Tag: children

Parents in Sport Week promotes positive parenting in children’s sport

Active video games are an incomplete strategy to get kids physically active

Holiday gift ideas that will help your child stay active, and have fun doing it

Is it okay for a child to keep switching up their activity of choice?

Free, unstructured play is an essential part of healthy child development

Here’s how you can get your child the right introduction to swimming

Here’s how you can get your child the right introduction to gymnastics

Here’s another reason to get outside. Friday, June 15 is Nature Play Day in Canada. The Child and Nature Alliance of Canada is encouraging all Canadians to get outdoors to experience the joys of outdoor play. We know the importance of playing outside. Children confident in both indoor and outdoor environments become active for life. We’ve … Continued

As you’re working on your taxes this year, remember the credit you can claim because you enrolled your kids in a sports program. The Children’s Fitness Tax Credit is worth up to $500 for each child under the age of 16 for fees paid in 2011 “relating to the cost of registering your … child in a … Continued

A couple of years ago, if you had done a Google search on the words “physical literacy”, you wouldn’t have found much. Today, the same search delivers more than 42 million hits. Reflecting the increased awareness of physical literacy and its importance to child development, the NHL’s Calgary Flames, through its Flames Foundation for Life, are supporting a new … Continued