If you would like to keep your kids active and help them to avoid the obesity crisis sweeping through America why not show them a cool activity like yoga. Doing yoga together will provide you and your kids some peaceful quality time with one another as you learn yoga if done correctly. You may think there is no way that your kid may enjoy yoga but just introduce them to it and see where it goes from there. It could become a new hobby for them as well if they begin to show some interest in it, so you may turn your pride and joy into one of your little yoga buddies. Having more then one kid in the same age around them will normally be lots of fighting between them. By showing them yoga you give them a hobby they can do that has them working together while doing a healthy activity instead of fighting with one another.
Let me give you some good examples to why you should introduce your kids to yoga. Most kids like to move around and learn new things that's why they ask so many questions about the everything that is around them. Learning yoga give them the ability to move and learn new positions and techniques they might like doing. Sure yoga doesn't require as much movement as tag or hide and go seek but being able to bend and flex your muscles from within a small area involves a lot of movement as well. If you still feel that your kid wouldn't find yoga as interesting then engage their interest by adding a fun element into it. Rather you take your kid or kids to an instructor or teach them yourself make sure it is something fun and unique about it that will make it appealing to the child.
Here is some cool ideas that you can use to spring up some interest in your child about yoga. The fun thing about doing yoga is that you can be very creative as you learn and instruct it. That give you a unlimited amount of opportunities to bring a unique approach to yoga. Even while stretching and the beginning exercises you can start off with fun exercises such as jumping jacks to get some enthusiasm running. Make sure to keep the environment fun and warm to make the kid wanting to come back and learn some more. If you are an instructor running a class you can place kiddy pictures on the wall and do your yoga to some kids tunes. It's about building a environment that is child friendly and that will help the chances of them liking yoga.
This is for the parents that decide to take their children to yoga classes where they will be around other children around their ages. Here they will be able to learn yoga as well as socialize and make new friends with the other kids inside the class. Plus it can be good as a activity for the kids to do after school. Your child may be even more interested in yoga if they had a friends that is doing it with them. If you don't have time to bring your child to a yoga class you can still teach your child through fun interactive games such as yoga for the Nintendo Wii. Doing this allows the whole family to get in the action.
Just give it a try with your kids they will hopefully like it but if the decide that yoga is just not for them then at least you tried.
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