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Weight Loss Camps Hold Kids 100% Responsible for Their Own Health
Email PageIn real life, weight loss camps have sprung up around the country. These camps are successfully touching all aspects of wellness including nutrition education, fitness, behavioral change, and family involvement. Kids are being motivated to continue on with their weight loss and/or healthy behavior even after they leave the camp. That is true success!
One camp makes a contract with the child and the parent where they tell the parents to “no longer take the responsibility,” making the child fully accountable for their life. How about a parent's camp on how to teach your kids healthy habits from the beginning? After all, children learn by example.
Renee, BS, LD/N, ACSM
Nutrition Specialist
“If you had one car to get around in your lifetime, how would you treat it?”
Labels: children
Comment by 
Doug Jackson, M.Ed.,CSCS said... - October 13, 2007 6:56 AM
Hi Renee,
As a fitness professional and the co-author of Family Fit Plan, child and family fitness is close to my heart. It's my feeling that parents should take a certain amount of responsibility for their childrens' fitness and not just leave it all up to the kids. There's a reason why kids don't move out until they are eighteen or so. Up until about that age, they haven't developed the decision making skills necessary to truly keep them self safe and well. I believe parents should STRONGLY guide their childrens' fitness and health lifestyle, as well as set an example through their own healthy eating and exercise. Parents looking for more solutions can view the free family fitness action plan at www.FamilyFitPlan.com.
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