How to Keep Kids Active with Fun Workouts from The Secret Ninja School

06/21/21 • 32 min

The Secret Ninja School shares online adventure workouts through fun, creative, and imaginative storytelling to keep kids active. We chat with Keiran Deck, the founder of the Secret Ninja School, about his passion for helping kids grow in confidence and find a sense of self-worth through exercise. We discuss the importance of regular movement and exercise for kids' physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Keiran (aka Ninja Kicks) together with Boronia Clark, the other Secret Ninja host, shares online workouts that last 10-15 mins in the comfort of your own home, and the exercises build fundamental movement skills. The skills taught in the Secret Ninja School workouts are movements taught by dance, gymnastics, and martial art experts. Kids of all abilities from 3-7 love it because it feels like play!Keiran discusses how regular and consistent organised exercise can help 60% of kids who start school, to sit and emotionally regulate well due to the structure and consistency of their movement habits.

Being active can positively affect children’s health, development, confidence, sleep patterns, concentration, and overall wellbeing.
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How to Help Kids with Picky Eating with Learn Play Eat

Finding a place to start to help and support kids with picky eating habits can be daunting and difficult. Learn Play Eat is an online supportive community that helps parents in this situation with their Facebook online community to connect with other families in similar situations and online resources.
Learn Play Eat also has an app that provides ideas for playful activities and fun games to help end picky eating. The ideas can set kids up to have fun and play with food and have positive experiences with eating.
We chat with Nicki Coates the founder of Learn Play Eat about her experiences with her son’s picky eating and how she was able to help and support him to overcome it. She started with her GP and found a fantastic Occupational Therapist that helped her teach her son how to trust the process of eating without feeling the pressure. Nicki discusses methods that have worked well for her and her son and ways to improve kids' relationships with food. Learn Play Eat offers parents with kids from 2-6 years of age, practical and simple ways to foster positive eating experiences with their kids and also ensuring that they receive the nutrition their growing bodies need.
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How to Boost Immunity through Nutrition with Dianna Moroney

This episode discusses ways to boost immunity in our kids through nutrition, and we have the pleasure to chat with naturopath Dianna Moroney again. In Episode 2 we chatted with Dianna about supporting children’s health with nutrition. We hone in on key nutrients for the immune system and some specific foods, a bit about pre and probiotics and what reduces immune activity.

Dianna discusses the role of the immune system and the relationship to gut health and the specific vitamins and minerals that are essential for boosting immune function in kids. Listen to the different types of immune cells and their functions in defending kids from bacteria and viruses and how we can nourish them.

The importance of prebiotics and probiotics are discussed and their differences explained. It can be overwhelming trying to sift through the plethora of information out there but learn how simple foods naturally contain these good nutrients.
The gut-mind-body health is a balance and we can help maintain this balance in our kids through good nutrition and Dianna discusses ways to bridge the gap when they need more.

You can find her at www.diannamoroney.com with links to socials on the website. Search for her on Instagram @the.mind_body.naturopath