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Easy ways to help your children exercise
October 21, 2008, 2:50 pm
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…Try participating with them!

Around your neighborhood, proceed for a brisk walk in the park or on a trail, with your family. If possible, try out climbing in a park with hills and rocks. Make it as a funny entertainment; the kids won’t know that they are exercising!

Take your kids to the nearby playground. Let them do plenty of exercise running here and there around the playground and you too can join them for your health benefits!

Hopscotch is a better game to make your child exercise.

Go for bike ride along with your family.

Roller-skating and ice-skating are also good choice for exercising. Both are great exercises till mom and dad avoid falling on their bums!

Swimming would serve as great exercise and it is fun for everyone. When the weather is too cold, find an indoor swimming pool to hang around.

Mom and dad can jump out too! Yes, jump on trampolines. To get a fast workout, trampolines is an excellent choice. Remember that you may find yourself sore the next morning!

Teach your child to use skipping rope. Feed them some of those little rhymes that you used to recite when you jumped when you were a kid.

Go for bowling, bowling is a great and cool physical exercise and the entire family can participate.

Make your child take the pet for a walk or let them play with the dog with a ball (if you have a dog).

Try some winter drills. There are many useful drills to do during that cold time.

Do gardening along with your kids. Many kids like gardening. This serves as a low-impact drill.

Hide-and-seek will be a great exercise for everyone. This can be played outside or sometimes indoors during rainy days.

Let everyone dance for your guitar or switch on the jukebox and let them dance for that! The kids will love to dance and everyone get laughs out of funny movements!

Use toy guns! Let everyone run around and try to shoot everyone. Kids plus squirt guns equals fun and exercise.

Try throwing a ball or disc. Let your child catch and throw for you. 

 

 

Article from: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1099448/how_to_make_your_child_exercise.html  By Kenneth Barry


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