Family Life put together a survey that shows just what a family needs to function as a healthy unit. Many of the points are important, but I think points that stick out for creating a healthy family time are: Developing healthy living and Eating habits and Developing and Improving family communications.
A school, a church, a nutritionist can offer much to learn and glean from, but really, it is our job as the parents to teach our children everything about life and that includes healthy eating, exercise and living habits!
Our children are learning what is and isn't healthy from us. According to the CDC, about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese, and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese. So we need to be mindful of the choices we are making in regards to being physically active (especially in front of them) as well as serving healthy meals to our family.
We need to show them that exercise is important by actually doing it, that means doing your Wii Fit, going to the gym or a walk and also being active as a family.
Last night as we got out of the car in the gym parking lot, my daughter said, "Are you going to ezercize mommy?" I told her, "Yes I am, so I can be healthy."
Since we're talking about spending time as a family I wanted to give you some activities for exercising as a family.
Family Fitness Ideas:
- Family Burst Training
- Backyard Fun-Playing Tag, Frisbee, Football
- Dancing to your favorite tunes or YouTube videos
- Go for a walk when it's nice out
- Jump in the leaves
- Anything that gets every one's heart rate up
What family fitness activities do you like to do?
It's Healthy 2day Wednesdays 27th Link Up! So glad you're here! Thank you for stopping by! Hope you'll take a second to read some of the other entries! I hope we will all learn something to help make our families healthier!
Rules for this Link up:
- Share an idea, tip, recipe, things to avoid, something new to try, natural remedy, alternative medicine, going "green" tips, etc. that will help us to remain or become more healthy!
- If this is your first time participating read more info & get button here
- Comment on someone who linked up, I'm sure they would LOVE to hear from you!
- Add button or link back to that days link up
- Spread the word so we can learn more ideas on keep our families healthy
- If you're not participating today, I hope you'll come back & join in!
**Be sure to check out tomorrow's series the Five Flu Fighting Foods, I'll be joined once again with several awesome bloggers! Tomorrow's food is Garlic... If you have any garlic posts, be sure to add them to the link up!
*Linked to: Women Living Well, Homemaking Linkup, Traditional Tuesdays, Titus 2sdays, Works for Me, Simple Lives Thursday
*Linked to: Women Living Well, Homemaking Linkup, Traditional Tuesdays, Titus 2sdays, Works for Me, Simple Lives Thursday
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Hi, thanks for featuring my Steak and Kidney Stew! This week I'm sharing two yummy recipes - Asian Dumpling Soup and Tacos on Rice. Thanks for hosting!
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Rachel, thanks so much for stopping by Savoring Today and inviting me to link up here! It's always great to find other like minded bloggers :)Happy Thanksgiving!
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