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Kids need Exercise and Play
The number of over weight children is on the rise. If they don’t get on the right track about 80% of them will stay overweight as adults.
Being over weight will put most of these kids at risk for several common medical problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and sleep apnea.
Encurage you child to play games that require some kind of physical activity every day. You also need to get in the mood to play if you want to keep your child interested in the activity and keep them moving. It isn’t going to hurt you to mave around a little and you may even get more benefit from the activity than they do.
Keep a ball in the yard so you can walk over and give it a kick. Once that ball in in motion our 5 year old grandson locks onto it and the game is on. It doesn’t take too much to get him to play if I am willing to play to.
Remember that this is a playing activity and you don’t want to get mad if the ball goes the wrong direction. Just out smart your opponent and make a goal in a fenced in corner of the yard so they can do most of the ball chasing.
Obesity can also adversely affect their self-esteem so help them to exercise with playing and make them winners
Ken!