Ways to keep your middle childhood kid energized and happy

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There are several ways a family can keep their kid happy during this highly sensitive developmental time. For example, “major increases in strength and improvements in motor coordination do occur. These changes contribute to the child’s growing sense of competence in relation to his physical abilities and enhance his potential for participating in sports, dance, gymnastics, and other physical pursuits. Monitoring the child’s growth patterns and conducting periodic physical examinations to assess growth and development are important components of health supervision. Families can provide enormous support for healthy physical development. They can also work with communities to ensure that children have access to safe play areas, recreation centers, and parks, in addition to well-supervised play activities. For children to flourish, communities must value children’s physical growth and provide carefully maintained play facilities to help their bodies develop in a healthy way. Health professionals can augment their guidance on physical activity by advocating for such community facilities(pg 1). Kids don’t have to be playing video games or play outside to be happy, just having a healthy nutrition and lifestyle can go a long way and keep them healthy for the long term. A healthy kid is a happy kid and parents love that!

 

Source: https://www.brightfutures.org/bf2/pdf/pdf/MC.pdf

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