If you want your family to develop healthier habits but don’t know where to start, you’re not alone. From processed foods to endless streaming options, healthy choices are harder than ever to make.

The Boston Children’s fit kit offers strategies and tools to help you and your family live healthy, active lives. Our resources are made for kids ages 8 to 15, but the whole family can use them.

How to use the Boston Children's fit kit

Children learn in a variety of ways — by seeing, listening, writing, moving, and acting. The Boston Children’s fit kit includes resources that appeal to a variety of learning styles.

You and your family can use the Boston Children’s fit kit to learn more about five areas that affect children’s health:

Nutrition
Smiling girl eats a healthy lunch
Fitness
Five children are running across park grass
Sedentary Time
Standing children play air guitar
Sleep
Child under sheet rests head on pillow
Stress
Person is in yoga pose, with eyes closed, while sitting on yoga mat

When you choose one of the topics above, you’ll find resources to help your children and family make healthy choices, including:

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Educational videos and interactive elements
These introduce main messages, key takeaways, and helpful strategies.
Assessment tools
These help families assess their health habits and knowledge.
Trackers
These are for self-monitoring changes over time.
Activities
These encourage kids to apply what they've learned.

About the Boston Children’s fit kit

At the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, we conduct research into the causes of obesity and provide care for children with overweight or obesity. We use our research and know-how to develop education and programs that can have a positive effect for kids and families.

The Boston Children’s fit kit, generously supported by the New Balance Foundation, offers strategies, tools, and activities to help families develop healthier habits. Our goal is to support many more families to adopt healthy and active lifestyles so that more kids can grow up confident and strong.