Do you feel exercise as an important for your kid’s daily routine?

[kimmills222]

My thinking is that exercise is equally important for kids as do the adults to live a healthy life. And the exercises for kids are less vigorous more of fun that the adults. So would you induce exercising habit in your kid?

I never really think about it. They do lots of running around in parks, climbing, pretending to be animals, copying song actions etc and seem to be 'exercising' all day.

Definately! Pre schoolers need about 3 hours a day of excercise.

" So would you induce exercising habit in your kid?"

I give my children opportunities for sport, music and general playing about. I attempt to restrict screen time. Both children walk to their respective schools.

Not 'organised exercise' - shouldn't be necessary as long as they are doing what comes naturally to 3 yr olds - running about, playing, walking to places, investigating, and generally being active.

Exercise no, movement yes.

I find the idea of categorizing what small children are doing as 'exercise' rather than encouraging movement to be the opposite of what is needed. The idea that we can do X amount of exercise and that's all we need to do physically causes a lot of problems (and people who do so might look better but are rarely actually healthier on paper than those who don't - because they're doing the same thing 90% of their day).

Getting into a habit of movement, of walking, carrying, of using bodies for a purpose rather than trying to squeeze in an exercise vitamin is what I try to do, though disabilities often get in the way, by modelling this as much as I can.

Physical activity is important yes, and I incorporate lots of activities into the nursery timetable, such as going to the park, football, dancing, zumba, action rhymes, climbing, jumping, swinging, walking etc.

Walking to and from places counts as does tearing about the place. As long as they're not plonked in front of the tv and driven everywhere then you can get it all in.