“You need to always give it new challenges, new input, new ideas, new toys, new workout clothes — new, new, new.” Dan O’Neill READ HERE
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NPR: ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Takes A Deep Dive Into The Facebook Files
Read article This sort of thing is not new but we have been allowing ourselves to be blind to it. One of the problems is folks over a certain age (those in positions of power) did not appreciate until too late the evils of platforms …
Read MoreMost Important Job In America
PHIT America gets it right. Cheers to our Physical Education teachers! Read article here
Read MoreThe Natural State of Humans
This article talks about getting children out into nature, but this does not need to be “done”- it simply needs to be “allowed to continue” from birth. The natural state of humans is to be part of nature: what I call our “physical identity.” If …
Read MoreThe Smartphone Trap
The job of the smartphone is to make sure you keep using your smartphone. This is not a toy or a tool for children to use at their own discretion. We simply need to do better as adults limiting exposure to this machine that is …
Read MoreArticle: Study Shows Physical Activity Levels Low for Utah Girls and Young Women
This is a great article as it supports so much of what we talk about in Survival of the Fit. One thing in particular they discuss is the predominance of competitive sports in gym class and how this excludes so many, especially women. We need …
Read MoreMore children head back to school overweight amid pandemic
More children head back to school overweight amid pandemic This is just more evidence that we cannot leave the health of our children only to parents. Mothers and fathers were simply no match during the pandemic for the likes of Facebook and FritoLay. We need …
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Shared from KQED: How Movement and Gestures Can Improve Student Learning Great blog that makes the movement to learning link.
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58051/how-movement-and-gestures-can-improve-student-learning Shared from KQED:
Read MoreIs eliminating PE helping?
The issues leading to poor fitness presented to President Eisenhower after the Korean War were the same that we discuss today: a decrease in farm work, modernization of factories, and too much screen time. The big difference today is that no one in the Federal …
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