ACHPER's Active and Healthy Magazine is aimed at physical educators, health educators, fitness leaders and the generalist  teacher.  The emphasis is on informative articles of interest for teachers of Health and Physical Education encompassing curriculum in schools, junior sport, nutrition, fitness and physical activity, and insights into future ways of motivating children and young people to be active and healthy.

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Highlights of this edition include an article on involving students in game creation and management (by John Quay and Jacqui Peters) and Felicity-ann Lewis has questioned why childhood obesity and the 'obesity crisis' continues to be an alarming issue in many countries including Australia.

Emerging literature in the resilience research has a particular focus on encouraging children to adopt strategies that facilitate emotional regulation.

In this blog post, Sarah Tillot, PhD Candidate and Lecturer in Health at the University of Wollongong, outlines some self-regulation strategies that can be adopted for children to firstly manage their emotions, then apply techniques to solve the problem.