Strategies to Help Kids Prevent Excessive Weight Gain*If school is remote, encourage your children to get up for even five to 10 minutes for every hour of screen time, says Sandy Hassink, medical director of the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight. “Get them moving," she says.
Apps like Go Noodle and Cosmic Kids Yoga help kids to move around, says Dr. Shepard. Or just dance. “One of the simplest things to do is just turn on the music and dance around," she says.*Try to have at least one family meal a day. “When people sit down and eat, they talk and eat a bit more slowly rather than eating mindlessly in front of a screen," says Dr.