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Welcome to R.B.'s Happy, Healthy Home Page!
Throughout this website, you'll find puzzles, activities, games and brain-teasers. They're fun to do - and they have important information for you to discover and share with your family, too.
Partners
Let's Hear It for Clean Hands!
Keeping your hands clean can help keep you healthy. If you have germs on your own hands, you're also spreading them to everything you touch and everyone you meet. That's a present no one wants to get!
R.B. says, "Hand washing is easy - bubbles are fun!"
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Printable Activities
Parent Tips
- Model proper hand washing for your child! It's a great way to stress the life-long importance of clean hands.
- Many germs can live for weeks on surfaces like computer keyboards. Make regular hand washing a family tradition!
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Join the Energy Express!
Eating healthy foods can give you energy to do the things you like to do! Making nutritious choices is something easy to do every day. Here's how...
R.B. says...
Stay Safe in the Kitchen!
- Your family can keep food safe with these Four Simple Steps:
- Clean
- Separate
- Cook
- Chill
- Keep sharp knives away from younger children.
- Keep hot pots on back burners.
Printable Activities
Parent Tips
- Remind your kids that not only is healthy eating and activity good for them - but it helps them do the everyday things they love to do... and do them better!
- According to the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines, "occasional foods" should not play a large role in your child's healthy diet.
- Get moving with your family! Try setting up your own real-life Backyard Olympics at home.
- Promote children's good kitchen safety habits with this fun kitchen safety patrol badge!
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Spotlight On: Safety!
Staying safe is something you and your family can work on every day. Talk about the ways you can stay safe together.
Play it safe...
Printable Activities
Parent Tips
- Use the computer safety examples in Staying Safe Online as a conversation-starter with your child. Help him/her discover when to draw-the-line online, and write in your own suggestions together, too.
- Take a neighborhood "safe spots" tour with your child.
- Did you know? Many neighborhoods are using the national Safe Place signs to help children remember the safe places to go. Check to see if your community has them!
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Keep Smiling!
Taking care of your teeth is easy. Here are some simple ways to keep your smile bright so you can share it with others.
R.B. says "Be Sure To Brush..."
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Printable Activities
Parent Tips
- Remind your child: "Your smile is something you can give to everyone you know!"
- Help your child to remember to brush: Top, Bottom, Inside, Outside, Tongue
- Plaque reacts with food to make acid every time you eat. Each "acid attack" lasts for 20 minutes... and these acid attacks can cause cavities. Remind your child to limit the number of times they eat snacks each day.
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My Happy Healthy Journal!
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