• Our role model and messenger, Choosy.
• Our contemporary music designed to appeal to children and adults.
• Our movement vocabulary that serves as the framework for selecting appropriate activities to promote active learning.
• Our practical suggestions for application to any environment and limited budgets.
• Our emphasis on early and ample opportunities to stimulate and challenge the sensory, perceptual, and motor development of young children.

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"My son sits in his car seat waving his little hand back and forth saying he’s a choosy kid. He loves the choosy character. I feel that Choosy is a great character that young children can easily relate to, and look forward to seeing."

Learning about nutrition and exercise

"Identifying with Choosy has helped her to learn more about healthy food choices and has made exercise fun. As a parent I feel that having Choosy to identify with stimulates my child’s imagination and makes learning about nutrition and exercise a fun experience."

The Choosy Way!

"I have twins in the Choosy Kids Club. Between the two of them there are very few days that go by when one of them doesn’t mention doing something “The Choosy Way.” Whenever we have a chance to ride an elevator the boys look around for stairs and tell me the stairs are more “choosy.”

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Premises:
Our Mission is based on these premises:

• Children need to be more active to reduce the risks of heart disease and obesity
• We need to encourage preferences for healthy nutrition and increased activity at an early age
• Prevention of obesity and cardiovascular disease is more preferable than intervention or treatment
• Healthy eating and physical activity should be encouraged and modeled by the entire family
• Children are empowered by choice
• Role models are profoundly influential

• Products
  
  • Developing music, educational materials, play props, and other resources to promote health enhancing preferences for physical activity and nourishing nutrition for children and adults

• Relationships
  
  • Honoring the role that parents have as the first and most influential teachers of children, the role that parents, grandparents, guardians, and care givers have as valued play partners, and the role that we have for fostering collaborative professional relationships

• Training
  
  • Assisting parents and professionals in early education and care become more informed about the motor domain of learning, the significance of movement and nutrition learning experiences, age appropriate motor skill practice, opportunities for play both indoors and outside, and brain based learning for young children

• Health Messaging
  
  • Promoting Choosy, a messenger and contemporary icon who represents healthy lifestyles, and responsible decision making

• Respect
  • We respect each of our team members and value their expertise. As a nationally respected health promotion company, our team members are committed to transparency in our work, value trust as a component of respect, and, above all, respect the rights and beliefs of those with whom we work and serve.

• Honesty
  • We value honesty and open communication among peers, with our executive team, with our customers in allied health and early education, and with the children and families we serve.

• Responsibility
  • We accept responsibility for the quality of work we perform, and we value the competency and accountability for our actions, both as individuals and as team members. We recognize our responsibility to serve as a resource for parents, teachers, agencies and organizations to help empower them to promote health enhancing behaviors in children and adults.

• Teamwork and Cooperation
  • We believe that teamwork is paramount to the success of Choosy Kids, LLC, and maintain that cooperation is the most effective way to realize the organization’s mission.

• Compassion
  • Our work requires genuine compassion for our peers and for the diverse populations we serve.

• Flexibility
  • With creative thinking and open-minded solutions, we maintain a flexible environment that adapts to the diverse and ever changing needs of our market. We value team members who demonstrate the ability to be flexible and to accommodate change.

• Passion and Enjoyment
  • We believe that passion, satisfaction, and enjoyment can be directly linked with efficiency and performance of our work. Our work is motivated by enjoyment.

Dr. Carson is the Ware Distinguished Professor at West Virginia University and the Director of the WV Motor Development Center. Professor Carson has many years of teaching experience and expertise in childhood motor development.


Professor Carson has developed award winning physical activity programs for infants, babies, toddlers, pre-school, and elementary school age children in both land-based and water-based learning environments, earning recognition for involving family members as play partners. The signature feature of Dr. Carson's play programs is a character named Choosy who promotes healthy decision making by children and grownups.


Dr. Carson is recognized for designing innovative children’s programs with a focus on healthy living and active learning. Dr Carson is the lead trainer for an obesity prevention initiative for the national Office of Head Start. The Head Start project gained national recognition recently as the recipient of the 2006 ACF Honor Award for Excellence in Partnering from DHHS. Professor Carson is also on the leadership team of WV Games for Health, a series of statewide projects that have utilized total body video games to enhance the physical activity levels of children, as well as monitor the health benefits of active video game playing. The WV Games for Health project is providing teacher training and DDR equipment for every school in the state of West Virginia.