Parents Canada magazine: 60 Minute Kids’ Club co-founder Matt Young on childhood obesity and inactivity
Matt Young, co-founder of 60 Minute Kids’ Club, wrote an article on childhood obesity and inactivity for Parents Canada magazine. Childhood obesity and inactivity A great deal of time, money and energy has been invested in discussing what it will take to raise the bar on our children’s health and physical activity. As childhood obesity […]
November 2014 Network Update
Information and updates from Ability Online, Active for Life and Play Safe Initiative (PSI).
New online course helps educators to keep allergic kids safe at school
Anaphylaxis Canada has launched a new online course to help teachers, administrators and educational staff to keep allergic students safe at school
Anaphylaxis in Schools: What Educators Need to Know is a free, bilingual resource available to schools across the country. The course incorporates graphics, audio narration, practice scenarios, and step-by-step visual guides to help educators prevent and manage emergency situations at school.
September 2014 Network Update
Updates from the 60 Minute Kids’ Club, Active at School, Canadian Obesity Network (CON-RCO) and CYCC.
Calling all health care practitioners with an interest in paediatric healthcare
Researchers at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Toronto are looking for input from health care practitioners through a short, anonymous online survey to share your feedback and opinion on the development of a new health screening tool for children: The Healthy Body Scorecard. It aims to address some of the limitations associated […]
Canada’s Most Influential Sport, Wellness and Health Organizations Offer Unprecedented Help to Get Kids ‘Active at School’
More than 60 of Canada’s Leading Companies and Organizations Join Forces to Get Kids ACTIVE AT SCHOOL Private Sector and Not-For-Profit Organizations Offer to Share Responsibility to Achieve One Hour of Physical Activity Every Day at School Unprecedented Offer of Access to Considerable Networks, Resources, Investments and Marketing to Reverse a Staggering Trend of Inactivity […]
Canadian Tire: Run For Playgrounds
Why are we running? Playgrounds are the heart of our communities, but many need to be rejuvenated. So we’re holding the first Canadian Tire Run For Playgrounds event. An 8k run, a 5k walk / run or stroll and a kids event to raise money to help give local kids a sporting chance and revitalize […]
The Sandbox Project Summer 2013 eNewsletter
The Sandbox Project Summer 2013 newsletter features news and updates
Read more for the latest on the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH), our sandbox at the 2013 Windsor Essex International Children’s Games, updates from our Working Groups, news from our partners and many more information.
The Sandbox Project Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group commends Toronto Public Health on not sending ‘Fat Letters’; warns of negative repercussions of weighing kids
The Sandbox Project’s Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group writes letter to Toronto Public Health to identify key issues to consider in its BMI study
To Whom It May Concern,
On behalf of The Sandbox Project charity and our Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group, we would first like to commend you on initiating the Body Mass Index (BMI) Study, to be held in schools next year. As a national child and youth health charity, we are encouraged that you have made this a priority to invest in the health of children as they truly are our future. While this study is a valuable resource that identified one measurement of the status of Toronto children’s health, there are some issues that have been identified by our Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group experts that we would like to bring to your attention.
National Post: New concept of physical literacy has parents wondering if they need to teach their kids how to play now, too
National Post’s Sarah Boesveld writes about parents and physical literacy
Sara Smeaton used to write notes to excuse herself from gym class — and she got her mother to write them too. A dancer, gymnast and swimmer as a kid, she ditched the pool at age 10 after she was put in a lonely synchronized swimming class.
“You can’t synchronize swim by yourself without feeling like a huge loser,” says the Toronto mother of two. That was the “turning point” — the moment she decided she was just not “sporty.” A sedentary adolescence took hold.