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This is a delightful, easy to read book...
written for homeschooling families looking to supplement their PE programs with a wider range of activities that can be used to teach children fitness, movement and sports skills. By a physical education instructor and sports coach
The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book by physical education instructor and sports coach Guy Bailey is a very highly recommended guide for homeschooling parents which is filled from cover to cover with games and activities designed to teach children fitness, sports skills, and the joy of exercise. From simplified versions of traditional favorites such as basketball, football, soccer, and softball, to variants of tag, rope jumping, and playground games such as kickball, The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book is an invaluable and "user friendly" resource which is dearly needed in a world overly saturated with television and other passive entertainments. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. Home Schooling    4. Physical Education    5. Physical education for children    6. Education / General   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography - Sports & Recreation    3. Children's 12-Up - Biography / Autobiography    4. Children's Books/Young Adult Biography    5. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    6. Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Martial Arts & Self-Defense    10. Martial artists    11. Motion picture actors and actr    12. Motion picture actors and actresses    13. Physical fitness    14. Sports & Recreation - Martial Arts   

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Excellent book on spina bifida
This book is a wonderful book for anyone who knows of someone dealing with a child or teenager with spina bifida.Its very organized, informative, and even has several photos of kids with spina bifida.I highly recommend it!

Great for parent of a child with spina bifida
I am the nurse practitioner in a spina bifida clinic. I give this book out to all new parents of children with spina bifida.Many of them tell me that they refer to this book often.

Must have.
Great help as new parents of a child with SB. Easy to read and well organized. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abnormalities    2. Children with Special Needs    3. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Care Issues    6. Medical    7. Parenting - General    8. Physical Impairments    9. Spina bifida    10. Spine    11. Child care & upbringing    12. Coping with disability    13. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Acupressure & Acupuncture    2. Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy    3. Alternative Medicine    4. Child    5. Consumer Health    6. Diet / Health / Fitness    7. Massage    8. Massage for children    9. Medical    10. Pediatrics    11. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    12. methods    13. Health & Fitness / Massage & Reflexotherapy    14. Paediatric medicine    15. Physiotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Children's All Ages - Fiction - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Kindergarten    4. Concepts - General    5. Exercise    6. Fiction    7. Health & Daily Living - General    8. Interactive Adventure    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Movie Tie - In    11. Physical fitness    12. Specimens    13. Toy and movable books    14. Juvenile Fiction / Movie or Television Tie-In   

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Optimal Learning Readiness
An absolute must for anyone involved in pre- and foundation phase education.Cheatum gives a concise and clear understanding of how the human mind is formed though movement and how easy to do activities can help the child attain optimal learning readiness.

A great resource...
I really enjoyed this book.The authors know how to explain their material without using a lot of technical jargon.If you have read and enjoyed "The Out of Sync Child", I would recommend this as Part 2.It goes a little more in-depth and has lots of great ideas for activities. Very Smart! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Activities    2. Children with Special Needs    3. Creative activities and seat w    4. Curricula    5. Curriculum Materials    6. Education    7. Education Of Exceptional Children    8. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    9. Learning disabled children    10. Perceptual-motor learning    11. Problem children    12. Special Education - General    13. Sports Medicine    14. Child care & upbringing    15. Fitness & diet    16. Sports & Outdoor Recreation    17. Teaching of those with special educational needs   

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A Wonderful Resource!
Todd Hollander has done the parents of American children a wonderful service by writing this book!It presents the data clearly and objectively in a very readable fashion.He explores all of the factors involved in our childhood obesity epidemic and offers interventions and lifestyle change tips to help families make progress with this problem.I am a pediatrician who sees children in a Cholesterol Clinic and am currently recommending "We're Killing Our Kids" to my patient families.I would urge you to read this book if you have an overweight or obese child or if you are concerned about the childhood obesity epidemic.There are things you can do to turn the situation around!
Great Insight
Mr. Hollander's book was so captivating I read it in one sitting.
Required reading in the fight against obesity
I will be recommending this book to all the parents of children at risk for obesity in my practice.I found the data presented compelling and accurate and the style of writing perfect for the lay reader.Hollander has done a great job tackling this modern epidemic and presents a practical stepwise approach to change.
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Subjects:  1. Family & Relationships / Parenting    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health & Fitness / Weight Loss    4. Health/Fitness    5. Reference    6. Family & Relationships    7. Obesity in children    8. Overweight children    9. Parenting    10. Physical fitness for children    11. Weight Loss   

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Masterful
This book is ripe and juicy with attractive photographs of all kinds of people, doing all kinds of physical activites and making healthy food choices.Each age group has specific topics and content identified for physical activity and nutrition. It is written in an accessible way and should easily promote the elusive behavioral changes so necessary for dealing with obesity and related diseases.

