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Good Kids, Bad Habits: The Realage (R) Guide to Raising Healthy Children

by Jennifer Trachtenberg

A prevention-focused guide to everyday childhood habits

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A prevention-focused guide to everyday childhood habits

Jennifer Trachtenberg’s parenting guide connects familiar concerns—screen time, sleep, eating patterns, and video-game use—to the long-term health issues the book says can grow from entrenched habits. Its organizing tool is the RealAge Healthy Kids Test, presented as a way for parents to identify areas of strength and potential concern in a child’s routine. The book frames health guidance around practical changes made with children and parents together, combining preventive steps with attention to the realities of letting kids remain kids. Published in 2007, it presents a broad, habit-centered approach to childhood wellness rather than concentrating on a single issue.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents seeking a broad guide to children’s everyday health habits
  • Caregivers concerned about sleep, eating, screen time, or video-game use
  • Adults interested in prevention-oriented family health guidance

Themes

Childhood healthHabit formationPreventive careScreen timeNutrition and sleep

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Book overview

When kids start going on TV binges or devouring fistfuls of cookies, it's easy to say, "They'll grow out of it." More likely, they're acquiring bad habits that could lead to childhood obesity and chronic adult diseases, from diabetes and depression to heart trouble and osteoporosis.

But by making simple changes now, you can help your children avoid these problems later. Good Kids, Bad Habits supplies the tools you need, starting with the unique RealAge(R) Healthy Kids Test. Based on the proven RealAge Test, which measures biological--not calendar--age, the Healthy Kids Test reveals where children are doing fine and where they're headed for health trouble.

Regardless of the problem--from sleeplessness to video-game addiction--Dr. Jen has seen and solved it all, working with parents and kids together. Her insightful tips, preventive steps, and kid smarts, learned from working with thousands of children, make this book invaluable. It will help your kids grow into the healthiest adults they can be--while still allowing them to be kids.

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