Author: Richard Monette

Learn Through Active Play is a new, free program designed to support the ECEs tasked with educating our children.

Social media has taken a toll on kids’ mental health. Here are some things parents can do to try to alleviate their children’s anxiety.

What does the future hold for Canadian hockey? We dig into some positive—and concerning—trends in the sport.

Living through a pandemic has exposed us to chronic unpredictable stress. Here’s how you can help care for yourself and your mental health.

For coaches, when it comes to helping young kids love sport and movement, the secret is making playing and practicing fun.

In today’s world, kids have all kinds of nudges not to move. With this simple recipe, we can help them develop a love of physical activity.

Using this simple recipe, here’s how you can encourage physical literacy and a love of movement in your children.

When you “blend” these three ingredients, they become a “super-smoothie” that kids can’t resist. The recipe is called physical literacy.

According to early childhood education expert Dawne Clark, the key is to create an enriching home environment that invites physically active play.

Throughout hockey’s evolution, every change in the game has fueled debates between the “old guard” and those who have pushed for changes.

As parents and coaches, we must make youth sports fun for kids. Tim Hortons’ latest advertisement highlights this.

It’s important to understand how yelling in the stands might affect your child’s focus and his or her overall enjoyment of the game.

We don’t sell commercial ad space on Active for Life, but once in a while, we recognize advertising campaigns that promote important messages. This is the case with the Visa ad campaign developed for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which started earlier this month. The campaign video shows a series of female soccer players … Continued

But role models are not enough to change the lives of Canadian girls

Children today don’t get enough active play time. And that’s a health issue because it’s during active free play that children fill up on their daily requirement of daily physical activity. The problem is not that children have stopped playing, but that the nature of the games they play has changed. In this digital era … Continued

Meet Woody Belfort. An athlete who spreads joy all around. We’ve featured athletes that give back to society through charities. But Woody Belfort is an athlete who gives back in a different way.   Woody is a wheelchair basketball player on team Québec at the 2019 Canada Games in Red Deer Alberta. And Woody loves … Continued

Speed, skills, and fun are now the new normal

4 key elements to being a healthy sport parent

It’s time to stop debating who is responsible for making multi-sport programming a priority for kids under the age of 8. Here’s a list of actions we can all take.

How FIFA changes the ball each World Cup

How to make multi-sport the new normal

Editor’s note: This post was updated on April 17, 2020. There are an estimated 2 billion bicycles in the world. In fact, after walking, biking is the second most popular form of active transportation. And for good reasons. With the new technology in bikes, you can two-wheel yourself over almost any terrain and in all … Continued

Half-ice hockey helps with skills development

Let’s not overwhelm fledgling players