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Balance is a key in helping your child maintain a healthy weight. Balance the calories your child eats and drinks with the calories used through physical activity and normal growth.

Overweight and obese children and teens should reduce the rate of weight gain while allowing normal growth and development.

Balancing calories will help kids develop healthy eating habits as it will offer your kids nutritious meals and snacks with an appropriate number of calories. You can help them develop healthy eating habits by making favorite dishes healthier and by reducing calorie-rich temptations.

First - parents should encourage healthy eating habits as Small changes can lead to a recipe for success!

• Provide plenty of vegetables, fruits and whole-grain products.
• Include low-fat or non-fat milk or dairy products.
• Choose lean meats, poultry, fish, lentils and beans for protein.
• Serve reasonably sized portions.
• Encourage children to drink lots of water.
• Limit sugar-sweetened beverages, sugar, sodium and saturated fat.        

Second - parents can make children favorite dishes become healthier by trying to search healthy recipes through internet or by healthy cooking books. Parents can cook healthy dishes by following healthy tips. 

Third - solutions are parents should help their kids understand the benefits of being physically active. Parents should teach children that physical activity has a great health benefits like.

• Strengthening bone
• Decreasing blood pressure
• Reducing stress and anxiety
• Increasing self-esteem
• Helping with weight management 

Fourth - solution are by help kids staying active as children and teens should participate in at least 60 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity most days of the week, and every day if possible. You can set a great example! Start adding physical activity to your own daily routine and encourage your child to join you. Some examples of moderate-intensity physical activity include:

• Brisk walking
• Playing tag
• Jumping rope
• Playing soccer
• Swimming
• Dancing 

 Fifth - solution are by reduce sedentary time. Although quiet time for reading and homework is fine but children must be limited their “screen time” (TV, video games, Internet) to no more than two hours a day. Parents should encourage their children to find fun activities to do with family members or on their own that simply involve more activity so that children will move more and it will burn their calories.

Sixth - solution are Reaching and maintaining an appropriate body weight for children as it is important. In treating most overweight children, the main emphasis should be to prevent weight gain above what's appropriate for expected increases in height. For many children this may mean limited or no weight gain while they grow taller.