This year we are doing tennis camp, volleyball camp and T-Ball for the younger daughter.  In the Fall we will do soccer for her as well.

These kinds of activities are affordable and are a great way to keep kids active over the summer months.

The biggest disadvantage I have seen has been the weather this year.  We missed more than half the T-ball practices and tennis luckily took place today despite a lot of rain last night.

Do a search for your local part service and see what kind of family friendly activities they have in your city.

Today we are discussing lifestyles family fitness plan at length.  Enhancing your family lifestyle is a great area to begin with and starting with lifestyles family fitness plan can improve your chances.

Exercising with the whole family helps build the family unity and your overall family fitness all at the same time! Check out these cool ways to get in shape and enjoy some great quality family time.

Dancing Machine – Get a dance machine and watch every have fun working out.

Also, the family pets can to join in the fun. If you don’t live in an area that is conducive to a family walk, then consider driving to a local field or park that has a track where animals are welcome.

One parent bikes with the older kids and gets a real workout. The other parent walks with the younger children as they improve their biking riding skills.

Wii Fitness for Everyone – To my great surprise, we were very sore from all the video game exercising we did the first day we got a Wii and Wii fitness.  My older daughter actually was sore all day.

Whether it’s playing ball in the park or dancing in the living room. The most vital thing is to make it a fun-filled family fitness event.

Getting adults to eat salads can be difficult as well.

The funny thing about salads is that it really is a habit you have to form. Forcing down spinach or broccoli once in a while can be challenging. If you eat it every day, I guarantee that at some point you will start missing it if you skip a day.

Here are some tips to getting kids to eat salads regularly.

1) Start with a salad before other things are on the table.

2) Give kids SMALL salad portions and praise them for eating it.

3) Serve a salad every day. Eventually they will just expect it and it will become a non-issue.

4) Make the kids salad out of mostly things they already like. We do a small amount of spinach with carrots and cucumbers.

That is it. Don’t give up quickly and your kids will be eating salads in no time.

 Yes.  We took our daughter 1 day after her 3rd birthday to dance classes.  She’d been wanting them for months.

The first 45 minutes was great.  Unfortunately, we signed her up for 1 hour classes.

The end result is she refused to go back into the class after the first time.

Here are some tips to help your 3 year old adjust to dance class.

1. The first time through, sign them up for a 1/2 hour course.
2. Find a place that lets you sit in.  They may not always stay in class, but they will be assured that you are there.
3. Make sure the teacher has experience with that age of kids.
4. Find out what the refund policy is in advance.  If they only go to one class and you need to pull them for six months, at least you minimize your loss.
5. Take them to see live dance before they take classes.

And lastly, relax.  If they do not like it at 3, try again at 3 1/2.  That is what we will do.

I made this list from combining things from Dr. Phil and other health reading I have done.  Your list may not be the same, but all of these things are good for everyone to have regularly.  Tweak this list for yourself, but be sure to print it out and try to get every food in your diet every day.

• Vegetables – Not corn or potato
• Fiber – Pinto Beans, Black Beans or Lentils
• Green Leaf – Spinach or Callard Greens
• Healthy Nut Mix – Including almonds and walnuts – not peanuts.
• Asprin
• Fish (Salmon at least 3 times a week)
• Water
• Low Fat Milk
• Coffee
• Cooked Tomato
• Low Fat Yougurt
• Sunflower Seeds
• Red Wine – 2 times per week or more.

This is my personal list, but it works very well for me.  With the kids, we take out coffee, red wine, asprin and fish (vegetarian) and add things like flax seed, soy sauce, berries and bananas.

They key is to identify what you want in your diet and post a healthy checklist that everyone mentally checks every day.  This works like a charm and is a great way to support each other.

Our first trip we did not take safety gear – imagining that we’d be there for a few minutes and never let her go.  It turned out she was there for almost two hours and did some independent skating right away.  Our advice is take a bike helmet and any other desired safety gear, because you never know.

How do you get your young child interested in ice skating?

Our daughter Maya watched ice skating on television first.  She loved the outfits and the skating and wanted to go right away.  We actually used this as a reward for potty training – you can’t skate as well wearing a diaper.

Six things you can do to help your young child get a fast start in ice skating:

1. Get stiff skates to support their ankles or cut a cardboard tube to insert into the skate and give them more ankle support.
2. After one or two trips, buy them skates.  You can get great deals on skates at a used sporting goods store and they quickly pay for themselves.  Then you just trade them in when you need a bigger size.
3. Practice marching before you go.  The first thing they will do is march on the ice with their skates.  Later they will glide.
4. Take a skilled skater with you.  You cannot just shove a new skater out there.  Someone has to be with them until they develop great skills.
5. Take pictures, clap and encourage their small successes.  They will love it.
6. Build a lifestyle where the whole family can go during the day when there are not crowds.  Doing things during the day, during the work week is a great advantage.

This is one of those great workouts that you and your kids can enjoy all their life.