Your Active Child : How to Boost Physical, Emotional and Cognitive Development Through Age-Appropriate Activity

by Pica, Rae

• ISBN13: 9780071405584
• ISBN10: 0071405585
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

A guide to protecting children under eight years old from becoming either lethargic or high-strungToday, many children fall into one of two categories, neither of which is healthy: one group is almost entirely inactive, and the other spends most of their "free" time in highly structured, overly stressful competitive sports that are age-inappropriate.As an expert on children's movement and development, and as a consultant to the Children's Television Workshop, Gymboree, YMCA of the USA, and other groups, Rae Pica shows how the right kinds of activities increase children's enjoyment of physical activity for a lifetime. With straight talk on what works, what doesn't, and why, Pica teaches parents:Why raising a Super Kid is as dangerous as raising a Couch PotatoUnique activity ideas and the benefits of "cooperative activities"How to recognize when a child is too active or not active enoughWhy competitive sports programs aren't the answerAnd much more

Author Biography

Rae Pica is a movement education consultant and the founder of Moving &Learning. She is an adjunct faculty with the kinesiology department at the University of New Hampshire, and is a frequent keynote speaker at professional and academic conferences.

She is also the author of Experiences in Movement and the YMCA Preschool Movement and Health Program.