The New Year is a fresh opportunity for youth development staff to encourage healthy habits, with a positive outlook. Here are a few ways to help children re-set and achieve their full potential:

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Psychologists offer a number of reasons why “losing weight” is often unsuccessful, including that the phrase is not optimistic—it is a negative rather than positive resolution.

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Remember that healthy resolutions for children are not always related to nutrition and physical activity. Completing homework, donating money, volunteering, learning a new instrument or skill, or practicing positive self-affirmations are many ways that youth can begin to develop healthy habits.

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Losing weight is among the most popular American resolutions when it comes to celebrating a New Year. It also has an 80% failure rate by the second week of February.

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Applying a positive mindset to resolutions increases the chance of success — similar to the way Y staff introduces Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (HEPA) standards in our afterschool programs and summer camps.

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