| As any parent will tell you, kids are
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| | the sidewalk or in the yard. One bucket
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| moving all the time. Nature has
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| | is the starting "line" and the other
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| programmed kids to move, but many of them
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| | bucket is the finish "line." Kids walk
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| are not moving because they are stuck in
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| | backwards from start to finish.AROUND THE
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| front of the television, the computer,
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| | TOWN. Using poster board or grocery
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| and computer games. This is where
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| | store boxes, make location signs for your
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| parenting comes in, because you, the
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| | community: city hall, library, school,
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| parent or grandparent, can foster
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| | recreation center, movie theater,
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| children's exercise.Kids should wear
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| | baseball field, and similar locations.
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| sturdy shoes and comfy socks without
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| | Number the signs and arrange them in a
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| holes. (Leave the flip-flops at home.)
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| | circle. Kids start at number one and
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| They should also wear caps or hats to
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| | walk round the town. How many steps did
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| protect them from the sun and sunscreen.
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| | each child take?SPEED WALKING. Each
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| Do some stretching exercises with your
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| | child wears a pedometer as his or her
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| kids beforehand. Give each child his or
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| | waist. At the sound of go, kids walk as
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| her own water bottle and pedometer.
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| | fast as they can across the playground or
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| Measure each child's stride before you
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| | a field. Who took the most steps? Who
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| start these walking activities.Some
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| | took the least?RUN-WALK RACE. Repeat the
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| activities are appropriate for backyard
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| | speed walking activity, only this time
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| fun, while others get your kids out into
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| | the kids run 10 steps and walk 10
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| the community. Fitness is a family
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| | steps.STEP AND SLIDE. Repeat the speed
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| affair, so walk with your kids. You will
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| | walking activity, only this time the kids
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| be amazed at the discoveries you make and
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| | step with their feet, slide their right
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| the things you learn about each other.
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| | feet up to the left, and continue walking
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| Now tie those shoelaces, tie a sweater
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| | this way until they have crossed the
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| around your waist, and get going!COUNT
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| | playground or field.Don't let your kids
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| THE BIRDS. Young kids count the number
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| | become couch potatoes. Get them off the
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| of birds they see during the walk. Older
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| | couch and keep them moving. Keep
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| kids and adults identify the birds by
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| | yourself moving, too. Everyone in the
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| name. Read about the birds in a bird
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| | family can walk the fitness trail to
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| book when you get home.COLOR SEARCH.
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| | better health and a better life.Copyright
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| During the walk kids look for one color,
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| | 2006 by Harriet Hodgson
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| such as red. Anything they see that is
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| | Hodgson has been a freelance nonfiction
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| that is this color, such as a car, stop
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| | writer for 28 years and is a member of
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| sign, and a red jacket, counts as one
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| | the Association of Health Care
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| point. Who saw the most things?BABY
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| | Journalists and the Association for Death
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| STEPS. Place two plastic ice cream
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| | Education and Counseling. She taught for
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| buckets on the sidewalk or in the yard.
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| | a dozen years before changing careers to
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| Using baby steps - touching the heel of
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| | become a writer. Her 24th book, "Smiling
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| one foot to the toes of the other - kids
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| | Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief,"
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| walk between the buckets.LONGEST STRIDE.
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| | written with Lois Krahn, MD, is available
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| Place two plastic ice cream buckets on
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| | from A five-star review of the book is
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| the sidewalk or in the yard. Using their
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| | posted on Amazon. Another review is
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| longest stride, kids walk from the first
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| | posted on the American Hospice Foundation
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| bucket to the second.BACKWARD BOUNCE.
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| | website under the "School Corner"
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| Place two plastic ice cream buckets on
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| | heading.
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