Who says family workouts have to be boring? Get together as a family and do something that you love to stay healthy. Exercise is beneficial for everyone no matter what your age. But, sometimes just the word makes you want to hide. Keeping fit doesn’t have to seem like work if you do it with [...]
Making exercise a priority is a challenge for everyone. And for parents it can be especially difficult to find time to workout. When summer arrives it can be even more tricky with kids home from school and involved in extracurricular activities. But, finding time for regular physical activity is so important that it should be [...]
At 1379, we like to promote healthy, active family activities, so I have been trying to figure out how this grandmother can best contribute to the “active” part. While I am certainly willing to play soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball…I find that I am just too slow and crickety to really be more than a goalie [...]
Start with a few minutes of connecting with the breath. For example, encourage the children to pull the belly in on each inhale and push it out on each exhale, and then reverse the movements and push the belly out on the inhale and pull it in on the exhale. Don’t ask children to hold [...]
Mike and I started a tradition about a year ago that we always try to get the whole family together on Friday nights for Family Fun Night. Our original rationale was that if we can get our kids used to it now, then maybe when they’re fifteen they’ll feel this overwhelming familial guilt if they [...]
I am lying in bed last night after a long day of work, taking care of the kids, and cleaning up the house when I turn on the television. The kids have just gone to bed and it is my time to relax, do some work on the computer, and decompress. I am starting to [...]
