FEATURED ARTICLES BY DR. MELINDA BOSSENMEYER

A series of articles on children’s health topics such as physical activity, bullying, school playgrounds, school recess, nutrition, PE, childhood obesity, and play.

Playground Liability: Accident or Injury

Playground Liability: Accident or Injury by Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor By Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer Dr. Bossenmeyer is an expert witness on playground injury and playground supervision cases. She is also a retired Elementary School Principal. Duty of Care On average, 17 [...]

By |2024-04-17T09:55:34-07:00December 6th, 2012|Featured Articles, Playground Supervision, Supervision|0 Comments
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Head Start Body Start in Body Building?

Sounds like a tiny tot gym for aspiring World Body Builders like California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but instead it is a new federal program aimed at giving preschoolers a head start on future healthy behaviors and generally good health. The new center called the National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play  AKA Head Start Body [...]

By |2021-06-16T21:11:09-07:00December 6th, 2012|Featured Articles, Play|0 Comments
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Nature Deficit Disorder: Does Your Child Ask “Are They Real”?

Nature Deficit Disorder: Does your child ask "Are they real?" By Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor Download Article Nature Deficit Disorder On a recent trip, my 6-year-old granddaughter noticed some flowers on the counter in our hotel. Instinctively, she touched them, followed immediately by the question, [...]

By |2024-04-17T11:06:47-07:00August 23rd, 2012|Featured Articles|0 Comments
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Why Play? The Importance of Play

Why Play? The Importance of Play By Melinda Bossenmeyer, Ed.D., The Recess Doctor We all need to play. For the generation of Americans that lived by the daily adage, “you must come inside when the street lights come on,” the importance of play was intuitive and occurred [...]

By |2024-04-17T11:05:20-07:00August 23rd, 2012|Featured Articles, Play|1 Comment
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Can Physical Education Make You Smarter?

For some time, researchers have known that physical education and exercise changes the structure of the brain, resulting in improvements in concentration, fidgeting and creates new brain cells. The body-mind link is well documented. But current thinking and actions (like eliminating recess and physical education) lead me to question if some decisions reflect the cliché [...]

By |2022-11-06T13:21:46-08:00August 23rd, 2012|Featured Articles, PE|0 Comments
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Keeping Kids Cool at School

Keeping Kids Cool At School When is it too hot for recess? By Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer, The Recess Doctor When is it too hot for recess? As most of the nation head back to school facing triple-digit heat principals will begin to ask themselves, "When is it too [...]

By |2024-04-17T10:54:03-07:00August 23rd, 2012|Featured Articles, playground, Recess|1 Comment
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Countdown to Good Health and Nutrition: 5-4-3-2-1 Go!®

Who do you think has a greater influence as a role model on health and nutrition: a parent, teacher or young adults? The Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC), believes its young adults, and they are taking advantage of that fact. They have started a program using about 24 high school students to [...]

By |2022-11-06T13:46:40-08:00August 21st, 2012|Nutrition|0 Comments
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