Sports and Lessons

Explore age-appropriate lessons and sports for your kindergartener. These might include gymnastics or ballet classes or soccer lessons.

Play Outside

Make sure that your child has plenty of opportunities to play outside. Take advantage of local parks and playgrounds as much as possible. Outdoor play allows children to participate in a variety of healthy physical activities and also offers valuable non-physical benefits. It can foster cognitive and emotional development, by encouraging children to test their limits and explore unfamiliar pieces of equipment. Interacting with other children at parks and playgrounds also helps develop important social skills.

Good Health

Make sure your child understands the connection between good hygiene and good health. Explain the importance of not sharing drinking containers and straws, for example, with other kids at school.

Sugar, Juice and Soft-Drinks & Soda

• Limit your child's consumption of sugary or sticky foods, which are the main culprits in tooth decay. Teach your child to use their tongue to clean off their teeth immediately after they have eaten foods that stick to their teeth.
• Limit juice consumption to mealtimes and dilute sweet juices with water to cut down on their sugar content.
• Avoid or severely restrict consumption of soft drinks and sodas.