Comments on: Family Moment in Fitness http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/ A Journey in Fitness for Moms by a Mom Thu, 06 May 2010 15:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cindy http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/comment-page-1/#comment-2274 Cindy Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:52:49 +0000 http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/#comment-2274 Thank you Brianna for sharing your great experiences as a family. It is great when we can find activities that align with the family. We definitely don't want fitness to feel like works. It's fun! Shelley, I love the way you've incorporated the home and family talk time together as your children grew up. It becomes a natural progression of loving life in the home. I'm keeping these ideas in my back pocket as the little ones get older. Finding a way to make chores not such a chore would be fantastic. Thank you Brianna for sharing your great experiences as a family. It is great when we can find activities that align with the family. We definitely don’t want fitness to feel like works. It’s fun!

Shelley, I love the way you’ve incorporated the home and family talk time together as your children grew up. It becomes a natural progression of loving life in the home. I’m keeping these ideas in my back pocket as the little ones get older. Finding a way to make chores not such a chore would be fantastic.

]]> By: shelley http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 shelley Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:45:21 +0000 http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/#comment-2228 This is a great post. My kids are teens now, and when they were little I worked full time shift work, so (believe it or not) our best together time was when we did housework. We used to sit on the floor together to clean out cupboards, we folded the laundry together at night before story time, and we each had our jobs in the kitchen during meal preparation and clean up. My son at 19... "Mom I need to talk about something" me "OK what about" Son.. "I'm going to go put my laundry on the line. Come out with me." And there I will go and sit on the stoop while he does his laundry and tells me about the new girl... it's wonderful! I have really enjoyed some of the posts on your blog. You've sent me down memory lane! I know my readers would too. Would you consider adding your blog to the Be Naturally well community so more health conscious bloggers and readers can find you easily? Here’s the link http://www.benaturallywell.com/blog/add-your-blog/ Many blessings, and thanks for the inspiration! Shelley This is a great post. My kids are teens now, and when they were little I worked full time shift work, so (believe it or not) our best together time was when we did housework. We used to sit on the floor together to clean out cupboards, we folded the laundry together at night before story time, and we each had our jobs in the kitchen during meal preparation and clean up. My son at 19… “Mom I need to talk about something” me “OK what about” Son.. “I’m going to go put my laundry on the line. Come out with me.” And there I will go and sit on the stoop while he does his laundry and tells me about the new girl… it’s wonderful!

I have really enjoyed some of the posts on your blog. You’ve sent me down memory lane! I know my readers would too. Would you consider adding your blog to the Be Naturally well community so more health conscious bloggers and readers can find you easily? Here’s the link http://www.benaturallywell.com/blog/add-your-blog/

Many blessings, and thanks for the inspiration!
Shelley

]]> By: Brianna http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/comment-page-1/#comment-2174 Brianna Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:11:37 +0000 http://www.goworkoutmom.com/family-moment-in-fitness/#comment-2174 With two young kids, we fit fitness into our daily lives with walks to the park, playing at the park, playing in the back yard, hikes, trips to the dog park, family bike rides, and walks to my parents' house for Sunday dinner (they live a mile away). We find that the more they are active, the better they sleep! We hope to make evening bike rides/walks a lifetime habit for our family (sunlight permitting, anyhow as the winters are tough for that in Seattle!). I imagine that as the kids get older and have homework, afterschool activities, etc. that we will sit down and make one night out of the week dedicated to family fitness. To help US as parents keep the balance, it might be the kids riding bikes beside us as we run . . . though we'll have to wait and see where the kids' interests lie. I think it is important to incorporate their interests to keep them actively and happily invovled. We want them to embrace an active lifestyle, not be bullied into it. With two young kids, we fit fitness into our daily lives with walks to the park, playing at the park, playing in the back yard, hikes, trips to the dog park, family bike rides, and walks to my parents’ house for Sunday dinner (they live a mile away). We find that the more they are active, the better they sleep!
We hope to make evening bike rides/walks a lifetime habit for our family (sunlight permitting, anyhow as the winters are tough for that in Seattle!).
I imagine that as the kids get older and have homework, afterschool activities, etc. that we will sit down and make one night out of the week dedicated to family fitness. To help US as parents keep the balance, it might be the kids riding bikes beside us as we run . . . though we’ll have to wait and see where the kids’ interests lie. I think it is important to incorporate their interests to keep them actively and happily invovled. We want them to embrace an active lifestyle, not be bullied into it.

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