Healthy Active Living for Families (HALF)
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/growing-healthy/Pages/default.aspx
Healthy Active Living for Families (HALF) is a program of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The goal of the project is to partner with parents to encourage healthy habits right from the start. This web site is geared for children birth through age 5 years.

HealthyChildren.org - Nutrition
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/default.aspx
HealthyChildren.org is the only parenting Web site backed by 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The specific nutritional choices you and your youngster make are crucial. Good nutrition is essential to good health and the American Academy of Pediatrics encourages parents to think of their nutritional decisions as health decisions.

HealthyChildren.org - Fitness
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/fitness/Pages/default.aspx
There's no scarcity of activities that you can make available to your child, and all kids can find some form of exercise that they enjoy. If you can get your child interested in an activity like this when he's young, exercise and fitness are more likely to become a habit that lasts for many decades.

HealthyChildren.org - ChopChop Magazine
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/chop-chop-magazine/Pages/default.aspx
ChopChop, the fun cooking magazine for kids and families, entices 5-12 year olds with headlines like, ‘Food Fight’, ‘Scrumptious Wordsearch’ and ‘Watermelon Mush.’ But the underlying message is more serious – cooking and eating healthy is an important, lifelong skill.
A free copy of the magazine is available at Middleboro Pediatrics.

Eating Healthy. Growing Strong.
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/the-very-hungry-caterpillar/Pages/default.aspx
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the American Academy of Pediatrics have joined with the best-selling children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to help families learn about healthy eating habits.

5210 Let’s Go
http://www.letsgo.org/in-your-community/resources-for-parents/
5210 stands for 5 or more fruits & vegetables, 2 hours or less of recreational screen time, 1 hour or more of physical activity, and 0 sugary drinks. Included on this page are resources for parents who are interested in increasing healthy eating and physical activity in their families.

Go, Slow, and Whoa Foods
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/summer07/articles/summer07pg28.html
Use this chart as a guide to help you and your family make smart food choices. Foods are divided into three categories: Go foods - almost anytime foods, Slow foods -sometimes foods, and Whoa foods - once in a while foods.

Go, Slow, and Whoa for Kids
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/go_slow_whoa.html
Lots of kids want to know which foods to eat to be healthy or lose weight. Most kids don't need to be on diets, but here's something kids can do to eat healthier: Learn the difference between Go, Slow, and Whoa foods.

We Can!
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/
We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a national movement designed to give parents, caregivers, and entire communities a way to help children 8 to 13 years old stay at a healthy weight.

Choose My Plate
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
Health and nutrition for children from the Center for Nutrition Policy and promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Lets Move
http://www.letsmove.gov/
Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Sure, this is an ambitious goal. But with your help, we can do it.