Promoting Healthy Habits for Kids
Disclosure: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew.
Promoting Healthy Habits for Kids
American Coaching Academy
Homeschool Review Crew
If you have children you know that sometimes they want the least healthy thing or most unhealthy or to do what they want even if it’s not the best choice. I’d like to share a product with you today that helps with promoting healthy habits for kids.
American Coaching Academy provided us with a PDF download of their Healthy Habits Tracker.
About the Habit Tracker
The Healthy Habits Tracker is made to be used for twelve months. There are 12 trackers and each lasts 30 days. Each tracker is used for a full month to cement the healthy habit. Along with the PDF download of the full Healthy Habits Trackers, we also received a blank template to make our own tracker.
The twelve focus trackers are:
- Muscular Endurance- This is an exercise circuit that includes a variety of activities for five minutes a day.
- Household Chores- Help out around the house! This includes normal chores like making the bed, taking out the trash, washing the dishes, etc.
- Healthy Body- This takes you past exercise to self-care things like hydration, hygiene, and sleep.
- Kindness- Exercise your kindness muscles! Make someone smile for this challenge.
- Nutrition- Talk about and exercise healthy eating habits.
- Locomotor- Think balance, strength, and coordination with this challenge through army crawls, hopscotch, etc.
- Boot Camp- Challenge them to move up their fitness level with things like burpees, squat jumps, etc.
- Yoga Flow- Basic yoga poses or make your own as a flexibility challenge.
- Cardio- Five-minute circuit training of cardio activities.
- Flexibility- Fun flexibility tasks like butterflies and toe touches.
- Muscular Strength- Think weight lifting for kids here. Exert force and use body weight to build a bit of muscle.
- Bee Fit- Bring everything together in this challenge. This will mix together hydration, movement, strength, and kindness.
Ease of use
You can easily print off the pages you need as you need them. Color in the section for each day once the task is completed. Choose 5-6 daily tasks to do. Each day they’re done color it in and move forward with the goal of getting all the pieces colored in.
Each month’s tracker is different. They’re colorful and eye-catching. Because you print your own you can use these for everyone in your family. No limit on how many people can use it. Everyone can do them as one month per year or you can pick and choose which to do each month. It’s up to you if you do the activities together or let your children do them on their own throughout the day.
Our Thoughts
I am all about promoting healthy habits for kids. However, I do want to point out that we will not be using the yoga month. Before downloading I knew about this and the wonderful company behind this does acknowledge that not everyone uses or practices yoga. They say you do not have to use it or even print it. I printed it out but will be using the create your own template to make a different tracker for that month. Probably something to do with gardening and preserving.
My kids love how colorful the trackers are. We did find that some months’ activities don’t apply to everyone so I will probably swap out their months with the create your own template.
As a mom of many who truly believes that I am raising capable kids and adults who can live on their own, I have already implemented a lot of the things these track for. My kids are required to make their beds every day. They each have chores that they have to do daily as well.
And I’m a huge proponent of health. My kids know that they need to drink water and the only thing we drink except for at meals is water.
I think this would be amazing for younger children as you are training them up. And let’s be honest sometimes you might need it for those preteens who don’t think they need to shower as often as your nose says they do.
I love that you can create your own trackers. We are going to be creating one for each child with their chores when we switch up our chores this summer and fall.
Kids Thoughts
My kids are loving this. And primarily I would say that this is amazing for my kid’s ages 3-13. My teenage kids aren’t all that thrilled with them. But those little people really love coloring in their spaces (or bonus if you have extra stickers to stick one of those on top of the coloring).
I will say that my older kids did participate in the physical activity ones. We are very active here on our farm. It’s a given. My kids can lift and throw 50 lb bags of feed with ease. However, we don’t do a lot of the actual exercises that these trackers emphasized and I liked that we could get some variety in.
One of my children saw a PT and OT for years due to being delayed. These are all activities that they recommended we keep up on but now that she’s a teen I forget to remind her to do them. This is perfect! It helps both of us remember that she still needs to work on flexibility, balance, and cross-body exercises.
Overall we have really loved this program.
I wasn’t sure what to think of it at first. I didn’t really think we’d use it. My kids already have chores to do and are physically active. But I was wrong. We have been using it and they are really enjoying it.
I do see us continuing with the program but with a few tweaks here and there as I change up some of the months. I’d love to see each of the monthly trackers with ways to go in and change them so I don’t have to create one from total scratch for months that I want to tweak.
For the blank sheets they have basically taken out all of the writing but I’d love to have some of the writing there to save time in filling them in.
Learn More
Make sure you read all of the reviews linked up on the Main Blog Post over on the Homeschool Review Crew blog to see what all the reviewers thought of promoting healthy habits for kids.
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