Child Obesity: children can also exercise at home
Some advises to get the kids “moving” inside the house:

Play with rubber jumping balls, balloons, ping pong rackets, that don’t cause damage.
Home scale Bowling kits
While they are little, between 2 and 4 years old, let them jump on top of the bed mattress (if they have no breathing problems)
Pillow fight (if they have no breathing problems)
Portable Hopscotch game
A lot of creativity!

These are some examples of how children waste their energy even being at home. Nevertheless they do not substitute the outdoors physical activities …

One of my vivid happy memories as a child (and believe me I don’t have many) is the time I spent with my mother near the fireplace playing Bingo. We had homemade cards boards with numbers and a bag with very little cards with numbers. Each time we picked up a number from the bag the number was said aloud and with beans (yes beans, those we use for soap or other dishes) or corn we would mark on the card board the number (if we had it). I really …