This book provides a comprehensive plan that helps parents guide their children toward a healthy love of sports. It will show parents, and their kids, how to get involved with triathlon and other “lifestyle” sports that can be pursued for a lifetime.

Triathlon is a fantastic endeavour for children because it promotes involvement in three “lifestyle” sports. No matter what the age, children who develop some skills in swimming, biking and running will be able to pursue any sport they would like when they are older.

Sport can, and should, be the most enjoyable, and educational, activity our children get to do. It should provide them with a positive feeling about themselves. It should teach them that they can improve themselves in all endeavors of life by working hard and persevering. It should teach them about the benefits of working as part of a team or training group. It should show them how much they gain in life by striving to achieve their goals. It should help them become good people.

“A Healthy Guide to Sport” will offer parents and children a plan to help them achieve all that.

Introduction

Children in today’s society are in trouble. In Canada, 34 per cent of our children are considered clinically obese. The average child in North America spends about 28 hours watching television or playing computer games every week. (Yes, that’s 4 hours a day!)

Those kids are growing up to become obese adults. Many of them aren’t even making it to adulthood without serious health problems – Type 2 diabetes, a disease that affects overweight children, has become so common that many health professionals feel it has reached epidemic proportions here in North America.

While we have so many children who are so inactive they are getting sick, we have another group of children at the other end of the sporting spectrum. These kids are being pushed into sports, and are doing too much, too soon.

Children should pursue a variety of sports while growing up. One of the worst things we can do as parents is force our children to specialize too soon – seven-year-old children shouldn’t have to give up every other sport to focus on their hockey careers!

It’s important to remember that our children aren’t going to become great athletes just because we want them to. As Dan and Jay Bielsma pointed out in their book, “So Your Son Wants to Play in the NHL,” children “make it” in sports not because of what their parents do for them – great athletes become the best at what they do because of their own inner drive to succeed.

This book is not going to give you a blueprint to turn little Johnny or Susie into a professional triathlete. The goal is to provide a comprehensive plan that will help parents guide their children towards a healthy love of sports. This book will show parents, and kids, how to get involved in triathlon and other “lifestyle” sports that they will be able to do for the rest of their lives.

This book will offer parents and children ways to learn to love participating in an active lifestyle that involves many sports.

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