Play outside this winter

In the promise to build a fort or a battle of snowballs, children do not hesitate to brave the cold and deep snow. What do you expect? Come out and be active with them! You'll be warmer outside being active and walking a bit. Neither you nor your children do not need to sweat to make physical activity. "Walking is good for the hearts of all ages and is an excellent habit to adopt as a child, walking activates the heart and muscles of children. "


Start to see winter as a winter wonderland, like when you were a child. Instead of taking children from their friends, school or park, walk with them. Resolve to use your car only when absolutely necessary. In addition, you will help reduce air pollution, another boon for the heart. When children and parents choose to walk instead of using the car, they engage in physical activity whose heart needs. These steps also teach us how easy it is to reduce air pollution that harms the health of the heart and is often caused by the use of the car when we could walk. "

Here are eight fun ways for you and your child to spend time walking this winter:

1. Join a guided bird winter. You will see many interesting birds such as chickadees, cardinals and snowy owls. What a great opportunity to learn about the nature and practice an activity outside;
2. Encourage greater to offer their services to dog walkers to your friends and neighbors. They could earn pocket money while practicing a refreshing activity;
3. Instead of going by car, then walk to the park to slide or skate with your child;
4. Organize a treasure hunt in a local park or even in your yard. Try to find and identify animal tracks and various species of trees;
5. Accompany children to school by walk. Ten minutes walk in the morning you will start the day off right. If you live far from school, park the car a mile or two and walk the rest of the way;
6. Create an obstacle course in your backyard. Build barriers to climb over with snowballs and mark the ground with a spray bottle filled with colored water to create a fun trail run and make your children;
7. Make a contest for the biggest snowball. Start by forming a ball in your hand, then pushing on the ground until it is too heavy to be moved;
8. Draw your own tracks in the snow. It's always fun to watch the tracks in the snow. At the local library, you could find a book on animal tracks. Then let your kids recreate these tracks using spoons, cups and other household items on your lawn snow.

Warm yourself by being active
It is especially important for children to stay warm and being dry while playing outside in winter. Dress your children in skins so they can remove them if they were too hot. Gloves or mittens are essential impervious to play outside in the winter. If your children have only knit mittens, make sure they have a spare pair if they get wet before children have finished playing.

Remember not to play outside for too long when the wind chill down to -28 ° C or lower. According to Environment Canada, the skin can suffer frostbite after 10 to 30 minutes of exposure to these temperatures. Strong winds affect the body's ability to retain warmth, even if only -10 ° C outside, your body reacts as if it were twice as cold. These conditions increase the risk of frostbite. But as long as the children keep their nose, ears and fingers covered, physical activity outside help them stay warm and happy.

Walking, great habit of life
The simple activities such as daily walking is a great way to teach your children the importance of physical activity. When you engage in physical activity instead of just talking about it, you give a good example by incorporating physical activity into your daily routine and this for a lifetime. "If good habits are learned early, it is hoped that children who become adults walk that walk. "

Beware of the winter blues
In winter, in our latitudes, is not an easy season for anyone. The weather is dreary, days spin like the wind, it's cold and exits to the outside gradually decrease and eventually cease altogether (at least here in Quebec).

There are several reasons for this change of conduct on the part of humans. Like many animal species, humans are susceptible to seasonal variations in the intensity of light. Many people experience sudden mood changes, concentration problems or have difficulty getting up in the morning. When these changes occur in autumn or winter, the syndrome is called the "winter blues".

We know of course that this may be a little cold outside in winter, but the best (and only) way to overcome this cold is to face going out to play! In the land of sun, winter is certainly no time to hibernate, rather, it's time you wrap up and enjoy the wilderness differently. These are not activities that are lacking elsewhere.

The benefits to the children to play outside
Let them go play outside, without specific purpose and to what they want without being forced to anything, this seems to fail our children. One of the direct consequences of this outdoor activity is not overweight observed in children is increasingly common. When we play outside, you're not watching television, playing console games or computer.

Playing outside is good for muscles, for sure, but it is also expending energy and reduce the tendency to obesity that affects more and more children who are too sedentary. On a psychological level, a child playing outside with other children without being dictated rules of the game will develop many skills extremely important: he learns to imagine a game to explain to his peers or the understanding, increase their social skills, to deal with other personalities, other desires, to organize, to enjoy relationships, to create links. Playing this way seems to reduce anxiety, insomnia and aggressiveness.

What are you doing this winter to enjoy the gift of heaven?
Tell us what you do for fun and enjoy the white carpet and joys of lakes and icy rivers that surround us?

A festive atmosphere to make us dream

With all this beautiful snow, this is a beautiful holidays preamble. The brightness created by the reflection of light on the snow is very good for the morale. You feel the energy up and the enthusiasm of this festive season and multiple encounters you will probably experienced.

No matter how you decide to use this period of joy and generosity, the most important is to have fun like crazy and find the heart of a child who marvels at the window of Ogilvy on St-Catherine street in Montreal, before the ice sculptures at carnival of Quebec and before the colorful decorations around the world.

This white coat that buried Quebec allows us to go outside and play like kids, make castles surviving only the time of a storm and building snowmen that reminds us that this period of the season is one to get closer to each other.

The madness of the holidays is a gentle madness that deserves to be lived fully and must be fully enjoyed. For once everyone agrees on being patient, generous, kind and helpful, we must enjoy and appreciate the fact that human beings are capable of love and compassion.

Of course, the winter lose its charm after a number of weeks, but most important is to enjoy the present moment, the holiday spirit, the peacefully spirit influenced by this white snow and this time of celebration incredibly pleasant.

Imagine yourself after a day spent playing outside, you run around in the snow, skiing, skating, ball fighting in snow or whatever, when you return indoors, you will wrapp yourself in a beautiful blanket with warm hot chocolate and watch a movie to finally fall asleep like children who have given everything to enjoy this beautiful winter day

Time for Kids - The holidays - Time to share

What a beautiful time of the year as the holiday season. The Santa Claus Parade (since 1905 in Canada in Toronto and Montreal 1925), decoration of shops and department stores and of course all illuminated residences.

What about these holidays songs, all these singers and these improvised shows up in color, sound and light that illuminates our hearts and put us in a good mood. No matter how old you are, the magic of the holiday is really enchanting and pleasant.

There is no need for spending to enjoy the magic of this time of year, simply go outside, walk, take the time to listen, watch and share. Take the time to live gently in the madness of beauty open your heart to those who need you, people who have forgotten to remember their child's heart and marvel at what this beautiful frenzy the holiday season is.

In this period of economic austerity and crisis pandemic you must take a pause and appreciate what you have, what you are and all that is offered toy ou and your families. The art of loving life is to appreciate the present moment and people around you.
Open your heart and be attentive to the people you hang out regularly. Do not take for grant your spouse, your friends, your children, your parents and enjoy every moment with all this little world of your life.

If you want to fill your heart with joy, here is the ulttime the most effective way to get there.
HELP A NEEDY
Indeed, helping people who are really in need is what give us the more happiness and satisfaction, Why? Simply because when we do this, we know that we have absolutely nothing in return and the person we're helping will appreciated it at the highest point. We know that we are part of something great and that our small action could drastically change the lives of the people we help. The best part about all this is that we do so without any expectations and that we put our heart because we do for good reasons, that is to say, love.

You want to teach your children to share? Nothing could be easier, simply involve them in your approach and be certain that what you do is by far the best way to teach something to your children. Never forget that your children will do what you do and not what you say!

Even if we live in an age of madness, the fact remains that we are fortunate to live in a very special environment with a lifestyle unmatched on this planet. Let's be generous and open to those in need.