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Creating Fun Physical Activity
What You Can Do as a Parent

• Consider how children learn couch potato skills. Become aware of and take responsibility for yourself as a model of physical activity for children.

• Remember when selecting movement activities, fun always needs to be the main goal.
   

• Create choices that children can do by themselves, with friends and with family:
   

  • Children by themselves can:
    Dance to kids music    Practice somersaults    Pretend to play a sport

  • With Friends:
    Play games like duck duck goose or hopscotch
    Take a ballet or swimming class

  • With Family:
    Go on a walk
    Play at the park or beach
    Ride bikes
     

• Limit sedentary activities to 1-2 hours per day. Consider unplugging the TV altogether and see what possibilities bloom.
   

• Make increasing physical activity a family affair.

22% of U.S. children are overweight
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22% of U.S. children are overweight
(more than 50% increase over the last 30 years)
In Southeast Alaska the rate of overweight
kids & youth may be as high as 39%