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Play Time Is Healthy For Everyone

Play time doesn’t mean a waste of time. Not at all! Play time can help your family (young and old) improve flexibility, build strength, and learn healthy habits that will last a lifetime. Try these family activities: A family bike ride. One of my favorite memories of summer is hopping on my bike with my dad and my brother. It seemed like we would ride forever. Sometimes we raced to keep up with each other. Sometimes we’d challenge ourselves by biking over a bridge. My favorite thing was to bike to the canal, then walk down closer to the water. … Continue reading →

Your Playground Routine

Are you heading to the park with your kids today? It’s warm outside and kids love summer time to get outside and run, play and go nuts. If you live in a really hot state like Texas (hey there), then heading to the park in the morning means you get to enjoy the outdoors, getting the kids some physical activity and giving you an opportunity for a tough, 10 minute workout that won’t cost you a thing and can supercharge your whole day. Your Workout So, while you’re at the park this morning, here’s a workout for you to really … Continue reading →

Pictures Capture Milestones

Three walls in my house are covered nearly floor to ceiling in nothing but pictures. There are pictures of family, friends, moments and more prevalently our daughter. As I was making coffee this morning, I leaned back against the kitchen counter and started looking at this wall of fame. The majority of the pictures on the wall track my daughter’s progress from about an hour after she was born to her current age of five. The larger parts of these are from that first day mark the milestones in her life. The first day she was with us. Her first … Continue reading →

Kids Need To Play

Regular physical activity builds strong muscles and bones. It helps children to sleep at night. It helps them remain alert during the day. It helps to prevent chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes. It can even help kids that seem like they have ADHD and don’t. There was a stretch of time a few years back where every child that showed bad behavior was labeled hyper active or attention-deficit or both. There’s a trick though, did you know kids are sleeping less today than they did twenty years ago? Thirty years ago? Did you know that when kids are … Continue reading →

Pretend with Your Child and Improve his Future

Abstract Thinking Just about everything we do in life involves abstract thinking. We use abstract thinking to plan for something in the future, predict consequences, calculate time or distance, and desire something that isn’t right in front of us. “A chocolate shake sounds really good right now.” “This room would look better painted blue.” Or, “If I take Main Street, maybe I’ll get there faster.” For the average child, the transition to abstract thinking (from the real to the imaginary) is automatic. Johnny wears a cape and runs around the house, imagining he can fly. Monica pours water into cups … Continue reading →