Family Health Nights and Workshops

As part of NHPTV's LiveFIT NH community outreach project, Ready To Learn is offering learning opportunities and resources for children, parents, teachers, childcare providers, and others who work with children and families.
Free Workshop for Adults --"Recipe for Health: Nutrition, Exercise and Children."

The workshop focuses on:

•  Raising awareness and looking at things parents, teachers and childcare providers can do-including being an advocate.

•  Prevention: Helping children learn to make healthy choices.

•  Developing a healthy lifestyle for WHOLE family.

•  Making healthy choices fun and positive (emphasize what you can do more than what you can't do)

•  Balance!

Family Health Night for Elementary Schools (K-5) and Family Health Night for Preschools, Family Centers, and Childcare Agencies (Pre-K-3).

Family Health Nights provide an evening of fun, activities, information about family nutrition and fitness, ideas and resources, and children's health-related books. Some topics addressed include:

•  Suggestions for healthy snacks.

•  Ideas for meals that are nutritious AND low cost.

•  What's in it--looking at nutrition facts on packaging.

•  Eat Your Colors and the Food Pyramid.

•  Picky eaters.

•  Fun fitness ideas for home and school.

•  Be an advocate for healthy children.

•  Make healthy choices fun and positive.

•  Take one step.