Check out my post at Living Montessori Now with Montessori-inspired physical fitness activities for preschoolers, featuring Family Time Fitness lessons.
After raising two children who became elite athletes, I truly realized the value of daily exercise for healthy habits as children and later on as adults. I’ve been happily surprised to see how committed my now-adult children are to their health and physical fitness after athletic training and having healthy habits throughout childhood.
I didn’t plan for my kids to be athletes. I homeschooled Will and Christina through high school, but I didn’t even have a good program for their physical education in the beginning. I wasn’t an athlete growing up, so physical education was our weakest subject. If Family Time Fitness would have been available back then, I definitely would have used it. Since we didn’t have a good physical education program, physical education was hit-or-miss in the early years of our homeschooling. We did some stunts and tumbling (my favorite athletic activities) and introduced various sports (thanks to my husband, who was an athlete), but Will wasn’t very interested. We just assumed he wasn’t an athlete.
When Will was introduced to skiing through Cub Scouts just before turning 8, we discovered he was a natural and had an amazing sense of balance. Later on, we discovered that foot sports in particular were his specialty. Even though he had a late start, Will went on to become an international competitor in pairs figure skating. Christina loved dance and almost every sport from the beginning, so for her it was just a matter of following her interests to find the best sport for her.
A regular exercise program would have given Will a solid foundation and regular physical fitness from the beginning. It would also have helped us identify his strengths and interests much sooner.
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The Family Time Fitness exercises are designed for ages 5-13, although there are many activities that could be used with younger and older children. I published a post at Living Montessori Now with some Montessori-inspired activities for using Family Time Fitness with preschoolers.
If you can’t do some of the activities outdoors, you can even do them indoors in a rec room or your living room. I really appreciate that the activities are designed for use with multiple ages and are fun ways to develop gross-motor skills and get exercise at the same time. This really is a program any family can do.
Check out my post at Living Montessori Now with Montessori-inspired physical fitness activities for preschoolers, featuring Family Time Fitness lessons.
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What a fantastic and amazing giveaway! I have struggled with teaching PE to my only for pretty much all the years of homeschooling we’ve done. I would adore a chance to win this….as it’s pretty much out of our budget! Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂
I have wanted to have Family Time Fitness since I saw it several months ago. I am not gifted in this area! 😉
I’d love to be more active WITH my kids– they love exercising as a family!
I have been praying over this fitness program since first coming across it. I am impressed and would love to start my children on a good, lifelong habit of health and fitness. This program would be a wonderful guide and continue to allow our family to grow and learn together (my favorite thing about homeschool.) 🙂
I’d love to do this with my four boys! We do tons of gross motor activities, but I’m always looking for new ideas.
Having been heavy as a child and young adult, it is very important to me to raise my children in a way to promote healthy habits. I love the idea of having a curriculum to follow!
I’d love to have this fitness program in my homeschool!!
I’d love to do this with my two boys, in my homeschool!
I love that Family Time Fitness was created by fellow homeschoolers, that they sought guidance from other homeschoolers and have a passion for helping our children be healthy and fit. Their story is awesome and brings comfort in trusting their product quality.
Fitness is important to our family and we currently don’t have a “curriculum”. This would be such a blessing!
I want to win because I will be homeschooling my 4 children this year but have no idea what I’m going to do with them as far as fitness.
I would love to win this because I would like more activity ideas for my daughter. Fitness is very important to my husband thanks to the Marine Corps but somehow that doesn’t translate well to teaching fitness education to a kid.
Just starting my own curriculum, always used virtual academy curriculum, so I would LOVE and feel very blessed to win curriculum.:)
This would be a great addition to our school year.
This will surely be fun for the kids. A great program to start a class.
Always looking for ways to keep my family active, especially with homeschooling.
My students will surely enjoy this. A great program to start a class.
I’d like to help my kids be more active.
This would be great for my grand kids. My grandson just started homeschooling this year.
