According to the Physical Activity Guidelines of Americans, your child should have 60 minutes (1 hour) or more of active play each day.
Active play is a vital part of your child’s early childhood development because it increases their heart rate(aerobics), builds their muscles, increases their balance, and strengthens their bones. Active play is any physical activity in which your child is actively moving at a moderate-intensity or vigorous-intensity rate. (For example, walking for a distance is moderate-intensity and playing chase is vigorous-intensity.)
Encourage your child to participate in active play activities that are enjoyable to them and offer variety. By investing in a wooden outdoor play structure, you would be providing your child with a place to enjoy many active play activities that would promote aerobic play, muscle strengthening, and bone strengthening. Your child can pretend that he is swinging from vine to vine, like Tarzan, as he swings on the swing, a mountain climber climbing up the rock wall, or an Olympian – climbing the ladder and sliding down the slide.
Make playing on your wooden outdoor play structure part of your child’s daily routine.
DID YOU KNOW:
Obesity in children has increased: Data from NHANES surveys (1976–1980 and 2003–2006) show that the prevalence of obesity has increased: for children aged 2–5 years, prevalence increased from 5.0% to 12.4%; for those aged 6–11 years, prevalence increased from 6.5% to 17.0%; and for those aged 12–19 years, prevalence increased from 5.0% to 17.6%.
For more information – look up obesity – at cdc.gov
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