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Parents want the best for their kids, but how do you sift through all the information to find what is best for your family? You’ve come to the right place!

• Tips for a Healthy Family – Help your family develop healthy eating habits and be active.
• Food & Recipes – Find out quick and easy ways you can make smart food choices and prepare healthy meals.
• Support Your School – Help your school staff promote healthy choices for kids.
• Health Topics – Learn about diabetes, food allergies and weight issues or locate food assistance.
• Tips for Toddlers - learn how to educate your preschooler about good nutrition, how to model a healthy lifestyle, and how to prepare healthy meals and snacks they will love!
• Familias Hispanas – Encuentra la mejor informacion sobre como puedes ayudar a tu familia en el hogar y la escuela para mejorar su alimentacion, reducir el riego de obesidad y sobrepeso para prevenir enfermedades y mantenerlos saludables de por vida,  siguiendo este link.

Tips for a Healthy Family  

New! Kidnetic.com for Parents - get the facts about children and physical activity, healthy eating and self-esteem. The Parents’ Guide provides lots of ideas and tips to get the whole family involved in making healthier food choices, managing portion size, and getting active together; and, the Kidnector is designed to help open the lines of communication between children and parents by inviting kids to share their thoughts with their parents.

New! Promoting Healthy Youth - a parent toolkit from Ohio Action for Healthy Kids and Ohio Parent Teacher Association. This toolkit will help parents impact the nutrition and physical activity environment in schools. It contains background information, success stories, supplemental resources and a
P.A.R.E.N.T. Process for changing the wellness environment within
schools and their home environment.

New! Healthy Family Home - outlines all kinds of simple yet effect ways families can eat healthier, be more physically active and spend more time together - YMCA

New! 20 Ways to Become a Fitter Family - twenty concise ways to accomplish your goals for a healthier family. Produced by Connie Evers.

Spend Smart Eat Smart - An interactive website that takes you through grocery planning, shopping at the store, and preparing food - all focused on economical and healthy options for your family.

Snacking Wisely - The Snackwise® Calculator - This resources allows you to rate your snacks, from chips to granola bars to candy, and make better choices for yourself and your family.

Small Steps – That’s all it takes to help your child grow up healthy and strong! Practical tips from the U.S. Department of Health and human Services for eating well, getting more active, and living well, everyday.

MyPyramid – Plan healthy food choices for the whole family here.

Nutrition.gov – Get the latest news on food and healthy eating.

KidsHealth – Learn how to keep your child healthy from head to toe. 

SuperKids Nutrition – Everything you need to know to grow healthy kids, families and communities, plus coloring sheets, learning activities and book recommendations for all ages.  This site is a must view resource for parents, educators and kids!

Create Healthy, Active Celebrations – A downloadable guide from the USDA Eat Smart Play Hard initiative that is full of party planning ideas for educators and homes.: suggestions for food, age-appropriate games and activities, and party favors. It provides party time-segments, party themes and then the menus to go with them.

Nutrition Matters – Use these easy-to-read, helpful materials to plan healthy food choices for young kids.

Vegetarian Resource Group – Find out about diets without meat.

Fruits & Veggies – Get your family to eat more fruits and veggies with these recipes and tips.

America On the Move - Take small, simple steps to improve your family’s daily food and physical activity choices.

We Can!™  Resources for Parents and the Public - This page contains resources that offer practical tips and tools on how families can help prevent childhood overweight and maintain a healthy weight by making smart food choices, increasing physical activity, and reducing screen time.

Get on the Grain Train! - A resource from MyPyramid.gov that helps you meet your dietary guidelines for whole grains. Take the whole grain test - are you getting enough?

Food and Fun for Families - This easy-to-access web site has printer-friendly resources with healthy lifestyle tips for families including: Water, Active Play, Family Meals, and Fruits and Vegetables. From the Fit WIC Obesity Prevention initiative and the USDA.

Green Hour, a program of the National Wildlife Federation - Give your child a "Green Hour" each day, a time for unstructured play and interaction with the natural world. Green Hour.org provides weekly activities and ideas to set your child on the path to physical, mental, and emotional well being.

Food & Recipes

Meals Matter – Get meal ideas and find many tasty and easy recipes here.

Family Recipes – Learn to cook healthy meals with less effort and more fun!

Start Cooking – Want to learn how to cook?  Quick and easy videos show you how.

Nutrition & Health - Get expert advice on food and health here.

Food & Cooking  – This site has quick, easy and tasty recipes and health tips. Sign up for a monthly newsletter too.

Spatulatta - Get your kids excited about cooking with videos and recipes created by kids.

Make it Quick and Easy Recipes - from the USDA Food and Nutrition Services, a great menu and recipe planning tool for in-home child care providers or parents.

Vegetarian Nutrition - a web resource from the WIC Works Topics that provides practical solutions to providing a vegan diet to your family, how to get enough iron and calcium in a vegan diet, and information specifically geared towards young children.

Healthy Eating for Kids - A collection of flyers and other resources from the American Dietetic Association to help parents encourage healthy eating. Be sure to try the "License to Snack" interactive site and check out the Good Nutrition reading List for your young readers!

Support Your School

NEW! Parent's Guide to School Wellness Policies – Learn how you can help support school wellness policies.

Action for Healthy Kids – Help your school improve kid's eating habits and get kids active.

Healthier Generation – Help your school and town support healthy habits for kids

School Food Service – Find out what you should ask about school meals.

Team Nutrition – Your kids will learn a lot from these fun activities.

Health Topics

Food Allergies – Learn about all types of food allergies from the USDA.

Children With Diabetes - Find out how to live with diabetes.

Diabetes and Kids - This site is filled with help for kids with diabetes.

Eating Disorders – Find out what an eating disorder is and where to go for help.

Food Assistance – Get help buying the food your family needs for good health.

Tips for Toddlers

New! Sid the Science Kid Web site - designed to further develop children's natural wonder and build a strong foundation for early science exploration. There are complementary online and offline activities that motivate children to practice and internalize scientific methodology: "Observe! Compare! Contrast! Describe!" The site is crafted to support a collaborative learning experience between child and adult and offers features that help adult mentors to support and participate in the child's learning process.

Kids Health - A web site developed with Sprout online to provide nutrition, fitness and general health information to parents of young children.

Small Steps – That’s all it takes to help your child grow up healthy and strong! Practical tips from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Making the Family Connection - suggestions on creating healthy lifestyle changes. Topics include gardening, getting physically active, reading nutrition labels, food safety, and how to help your child snack –well.

My Pyramid for Preschoolers - This USDA web site offers advice to parents and caregivers on helping their children develop healthy eating habits.

Neat Solutions - cooking tips and recipes, physical activity, curriculum materials, literature, games, toys and activities.  Bilingual materials too!

Nibbles for Health - A nutrition newsletter for parents of young children.

Nutrition for Kids (24 Carrot Press) - a newsletter, handouts, stickers, books, and games for kids. This is an invaluable resource for parents.

 Create Healthy, Active Celebrations – This guide is full of party planning ideas for educators and homes. The guide provides suggestions for food, age-appropriate games and activities, and party favors. It breaks down the party into time segments, provides themes and then the menus to go with them. A phenomenal tool for fun, healthy celebrations.

DisneyFamily.com - This web site features ideas for healthy meals and snacks; ideas to keep holidays healthier; reinventing kid’s favorites to make them healthier, and reviews by parents who have tried them.

Healthy Fast-Food for Preschoolers - Vegetarian options for quick and easy meals, snacks and everything in between.