Resources for Healthier Children (02)

Is Your Child Shy?
Many children experience shyness at some point or another, so this site provides information for sensitive children. A section for kids and tweens, teens, parents and teachers is included. This is a wonderful resource especially for teachers, who deal with plenty of children every day. The site also includes books and information about making friends and avoiding social anxiety disorder.

Managing Your Child’s Anger
A happy child is a healthy child, so if your child is angry, you need to help them deal with it. This site discusses the three components of anger, which includes the emotional state of anger, the expression of anger and understanding anger. This article discusses how to understand and manage anger and give teachers and parents tips for guiding children to express their anger through popular psychological models.

Children and Exercise: The Key to Fitness
Although kids are encouraged to be active for better health, and to avoid childhood obesity, there are some sports that children with certain medical conditions should avoid. The conditions include children with Down syndrome, bleeding disorders, hypertension, congenital heart disease, enlarged spleen, and diabetes. This site includes another article about children and sports, and what exercises children can do to stay healthy.

A Healthy Place for Teens
A site put out for teens about healthy attitudes by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands with support from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. This site explores teen emotions, how teens can take care of themselves, how to deal with teen issues, how to cope with hard situations and how to tell if a friend is having a hard time. It teaches kids how to cope with various issues they face, saying that it’s OK to cry or get lost in a movie, a book or TV so long as teens don’t use those avenues to avoid reality completely.