- Allow your child to select only one or two favourite TV programs per day. For the hour that they watch, get a commitment for equal time doing physical activity. Make the same guidelines for yourself.
- Find out who can do the most jumping jacks during the commercial breaks.
- During commercial breaks run up and down the stairs, do sit-ups or push-ups, stretch, play a relay games with your family, walk on the spot or around the house, or play tug-of-war with the dog.
- Don't use the remote.
- Find a music channel, get out your dancing shoes and try to develop a new dance with your child!
- Play catch throughout the television program or during commercials.
- See how long you can keep a balloon in the air during the television program.
- Rent an active video for your child. Do the dances and activity routines with them.
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