Playing With Your Baby

Floor Exercises:

• Pull him/her up to a sitting position
• Pull him/her up to a standing position
• Hold his/her hands to help balance him/her while he/she maintains a standing or seated position
• Help him/her do deep knee bends or "jumping"
  
• Let him/her just play around on the floor on a thick blanket to pad the ground
• When it is warm out let your baby just lay around naked on the floor
• When your baby can sit up on their own try rolling a colorful ball to them
  

Lap Exercises:

• All of the above
• Bounce him/her on your knee(incorporate nursery rhymes as they get older)
• Play nursery rhymes

Back-to-School: Healthy Lunches

School lunches make it hard to make sure you child(ren) is/are eating healthy because you can't be sure if they are eating the healthy food that you have sent with them. Well I found a website that has some idea's for lunches that your kids should love, but they are outside the box. I am just going to give you the link because there is no way I could share my favorites since I love all the idea's. I hope this will help you to get your child(ren) to eat their healthy lunches that you pack for them.

Back-to-School: Healthy School Lunches and Snacks

Exercising as a Family

Exercise Idea's as a Family

Here are some idea's for you to exercise as a family so we can all stay in shape.

• Take a walk before or after dinner.
• Turn on some music and dance in your living room like no one else is watching, it will be good for a laugh and good for the heart.
• Make a game out of cleaning your house. (such as you are going to be attacked by aliens and you have to pick up all the "moon rocks" before they can get to you.)
• Turn TV commercials into workout breaks. (when the show goes to commercial have a competition to see who can do the most push ups or something until the show comes back on.)
• Have a weekly sports night.
• Take the kids to a walk/run for a charity.
• Take the dog (and the kids) for a walk.

Those are just a few things but as you can see it is easy to incorporate workouts into your daily life, as long as they are fun and creative.