I like that they have different programs – homeschool, school, family, or you can just choose running or basketball.
This would be a great addition to our homeschooling supplies. My son and I had a car accident last year and although he came out unscathed, I received a rather bad seat belt injury. For the last ten months I have been unable to play in the backyard with my son, run, jump or kick a soccer ball. In two weeks I get surgery to fix my hip injury and we are just weeks away from playing together in the back yard once again. It would be great to celebrate my return to outdoor activity by beginning a new fitness schedule with my son, instilling health as well as fresh air in his little body and mine! Thanks for this opportunity!
I was so excited to find this! I have been looking for a program to help my dd with her fitness and have fun at the same time! I would love to win this package!
I want to win, because my family could use lots of exercise and I would love some new ways of getting it.
I want to win this since both me and my hubby need to tone up so we can be good examples for our kiddos.
Neither my husband nor I are terribly sporty, but we know it’s so vital for our children to be physically active. Having a little guidance to help us get in the right direction would be fantastic.
I’d love to win this so I can be active with my kids. I always struggle with finding activities to do with them to encourage them to be active and healthy.
I’m hoping that winning a family fitness package will motivate my family to get fit.
I run childcare out of my home and the kiddos just want to watch television and eat junky snacks. I’ve decided to go outside more and eat healthier fruits. I’ve had kids look at berries like they were mutant monsters. If I don’t teach them, who will? They are at my house all day. I feel an obligation to instill good healthy habits in them.
We are all terribly out of shape and we could use this. We need to be healthier so we can do more things together, and not be tired all the time.
I want to win because I believe physical activity at home is very important. I also have one son who is overweight who I think will benefit from this program!
I’d love to be more active WITH my kids– they love exercising as a family!
My husband and kids enjoy exercising and staying healthy. This would be very helpful for us and Definately something we would enjoy!!
I homeschool and we don’t have a great option for physical fitness.
I’m just starting to homeschool and would love to win
Because there is nothing that I want more than for my kids to grow up fit and healthy. I never did and I wish I could go back and change it.
I’d love to include their suggestions in our Homeschool curriculum 🙂
Well, I would love to win this because it’s always good to have resources. Not only would my kids benefit from this program, but it would go along way to solving my dilemma of when I could get active again without taking away from time with the kids and “school” time. This would be fun and so good for all of us.
I visited Family Time Fitness and learned there are resources specifically geared for Homeschoolers. Yay! Perfect for us.
this would be helpful to me so I could be active with my kids and have some fun
I want to win this for my son. I know we both lack of the physical activities these days.
Two of my boys are disabled and all of them are homeschooled, so we don’t get out and active much. This would be great to help us out. Thanks!!!
Fitness is key to a healthy lifestyle!
I’d love to do this with my two boys, in my homeschool!
Thanks for the giveaway, Deb! I’d definitely love to win this for our home-based preschool.
I have dislike a lot all kinds of sports. I don’t want to give the same attitude to my kids.
I just recently stumbled upon FTF through a google search. I have been wanting to do some PE with my children since that is an area I feel is being overlooked in our homeschooling. After downloading the two day sampler, I have been convinced this is a program I want. I decided to check for reviews just to make sure that it is as good as it seems 🙂
Having visited Family Time Fitness, I learned that if I feel like the Homeschool Core program is not the perfect fit for my family, that there is simply a family curriculum available. I liked it but I definitely think the Core program is the route to go 🙂
I would love to incorporate this in my sons day. He is very active and I would like new ideas on what to do to help support him in this area.
to find more ways to be active together
I learned that Fundamental Movement Patterns are patterns that allow the body to be coordinated in those simple, basic movement patterns of lateral motion, weight transfer, forward motion, up and down motion, and coordinating upper and lower body movements. This sounds like a great idea to encourage on a daily basis! Can’t wait to get going with my little ones!
This is a great way to get the whole family active together!