It can be difficult to persuade your children to get off the couch and play outdoors, but there are strategies to encourage them to exercise while keeping it fun.

Though children clearly like exercising with friends, less than half of kids actually do it, according to the study. Of course, encouragement to exercise by peers only worked if the peers were, in ...

Experts say kids should get about an hour of exercise every day -- but that doesn’t mean you should tell them that, Bethin says. “If exercising for 30 minutes feels like too much to kids, ...