Healthy Me Week: Day 7

By ParentsCanada staff on June, 10 2012

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Keep your child active, healthy and media smart with ParentsCanada's tips and recipes. Find out more about what Healthy Me Week is about.

The push to get physical in school

Physical activity can be any movement that happens in school. Read about what you as a parent can do.

Getting active with LifeSports

Watch Kym Grippo and Janet Omstead, personal trainers at LifeSports, show you how to easily get your child active with a fun, simple obstacle course in the house.

Healthy recipe

Applesauce oat bars

Give your kids this yummy, healthy snack that they can help you make. What's not to love?

Web-savvy family: Keep a positive online reputation

By: Lynn Hargrove, Cyber mom and director of consumer solutions, Symantec Canada

When kids share the details of their lives online, they leave digital traces all over the Web. What they often don’t realize is that everything posted on the Internet is there for all to see – and it’s probably there indefinitely. All it takes is a single Web search by a potential roommate, university admissions officer or employer and all those photos, opinions and thoughts (no matter when they were posted).

Action plan

Friend your children on social networking sites and review their online activities to see if anything they’ve said, uploaded or commented on might harm their future.
Review social network privacy settings
Delete comments, photos, videos, and posts that are offensive, juvenile, or simply foolish when viewed by a stranger.

Have “The Talk” with your kids today.