{"id":11026,"date":"2020-04-15T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/?p=11026"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:53:32","slug":"7-tips-to-encourage-children-to-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/blog\/7-tips-to-encourage-children-to-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Tips to Encourage Children to Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stimulate Your Kids to Stay Fit<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Working out is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. If you don\u2019t make time for exercise, you will have to make time for illness. However, <\/b><\/span>this 2018 study<\/b><\/a> reveals that the majority of Indonesians exercise less than two hours per week. According to <\/b><\/span>this Jakarta Post article<\/b><\/a>, only 5% of the children in Jakarta are physically fit. Kids spend too much time behind television, computer, phone, and electronic screens.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Being unfit increases the chances of cardiovascular and chronic diseases, as well as psychological disorders. But how can you motivate children to exercise more often? We have enlisted 10 tips on how to make your children more physically active.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Be a role model<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This is an obvious one, yet many parents forget it. Your kids mimic your behaviour so if you are a good example and exercise quite often, they will take over this healthy habit. Try to involve the whole family for maximum effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Walk\/bike as much as possible<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever you and your children need to go somewhere close by, try to walk or bike to that destination. Not only is it good for the health of you and your kids, but it\u2019s also beneficial to the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Limit television, computer, and mobile phones<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Although we believe that learning digital skills is an essential part of a child\u2019s education, you may want to limit the time they spend on screens. Digital detox becomes more and more important to developing social skills as children grow and develop. Show them that there are other things to enjoy themselves in life, like playing outside with friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If you don\u2019t make time for exercise, you will have to make time for illness.” – Confucius\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Involve your kids in household activities<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Have your children mow the lawn or help clean the house. It\u2019s an easy way to get them physically active and teach them discipline at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Link sports with fun<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Kids like to have fun. If you can make physical activities joyful and amusing, it\u2019s more likely that they will continue to exercise in the future. Pick a sport they genuinely like, play some music while working out, or make a competition out of it with prizes. Gamify the activity and kids\u2019 interest levels spike.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Include others<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

If you make exercise a social activity, kids will enjoy sports even more. Invite your child\u2019s friends to join you. The social factor of exercise is a crucial factor for maintaining the habit.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Give sport-related gifts<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

When it\u2019s your child\u2019s birthday or when there is a holiday, try to give them a gift that encourages exercise. Examples of this include bikes, sporting clothes or shoes, tennis or badminton rackets, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Start using these tips today to encourage your children to exercise more often. It\u2019s important to guide them, not force them. If you keep working out fun, they will initiate sport spontaneously. This way, you can help them live a healthier life.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore International School implements sports in its curriculum. We also encourage students to take on extracurricular activities such as badminton or football.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Do you want to make sure your children adopt a healthy lifestyle in their school? Enrol<\/a> them now in one of the Singapore International Schools!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n1 <\/span>Statista Research Department. (2018 16). Indonesia – number of hours spent on exercise\/participating in sport activities 2016-2018. Retrieved March 26, 2020, from https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/562524\/indonesia-number-of-hours-spent-on-exercise-participating-in-sport-activities\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2 <\/span>The Jakarta Post. (2018, October 17). Only 5 percent of Jakarta\u2019s children physically fit.. Retrieved March 26, 2020, from https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2018\/10\/17\/only-5-percent-of-jakartas-children-physically-fit-says-official.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3 <\/span>Singapore International School. (2018, November 7). Enrol Now. Retrieved March 26, 2020, from https:\/\/sisschools.org\/enrol-now<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working out is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. If you don\u2019t make time for exercise, you will have to make time for illness. However, this 2018 study reveals that the majority of Indonesians exercise less than two hours per week. According to this Jakarta Post article, only 5% of the children in Jakarta are physically fit. Kids spend too much time behind television, computer, phone, and electronic screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[136,137,131],"tags":[226,231,213,215,43,229,218,217,227,205,202,78,210,232,221,224,216,208,225,223,51,53,54,228,203,209,220,58,219,222,212,66,211,70,230,206,204,97,214,207],"class_list":["post-11026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-faculty-admin-writing","category-sis-myanmar-blog-posts","tag-activities","tag-badminton","tag-behaviour","tag-bike","tag-children","tag-competition","tag-detox","tag-digital","tag-discipline","tag-encourage","tag-exercise","tag-family","tag-fit","tag-football","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-health","tag-healthy","tag-household","tag-illness","tag-indonesia","tag-international","tag-jakarta","tag-joy","tag-kids","tag-lifestyle","tag-outside","tag-parents","tag-play","tag-risks","tag-role-model","tag-school","tag-screen","tag-singapore","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-stimulate","tag-teachers","tag-walk","tag-work-out"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12987,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11026\/revisions\/12987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}