We've got tools and fun ideas to help parents encourage healthy habits at home, from healthy eating activities to ways to build good social skills and nurture positive behavior.
Healthy Eating Handouts & Resources
See a variety of printouts and links to more resources to help you and your child make healthy eating choice every day.
Nemours' KidsHealth.org
Get answers and help on preparing meals and snacks, shopping, and more from KidsHealth.org, the #1 most-visited children’s health information site created by the experts at Nemours.
More Resources
- Let’s Move!: tools, support, and information initiated by First Lady Michelle Obama to help form healthy habits in children
- Team Nutrition: a comprehensive plan from the USDA to promote the nutritional health of children, involving schools, parents, and the community
- We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition): information and resources to help children stay at a healthy weight
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): supplemental food, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income women, infants, and children
Physical Activity Handouts & Resources
Find out how to get your family moving in the right direction with
these downloads.
From Nemours' KidsHealth.org
- Kids and Exercise: the importance and benefits of physical activity for children, from Nemours' KidsHealth.org
More Resources
- Delaware State Parks Trail Challenge: take on your local state park trails
- Family Checklist for Physical Activity in Early Care and Education: checklist to give your child care provider to ensure your child will get plenty of physical activity
- Let’s Move!: tools, support, and info initiated by First Lady Michelle Obama to help form healthy habits in children
- National Center for Safe Routes to School: programs that enable and encourage kids to walk and bicycle to school
- We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition): info and resources to help children maintain at a healthy weight
Screen Time Handouts & Resources
Browse resources on media, television, and children.
- LimiTV: learn about the hazards of excessive TV watching and get ideas for alternative activities.
- Media Awareness Network: find out how to help increase your child’s media literacy.
- MediaWise: includes reviews and ratings on almost every video game and movie on the market.
- Over the Rainbow: an online magazine dedicated to media literacy for the whole family.
- Parents Television Council: educates on issues such as sex, violence, and profanity.
- Parents’ Choice: provides reliable, unbiased information about children’s media and toys.
Sleep Routines Handouts & Resources
Get answers and help on sleep for kids of all ages from the experts at Nemours’ KidsHealth.org.
Emotional Wellness Handouts & Resources
Find a list of tools and resources to promote healthy social skills, emotional wellness, and life skills.
Social Development
- Bright Futures: materials for families on mental, physical, and emotional health issues
- Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning: resources for families to improve social skills and emotional development in young children
- Child Guidance Resource Centers (CGRC): quality care and educational services for children, adolescents, and families with mental health, developmental disabilities, and residency needs in DE, PA, and MD
- Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI): partnerships to promote young children's social skills and emotional development, foster resilience, and build skills for school success
Positive Relationships
- Just in Time Parenting eNewsletters
- Nemours’ Parenting Tips: strategies to help deal with common
parenting concerns - Triple P (Positive Parenting Program): simple routines and small changes that can make a big difference
Emotional Development
From Nemours
- Nemours KidsHealth: Emotions and Behavior: help your child cope with life's ups and downs, from divorce to depression
- Nemours’ Parenting Tips: strategies for common parenting concerns
More Resources
- Just in Time Parenting eNewsletters
- Search Institute: Developmental Asset Lists (ages 3-18): building blocks to help children grow up healthy, caring, and responsible
- Triple P (Positive Parenting Program): simple routines and small changes that can make a big difference to your family
Self-Control Skills
- Nemours’ Parenting Tips: strategies for common parenting concerns
- Bright Futures: addresses children's health needs in the context of family and community
- Just in Time Parenting eNewsletters
- Triple P (Positive Parenting Program): simple routines and small changes that can make a big difference to your family
Health Literacy
- Helping Teens Take Charge of Their Health Care and other helpful articles on teaching youth life skills are available on KidsHealth from Nemours.
- Health Communication, Health Literacy, and e-Health: resources from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help patients obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services.
