Topics: Child development

Ask questions to make sure they’re receiving the best, most well-rounded education possible

Sometimes (okay, most of the time), it’s impossible to even consider adding anything else to the schedule. But these are some simple—really!—ways to add movement to your child’s day.

Physical activity benefits everyone

Hiking provides opportunities to share great experiences with your kids

The intellectual, social, and physical development of children are intertwined

Help your child’s teachers and activity leaders by giving them our easy-to-use lesson plans

Beyond sleeping, eating, and cognitive development, babies need to move, too

Tummy time, reaching, and grasping are all skills that can be developed at this stage

Rolling, crawling and climbing are common activities to encourage at this stage

Help your child to develop their non-dominant hand at this age

It’s time to encourage safely crawling up stairs, balance skills, and playing

Developing physical literacy is more important to being active than genetics

Most kids often do better to wait until age six, seven or even eight

Here are four checklists to help you target the basic movement skills that your child should be developing at different ages, including suggestions on how to get them moving.

From gymnastics to skating, these sport skills will help your child develop physical literacy

These fundamental movement skills will help your preschool child become physically literate

Six fundamental movement skills that will help toddlers become physically literate

Explore these basic fundamental movement skills to help your infant become physically literate

Developing physical literacy optimizes both lifelong physical activity and athlete development

Physical literacy is when kids have developed the skills, confidence, and love of movement to be active for life. Here are some simple ways you can gauge the state of your child’s physical literacy.

Yet fitness a proven strategy to help thwart the negative behaviours associated with the condition

Children develop physical literacy by learning a wide variety of fundamental movement skills that allow them to enjoy many different physical activities and sports. Without physical literacy, they are less likely to stay active for life. Here are some ways you can support your child to become more physically literate. If you are an educator, … Continued

Tips on how to ration the amount of time children spend with TV, games and the Internet

From the day your baby is born, the brain begins developing the different neural networks that build your child’s sensory awareness of the surrounding environment and their relationship to it.