J&D Ultracare has been providing high quality nursing services to medically fragile children for over 30 years! We’ve helped many patients in Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam County, Westchester, Sullivan, Ulster, and Orange Counties. We go and visit our patients in their homes to ensure that they are as comfortable as possible.

Not only is it important to be healthy, it’s also important to be active as well! Unfortunately, only 1 in 3 children exercise every single day. Even worse, 1 out of 3 children are either overweight or obese in the United States. From these statistics, it’s clear that kids need to be way more active!

That’s why we wanted to share an article from healthychildren.org called ’11 Ways to Encourage Your Child to Be Physically Active’. This article offers some fantastic tips that will help your children get more exercise. We’ve selected five of our favorites tips below, but you can read the full article by clicking here if you want to learn more.

1. Find a fun activity. Help your child find a sport that she enjoys. The more she enjoys the activity, the more likely she will continue it. Get the entire family involved. It is a great way to spend time together.
2. Choose an activity that is developmentally appropriate. For example, a 7- or 8-year-old child is not ready for weight lifting or a 3-mile run, but soccer, bicycle riding, and swimming are all appro­priate activities.
3. Plan ahead. Make sure your child has a convenient time and place to exercise.
4. Provide a safe environment. Make sure your child’s equipment and chosen site for the sport or activity are safe. Make sure your child’s clothing is comfortable and appropriate.
5. Provide active toys. Young children especially need easy access to balls, jump ropes, and other active toys.

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J&D Ultracare greatly cares about the health of children, specializing in pediatrics in the New York Metropolitan area along with the greater Hudson Valley area. Not only do we provide quality nursing services in the patient’s home, we also share health information for kids here on the blog.

Last week, we wrote a post called ‘Five Tips That Will Keep Your Kids Active‘. We wanted to show parents that there are plenty of ways to encourage their children to stay active. Exercise is extremely important because 1 out of 3 children are overweight or obese in the United States.

This week, we want to show you ten exciting activities that you can do with your kids outside. These come from a website called Super Healthy Kids, which has an article with 31 different outdoor activities. If you’re interested in learning more, you can read the full article by clicking here. Here are our favorites from the post:

1. Organize an outdoor playdate.  It is always more fun when your kids have friends to play with and they are most likely to want to stay outside longer.
2. Let your kids plant a mini-garden.  If they are in charge of it, then they will have to go outside to water, weed and watch over it.
3. Help your kids built a fort outside with a rope and an old sheet.   Suggest other items that might be fun for them to use on their fort.
4.  Go for regular walks, bike rides or runs as a family.  Many urban communities have trails and bike paths through parks, riverways or lakefronts.
5. Have a picnic lunch at the playground or park.
6.  Create an outdoor scavenger hunt where your kids collect items from nature.
7. Try geocaching.  If you have never heard of it, geocaching is a real outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices.  You navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache hidden at that location.  This is a great guide to get you started.
8.  Make a bucket list of different parks you want to try and visit.
9.  Give your kids a container and have them collect different kinds of bugs.
10.  Turn your yard into an obstacle course – use cones, a hula hoop and other things that can create obstacles.

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