Tween exercise
Liz Atwood is back with Tween Tuesday:
These shorter late-autumn days are a headache when it comes to making sure my energetic sons get the exercise they need. By the time they get home from school, they have only an hour or so to play outside before it gets dark.
They often try to bring their games inside. I have to constantly tell them not to throw the football in the house and I’m tired of coming home each evening to find the livingroom furniture rearranged to make room for their ad hoc soccer matches. I’ve already lost one vase due to an errant kick. The older boy tried to tape it back together with packing tape, but the younger brother snitched on him and I soon found out.
Some parents are discovering that yoga is good exercise for kids, CNN reports. I’m looking forward to basketball season to help my kids work through their energy. Do you have other solutions?
Photo: Megan O'Malley, an eighth grader at Bonnie Branch Middle School introduces students to the yoga position, prayer mudra, during Wellness Day at Bonnie Branch Middle School last year.
Baltimore Sun photo courtesy of Shannon Lee Zirkle.
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Comments
Definitely yoga. Mine are only 3 and 5, but they love to do it with me and they are quite good at it.
Posted by: Kayris | November 17, 2009 11:38 AM
If you're looking for exercise for kids during the fall/winter months, I'd highly recommend fencing. I've been a competitive fencer and assistant coach with the Chesapeake Fencing Club on Homeland Avenue for 23 years and it's a great sport for building young bodies as well as minds--it's why fencing is sometimes called "physical chess." I joke there are no dumb fencers because if you are dumb, fencing will make you smart. Plus, you burn calories at a higher rate than pro football, so what's not to like? Check out www.chesapeakefencing.com for info on classes, etc., we've been at this same site for over 17 years. We offer instruction for kids 7 and up and for adults as well. And CFC is a great club that gives back to the community as through its benefit FENCEATHON (www.fenceathon.com) and MEGABOUT fundraisers that help benefit the Sisters Academy of Baltimore, a Catholic middle school for girls from needy families in Baltimore City.
Posted by: maxmorf | November 17, 2009 12:43 PM