Exercise for Children

Links to information about exercise, sport, and fitness for children.

Updated January 2008

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Title:   Sport for children
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sport is a very important part of the Australian way of life, as well as in many other countries. It is also one of the main ways to help children, young people and adults to keep fit and healthy and avoid becoming overweight.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Exercise
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Could you run and walk for hours, leap over rocks, climb mountains, carry loads, run and have a sound sleep and do it all again the next day?
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   How to get the kids to be more active
Publisher:   The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Description:   This factsheet covers why physical activity is important for children.
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Sport and children
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Evidence suggests that physically active children are more likely to mature into physically active adults. However, only six out of 10 Australian children aged between five and 14 years participate in sport outside of school.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   I'm no good at sport
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   There are two kinds of sport - organised sport, like belonging to a club or school sports team, and sport that you play with a group of friends at lunchtime or after school.
Date:   Jul 2006
Title:   Media release. Ministers agree to coordinated approach to sport and recreation
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australia's sports ministers have agreed to an ambitious reform agenda to secure Australia's sporting future and get more Aussie kids healthy and active.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Be active with diabetes
Publisher:   The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Description:   Just like other children, children with diabetes should be encouraged to participate in physical activity and sports. Physical activity and exercise will help to improve your child's diabetes management (because insulin works better), keep an ideal weight, feel well and happy and have more energy.
Date:   Sep 2001
Title:   Media release. 150,000 children join active after-school program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   More than 150,000 children are now playing sport, games and activities after school in the Government's Active After-school Communities program.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Activities for school kids
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Discusses ways to find activities that school-aged children will enjoy. Includes tips on how to encourage activities that aren't sport.
Date:   Dec 2006
Title:   Supporting active kids
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   You can help your kids be active by encouraging physical activity when they show interest; spending time at local playgrounds and playing organised and team sport.
Date:   Dec 2006
Title:   Physical activity for children
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Exercise is good for growing children as well as for adults. It keeps muscles stronger, increases flexibility and makes them feel better as well as making it easier to maintain a healthy weight.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Stress: it affects children too
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   How parents can help their children cope with stress.
Date:   Sep 1999
Title:   Media release. Aussie kids walk to Beijing to get fit
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Olympic fever has hit the nation with more than 100,000 kids throughout Australia starting to jump, run, hop and skip all the way to Beijing.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Boys
Publisher:   Headroom (Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide)
Description:   Good discipline contains a boy and his energy, providing the sense of physical and emotional security he needs in order to learn the larger lessons of self control and moral behaviour. Here are some ways parents, family and friends can help boys to develop.
Date:   Jan 2002
Title:   Teenage girls - getting them active
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Most girls drop their rate of physical activity once they reach adolescence. A teenage girl's level of physical activity has a direct influence on her weight and her future health. Parents can help their daughters to become more active and healthy.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Regular exercise: it's easier than you think
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Many people don't do regular exercise because they think they're too busy or they're not fit enough. The good news is that fitness experts now say you don't need to do your daily 30 minutes of exercise all at once.
Date:   Jan 1996
Title:   Exercise therapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This summary presents what we know from research about the effect of exercise therapy in JIA. The review shows that in children with JIA, exercise may not lead to any difference in a child's ability to function or move their joints fully, the number of ...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Media release. New safety guidelines for children and young people in sport
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government has moved to make sport safer for young Australians with the launch by the Federal Minister for Sport, Kate Ellis, of new national guidelines to promote safety in sport and a national sport injury prevention program.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   ConnectABILITY recreation services
Publisher:   Novita Children???s Services
Description:   Provides information about Novita's ConnectABILITY program that aims to provide children living with physical disabilities, aged five to 13 years, with greater access to community-based sport and recreation activities.
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Will my child get hurt?
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Proper equipment, warming up, rest breaks during physical activity, supervision and other precautions can help prevent injuries in children when they play sport or are active.
Date:   Dec 2006
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