Sunday, April 6, 2014

How To Feel Like A Kid Again

By Richardo Manning


When you were a kid, you may have found it a much easier job to get out of the house and do something fun with your life every day. You may have enjoyed bike riding or hiking around your local neighborhood. Books and the occasional television program may have been a slight distraction, but nothing compared to today's youth.

Every year at a younger and younger age, children own electronics or even smart phones that are able to download games and applications to entertain them. Children no longer have any obligation to go anywhere for anything as they can do practically anything they want via the Internet. As they have lost the motivation to get up and go, they have also started to lose interest.

Before you let your kid jump in, check out the bouncy house first. There are several things to look for. First, check out the surroundings. If a bouncy house is too close to a wall, a house, a cotton candy stand, or whatever else, safety nets might stop a flying body before it hits one of these solid objects. Second, make sure the bouncy house is staked securely to the ground. Outdoor bouncy houses have been known to be caught up in big bursts of wind and flown off, people and all. Third, look for an inspection sticker. Only a handful of states actually require inspections, but if you do find a sticker, you can feel more secure about letting your kid in.

The easiest way to get your kids out of the house is to sign them up for organized sports. Everyone is interested in different things. This may mean baseball or it may mean ballet, but either way it is a great way for your children to find something that they love, that they are talented at, and that can keep them in good health.

If you are willing to pay the big bucks, you can go to a place where everyone is treated like princes and princesses. Find the kid inside of you at theme parks like Universal or Walt Disney World through riding rides and meeting old favorite characters. Age doesn't matter when it comes to dreams coming true.

It is also important to make sure that only kids of the same size are playing together in the bouncy house. Larger kids tend to be more reckless and often don't realize how fragile their smaller peers are. Even responsible older kids could cause serious damage to smaller bodies if they lose control and fly into a smaller child. The same goes for adults. No matter how careful you are, accidents can easily happen. In the battle between adult body and toddler body, the child will lose.

Daughters are 5.5 times less likely than sons to follow their parents' examples when it comes to watching television, but if they see their parents doing it, there is still a tendency to want to do it. Girls can participate in sports and activities just as well as boys can, so encourage those interests while they are still young.

For special events and activities, consider renting an inflatable bounce house in Utah. Not only are they safer than trampolines as they provide cushioning to fall on, but they are also clean. Children and adults alike love to use them and the bouncy houses keep you working out while still having a great time with family and friends. Don't reward your children with food, healthy or otherwise, when they have won something. Reward them with something fun that will continue to keep them active - such as an inflatable rental house in Utah.




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