Online Class: Understanding Childhood Obesity
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11Lessons
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13Exams &
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3Hours
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0.3CEUs
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Video Audit
Available
Course Description
This comprehensive course is designed to address the urgent and growing concern of childhood obesity, a pressing issue that affects families globally. It offers valuable insights and practical solutions for parents seeking to support their children's health and wellbeing.
Course Overview
This course provides a dual-focus approach, catering to both parents of overweight children seeking strategies for healthy weight management and parents aiming to instill robust eating and exercise habits to prevent obesity from an early age.
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Understanding Childhood Obesity: We'll start by exploring the latest statistics and research on childhood obesity, understanding its causes, implications, and the importance of tackling this issue early in life. Updated data and trends will offer a comprehensive view of this global challenge.
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Nutrition Essentials: Dive deep into the world of child nutrition. Learn about balanced diets, the role of different food groups, and how to create enjoyable, nutritious meals. We'll include real-life examples of healthy meal planning and tips for dealing with picky eaters.
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Physical Activity for Children: Discover the importance of physical activity in children's lives, exploring age-appropriate exercises and fun ways to keep your child active. We'll cover the latest guidelines on children's physical activity and provide examples of easy-to-implement activities for different age groups.
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Parental Guidance and Support: Understand your role as a parent in shaping your child's health behaviors. We'll discuss various parenting styles, their impact on children's health, and strategies for positive reinforcement.
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Dealing with Challenges: Address common challenges and barriers faced by parents and children in the journey towards a healthier lifestyle. We'll provide practical advice on managing setbacks and maintaining motivation.
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Health and Wellness from Infancy to Adolescence: Follow a child's growth journey from infancy to adolescence, with each stage bringing its unique challenges and opportunities in managing weight and health. This section provides a roadmap for parents to support their child's health through different developmental stages.
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Professional Guidance and Resources: While this course is rich in information, it is essential to complement it with professional advice. We'll guide you on when and how to seek help from healthcare professionals, including dietitians and pediatricians.
Why Take This Course?
- Empowerment: Equip yourself with knowledge and tools to make informed decisions about your child’s health.
- Prevention: Learn strategies to prevent obesity and associated health problems in your child from an early age.
- Lifetime Skills: Develop skills and habits that benefit your family's health and wellbeing for a lifetime.
In conclusion, this course is an invaluable resource for any parent committed to nurturing a healthy, happy child. It's not just a course; it's a journey towards a healthier future for your family.
Course Motivation
You love your child, so naturally you might feel that your child's obesity is your fault. Take heart that it's not. Obesity can be genetic and most of the time, it is. It can be caused by other disorders that we'll talk about in this course. Unless you are filling your child full of McDonald's and candy bars every meal of the day, seven days a week, you are not to blame for your child's weight issues.
What's more, in addition to helping your child succeed in losing weight, you must already recognize that there is an issue. It can be the hardest thing to admit to yourself. Parents tell themselves that the child will grow out of it, they're big boned like their relatives, or that they're just a little pudgy. Obesity is a hard word to swallow, especially when it's your child. However, admitting that your child is overweight and needs help to lose it in order to stay healthy is a big first step in the right direction.
Again, just don't expect the results to happen overnight. If your child has 20 or 50 pounds to lose, sometimes it's healthier to lose it in smaller increments. The last thing you want is to put your child on a crash diet. Plus, you can expect setbacks along the way. That's to be expected. But that's okay. This course is going to help guide you through it all.
Course Lessons
Lesson 1. Introduction
This course is going to address the topic of childhood obesity and give you some of the help you need. But before we delve in, there are a few more things we need to discuss that you will find to be a huge help with your child.Lesson 2. The Childhood Obesity Epidemic
If you take a few minutes to watch children on the playground or observe some of your child's classmates at school, you'll most likely notice at least a few kids who are overweight, if not obese.Lesson 3. Nutrition and Your Child's Health
Whenever anyone talks about losing weight, they talk about eating less food. Perhaps society has conditioned us that way.Lesson 4. Physical Activity
Parents say it all the time and it's very close to being the truth. When we were young, we played outside.Lesson 5. Consistency
This and the next lesson in this course are written to help you with this challenge and to try to make it all not so overwhelming for you.Lesson 6. Your Parenting Style and Challenges
In this lesson, we're going to discuss the challenges you may face with your child.Lesson 7. Getting Your Child Back to Good Health
This lesson will focus on the importance of planning before starting your program.Lesson 8. Pregnancy and Your Child's First Year
This lesson will begin to discuss that there are also steps we can take as parents to prevent obesity as our kids are growing.Lesson 9. The Toddler and Preschool Years
As your baby grows into a toddler, it may become easier to know when your child is hungry or full, so you won't be second guessing yourself nearly as much and wonder if you're overfeeding or not.Lesson 10. The School and Adolescent Years
By the time your child reaches five, they are growing in more ways than you can imagine.Lesson 11. If Problems Arise
In this lesson, we've taken the time to talk about some of the more common problems you may face, as well as solutions.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand what child obesity is and isn't.
- Describe the childhood obesity epidemic.
- Describe nutrition and your child's health.
- Summarize physical activity.
- Describe the importance of consistency.
- Identify your parenting style and challenges.
- Determine getting your child back to good health.
- Summarize pregnancy and your child's first year.
- Summarize the toddler and preschool years.
- Summarize the school and adolescent years.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Additional Course Information
- Document Your Lifelong Learning Achievements
- Earn an Official Certificate Documenting Course Hours and CEUs
- Verify Your Certificate with a Unique Serial Number Online
- View and Share Your Certificate Online or Download/Print as PDF
- Display Your Certificate on Your Resume and Promote Your Achievements Using Social Media
Student Testimonials
- "Wonderfully explained course and great instructor ." -- Ethan O.
- "The focus on parental encouragement and the handy tips in helping obese children overcome their obstacles was most helpful in the course. Thanks!" -- Alana A.
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