A good book for moms-to-be
Fit Kids makes the perfect baby shower present. It will help moms and dads from infancy through the teen years and includes healthy recipes that kids can help make. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Development    2. Children    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Diets - General    5. Exercise    6. Family And Child Development    7. Health & Fitness    8. Health - General    9. Health and hygiene    10. Health/Fitness    11. Healthy Living    12. Physical Fitness    13. Physical fitness for children    14. Physical fitnessn    15. Health & Fitness / Nutrition   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. Games    4. Holidays    5. Physical Education    6. Physical fitness for children    7. Study and teaching (Elementary)    8. United States    9. Physical education & sports studies    10. Primary / junior schools    11. Teaching of a specific subject   

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For people with kids over 9
I had great expectations for this book.I respect Dr Cooper and his work.Unfortunately, I was disappointed with the book.There are 115 pages of nutritonrelated information mostly suggested menus and recipes - thereare lots of good nutrition books for kids.The fitness evaluations weremostly for kids 10 and older.He recommends an active lifestyle andsports, but that's not worth the money to me.I'd say check this book outat the library for the fitness test information but keep your money in yourpocket on this one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Exercise    5. Exercise for children    6. Health - General    7. Healthy Living    8. Nutrition    9. Physical fitness    10. Physical fitness for children    11. Sports   

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Yogi
I take teen classes with Mary Kaye and enjoy them a lot! All of my family and friends have purchased the book and love it! I think the book is a great way for kids to learn yoga. The classes and the book combine balance poses and hip openers and end with relaxing poses. I always feel great after yoga, and I am glad I discovered it early in my life!

Yoga with ENERGY
WOW!!Finally a great yoga book for kids. Some of the other instructional books out there seem boring to my children...and me! This book is so well done.Some of my kids do yoga regularly and some don't, but they all enjoy looking at this book and trying the yoga poses.The pictures are very self explanatory. For the non-readers, the children are able to look at the pictures and do the poses.For the older children, they can see how to do the pose and then read an explanation in very easy to understand text.We look forward to another book from this author for teens!!! Namaste.

We Love Yoga!
My children are too young for the yoga classes offered in my area (and there are very few studios).This book was suggested by my sister who lives in the NE, my 3 and 5 year old children love it!It is a great resource for learning the basics of yoga at home.It's also something different and fun for my kids who are now tapped out on the "sameness" of the classes offered....gymnastics, ballet, etc.We now love yoga! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body, Mind & Spirit    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Grades 2-3    5. Children: Kindergarten    6. Hatha yoga    7. Health & Daily Living - Fitness & Exercise    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Physical fitness    10. Juvenile Nonfiction / Body, Mind & Spirit   

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Crucial book for ambitious parents
Rae Pica is very passionate about her subject, and provides the data to back up her beliefs. Parenting is so difficult, not just because children are so impressionable and innocent, and yet so demanding, but also because parents themselves cannot help but regress to their own childhoods. Books like this help to keep parents sane, reminding them that their good intentions will not heal the human race until they are aligned with the natural and healthy development of each individual personality that is in their care. This book provides much evidence of the importance of a more intelligent approach to mental, emotional and physical development than is currently employed in the vast majority of US schools. The games and suggestions she gives are easy for anyone to employ, no matter how tired or overwrought a parent may be! I'm especially pleased about her comment on swimming -- my niece was a competitive swimmer from a very young age, and although she was nationally ranked for her age, development of her muscular & bone structure became problematic (and expensive!) during her teens. (Why no one mentions this when they talk about how Michael Phelps can't walk or run properly is beyone me!) But not only parents should read this -- it's so easy to understand, that I'd give it to the babysitter too... they have just as much influence on your child as anyone else.

An excellent guide to encouraging physical activity
If you are interested in encouraging your child to adopt a more active lifestyle, you will want to add this book to your parenting book library. Rae Pica has written a well-researched, parent-friendly guide to promoting physical fitness in children. She starts out by talking out about the reasons parents will want to encourage their kids to become more physically active (e.g., the scary childhood obesity stats that stare us in the face every time we open the health section of a newspaper these days) and then warns of the perils of forcing your child to become a 'superkid' (a child who lives and breathes sports 24/7). She then goes on to talk about the important role parents have to play in promoting physical activity in children and offers some concrete strategies for doing so. The result is an excellent guide that every parent who is serious about combatting the childhood obesity crisis should own.

