very important to continue practicing healthy habits and the latest COVID-19 developments. While children are at home practicing social distancing, Lysol® and National PTA encourage families to practice every day healthy habits to help prevent the spread of illness.
Stay Healthy with these Routine Healthy Habits
During the spread of COVD-19, families must be extra vigilant and consistent in their daily routine healthy habits to stop the spread. It’s also important to maintain a healthy lifestyle by getting plenty of sleep, drinking lots of water, eating a balanced diet and staying physically active. Talk to your kids about why this is important and then you can have fun putting your routine healthy habits into practice with these activities.
Helping Teens Cope with Missed Milestones
The coronavirus pandemic has upended classes and other school activities. Now, teens are mourning the loss of these missed milestones, like prom and graduations that mark the end of the school year. Here’s APA's advice on how to help teens through this time.
Health Starts At Home
Health is something you have to work at. Teach your kids how to live healthy and happy lifestyles by including them in healthy decisions. Learn how! #HealthyLiving
Here's What Video Game Addiction Looks Like
Think your kid plays games too much? We explore how to tell if your kid is suffering from a gaming addiction.
Gardening With Kids
Learn how teaching your children how to garden affects your child's brain, body and soul. #Gardening
Children's Dental Health
It's not always easy or fun to teach kids the importance of proper dental hygiene. We explore the ways in which dental care as children affects us as adults.
How to Stay Healthy Around Pets
Check out our tips to help you stay healthy around your beloved pets!
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