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Suggested Family Activities to Replace TV Viewing

by J. Hendrick|P. Weissman
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Promoting an Active Lifestyle, Family Fun, Family Ideas and Inspiration
  • Take a walk
  • Challenge your child to invent different ways to move about your home or outside; go to the kitchen as slowly as you can, then crawl back, then hop back again, and so on
  • Read a book together
  • Do a puzzle together
  • Write down your child's words in a letter to a loved one, then decorate it together
  • Find something you use every day in your house and make it fancy- how about a toothbrush with a glitter handle?
  • Go outside to rake leaves, shovel snow, gather interesting objects that you find
  • Get down on the floor and build something with blocks, tangrams, Legos
  • Ride bikes with your child
  • Swim at the local Y
  • Brainstorm ideas with your child about what would be more fun than watching TV

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