How Children Learn to be Healthy [Paperback]

This book explores the ways in which children learn to be healthy.The goal of this book is to explore the ways in which children learn to be healthy. The book examines children's understanding of health, from early childhood through adolescence, and how it affects their health behavior and actual physical health. The ways in which parents, other children, schools, media, and children's home and neighborhood influence children's health attitudes and behavior, and actual physical health are also scrutinized.The goal of this book is to explore the ways in which children learn to be healthy. The book examines children's understanding of health, from early childhood through adolescence, and how it affects their health behavior and actual physical health. The ways in which parents, other children, schools, media, and children's home and neighborhood influence children's health attitudes and behavior, and actual physical health are also scrutinized.Exploring the ways in which children learn to be healthy, this book examines children's understanding of health, from early childhood through adolescence, and how it affects their behavior and actual physical health. The study scrutinizes the ways in which parents, other children, schools, media, and children's home and neighborhood influence children's health, attitudes and behavior.1. Mechanisms and consequences of socializing children to be healthy; 2. Children's health understanding and behavior; 3. Parents' health beliefs; 4. Parents' promotion of children's health; 5. Parents' promotion of children's sexual health; 6. Peers, schools, and children's health; 7. How television viewing and other media use affects children's health; 8. The social ecology of children's health socialization; 9. Summary and conclusions. A concise yet comprehensive review of the literature related to children's development of health beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.... For anyone interested in improving the health of children and thus, the nal3§