Who considers it a part of your moral code

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to teach good health and exercise habits to your children?

If you do, when do you start?

How do you start?

I believe providing a healthy base, along with initiative into academic study and religious insight to sum up the requirements of parenting.

With that stated, small children can be introduced to exercise through active play. Use a ball, chase a ball, play in the water. This starts from infant through toddlers.

Simple exercise through team game participation extends the exercise routine, and then as they mature through the sporting process, they will supplement their training through additional aspects, weight training, endurance training.

Our nine year old is starting his first year on club soccer.

The coach at the beginning of each practice makes the players run forty minutes continuously to simulate a full half of game running. On the first day, my child ran until he got a sideache, fell to the ground, recovered and got back up. By the second day, he was able to complete the task. Now he's asking for that to be a daily routine, on top of the 100 pushups and 200 crunches he does in the morning.

The other children followed similar routines.

That's working to some extent? Well the college aged child has developed her own routine without asking and her younger sister does as well.

Any other ideas or successes?