Hooray!An inspiring "How To" reference for ALL parents
I have half a mind to buy 10 copies for friends and family.Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Care/Parenting    2. Child Development And Rearing    3. Child Psychology    4. Children    5. Cognitive Psychology    6. Cognitive learning    7. Consumer Health    8. Diet / Health / Fitness    9. Exercise    10. Family & Relationships    11. Health and hygiene    12. Movement education    13. Parenting - General    14. Physical fitness for children    15. Physiological Psychology    16. Advice on parenting    17. Parenting    18. Sports & Outdoor Recreation    19. Child Development   

Subjects:  1. Child athletes    2. Children    3. Diets - General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health - Nutrition    6. High school athletes    7. High school students    8. Nutrition    9. Nutrition And Diet    10. Physical Education    11. Secondary School Athletic Programs    12. Sports    13. Sports & Recreation    14. Training    15. Adolescents    16. Fitness & diet   

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a must have!
This book makes it easy for anyone to teach basic sports skills correctly.It also offers games to help improve the students' acquistion.Another benefit of this book is that it is appropriate for both typical students and students with disabilities.I teach students with autism, and the manner in which the skills are broken down is perfect for my students. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body Movement Education    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Movement education    5. Physical Education    6. Physical Education (General)    7. Physical education for childre    8. Physical education for children    9. Sports Medicine    10. Fitness & sports training    11. Fitness training    12. Physical education & sports studies    13. Teaching of a specific subject   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    2. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    3. Health & Daily Living - Fitness & Exercise    4. Juvenile literature    5. Physical fitness    6. Physical fitness for children    7. Weight training    8. Weight training for children   

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He is so strong that he always breaks things.
This is the story of Mr. Strong.Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    2. Children: Kindergarten    3. Fiction    4. Humorous Stories    5. Juvenile Fiction    6. Physical fitness    7. Social Issues - Values    8. Early learning / early learning concepts    9. Humour & jokes    10. Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / General   

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Great overall fitness book
I am currently in my Universities Army ROTC program and was just looking for a new way to increase my PT scores and break the monotony of our training regimen.This book's program will improve your overall fintess (military geared of course) and the ability to contact Stew himself is just awesome.

Excellent
I have ordered two of Stew's books now and each of them have helped me improve my PT scores for the military.I recommend any book that Stew has wrote.I am sure you will improve just as I have.

Fitness Bible
This is a great book if you are in decent shape and want to take your game to the next level, so to speak. It has a yearlong program that I think helps both in the short term and over a period of years. All the pictures and explanations make it so you can do the workouts even if you've never heard of a pushup before reading the book. Also, this program is less dependent on weight machines than others, until you get to the powerlifting phase. I plan on joining the military and these workouts are perfect for that kind of cross-training, non-specialized fitness. I've been doing Stew Smith's workouts for a few months now and I've made a yearlong plan combining this book and Smith's other "The Complete Guide to Navy Seal Fitness." If all goes as planned, I could see myself using this program for the rest of my life. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    2. Consumer Health    3. Education    4. Exercise    5. Football    6. Football - General    7. Physical Education    8. Secondary School Athletic Programs    9. Training    10. American football    11. Fitness training    12. Sports & Recreation / Football   

Subjects:  1. Aerobics    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Physical education and training    5. Physical fitness for children    6. Study and teaching    7. Testing   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    2. Eating Disorders - General    3. Health & Daily Living - Diet & Nutrition    4. Health & Daily Living - Fitness & Exercise    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Healthy Living    8. Life Stages - Teenagers    9. Nutrition    10. Nutritional aspects    11. Physical fitness    12. Physical fitness for children    13. Teenagers    14. Body & health    15. Family & Health    16. Health & Healing   

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Subjects:  1. Christianity - Christian Life - Physical Health    2. Christianity - Education - Children & Youth    3. Diets - Weight Loss    4. Inspirational - General    5. Religion    6. Religion - Christian Life    7. Weight loss    8. Christian Living/Practical Life/Diet & Health    9. Church & Ministry/Ministry Resources/Youth Ministry    10. Health & Fitness/Diets - General    11. Religion / Amish    12. Religion / Christian Life    13. Religion/Christianity - Education - Children & Youth    14. Religious Orientation/Christian    15. Theometrics/Evangelical    16. Topical/Adolescence/Coming of Age