Week | Parents’ program | Children’s program |
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1 | Let’s get started | Let’s get started |
What is health? | Why be healthy? | |
Balancing act 1: energy in, energy out | Balancing act 1: energy in, energy out | |
Let’s look after ourselves | ||
2 | Balancing acts | Balancing acts |
Discipline (including setting limits and praise) | Balancing act 2: what our bodies need to eat | |
Balancing act 2: food our bodies need | The gift of praise | |
3 | Inner power – our ally for health | Inner power – our health helper |
Family guidelines and rewards | Our inner power | |
Finding our power for health (focus on physical activity) | Let’s get active | |
 | Introducing the pedometer | |
4 | The question of choice | Our choices |
Our eating habits | Making strong choices | |
Children’s choices | Let’s go shopping | |
5 | Health is a family affair | Liking ourselves |
How much we eat (portion sizes) | Glad to be me | |
Building self-esteem | Let’s make a rainbow (of fruit & veg) | |
6 | Feelings – a guide to our emotional health | Getting to know our feelings |
Thinking about feelings | Feeling up, feeling down | |
Active alternatives to staring at the screen | Screen savers: what else we can do | |
7 | Solutions to stress | Time to chill out |
Stress – and what we can do about it | What winds us up | |
Coming to our senses | What calms us down | |
Surviving at the supermarket | Activity taster | |
8 | A world of labels | Food detectives |
Food labels: what do they mean? | What’s on the label? | |
Labeling our children | Activity taster | |
9 | Taking charge | Living healthily |
From problem to solution | Problems, puzzles and solutions | |
A healthy lifestyle or a life of diets? | Activity taster | |
Meeting the challenge of special occasions | Â | |
10 | A healthy family future | (combined session with parents) |
Scaling the ladder to health | Â | |
We are stars! | Â | |
 | Family party: time to celebrate |  |