22 Self care tips for kids

 Self care for kids is necessary to reduce stress and increase happiness. It is sometimes very tough for parents to handle stressful situations. It is not only for the kids even adults should practice self-care to give themselves a break from hectic lives, refresh, and take care of themselves mentally, emotionally, and physically. While we all know that self-care is important for adults, it is also important for kiddos.

Benefits of self care for Kids

• When kids practice self-care they learn to identify their physical and emotional needs and can begin to take care of those needs.
• Practicing self-care at a young age allows kids to create a foundation that will benefit them as adults.
• Practicing self-care allows your child to develop healthy habits that they can benefit from in the future.
• Your child will be able to become more independent and understand how to take care of themselves.
• They will develop the skills necessary to keep themselves healthy mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Self-care activities for kids

• Go on a bike ride.
• Read a book.
• Bubble Bath
• Listen to relaxing music
• Cook a meal together with kids
• Draw or paint
• Do a Puzzle
• Have a dance party
• Drink a cup of Hot Chocolate
• Make them to play board or card games
• Talk with kids and know about good parts of their day.
• Make them to snuggle with a stuffed animal
• Listen to their favorite music
• Play dates with friends
• Make up their bed with fresh sheets (just a quick dryer will do the trick)
• Mindlessly build with Legos or play-doh.
• Declutter old toys and clothes.
• Visit a playground.
• Give them massage with olive oil.
• Do story telling.
• Talk with friends and family.
• Make fun popsicles with kids.

self-care is a high priority when things are challenging, and they will help you handle what comes next.

Healthy Habits

Healthy Habits aren't just eating and exercising. They are also creative activities, time with friends/family or time for us. 

Healthy habits are important. They help us manage stress and challenging situations. Building up routines that help us take care of our bodies, hearts and minds is a valuable investment we should do.

so, how can we build healthy habits. Below steps would help us to make healthy activities as a habit.

• Consistency: Be consistent with the activities we decide to do. This would also set an example for our kids. Consistency with what we have decided to do would help us to convert a healthy activity to a habit. It shouldn't be a one day event or activity. If we really want to make it as a habit we should be consistent with it. For example: we wake up in the morning and brush our teeth, make some teacoffee, take shower, start making breakfast. All the activities we are doing became our habits for a day. This should be the same way if we have to make a healthy activity to a habit

           

• Time: It is easy to start a bad habit, but it takes lot of time and effort to build a healthy habit. Are we bored of doing a healthy activity everyday? do a self talk to yourself, think of all the benefits you would be receiving by doing the activity. 
• Is the habit yours? question to self? Is the habit I am trying to make as part of my routine would really fit my schedule and will that be a good investment for my bodymindemotional wellbeingamily? what works for one person might not be for another. 

self care is a high priority when things are challenging and they will help you handle any situation efficiently.

Summer Activities

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 Summer is the most beautiful time of the year and it is also the time we would be able to have fun time with our kids. Early sunrise and chirping sound coming from birds will keep us active in the mornings. 

Summers are the best time of the year with less busy schedules in the morning. Below are the activities we can do with kids and for ourselves to recharge ourselves

1. Family game night:  Have a weekly game night, and on rotation basis make your family to choose the game. 

2. Family movie night: Show a movie on the Main television in your home. This would be easy for the family to snuggle and watch movie at one place.

Serve popcorn and if feasible order pizza for a quick dinner.

3. Family dance party: Host a family dance party to all sorts of different music and show the kids your favorite moves.

4. Do a puzzle: If you're bored with your puzzles, trade with a friend or family.

5.Lego challenges: Give everyone a bag of Lego pieces and charge your crew with building a house, a store, a park, their school or their favorite cartoon character. This would help to keep their fingers strong as well.

6. Grow herbs and flowers:  Make a plant bed and put seeds and make kids watch them grow. See if you can take kids with you to local farmer's market or local flower farms. Also, take them to fruit picking to cultivate healthy eating habit.

7. Visit a zoo:  For the kids of younger age, take them to local zoo and watch how animals look like. Make them to touch and learn about animals.

8. Art Museum: Take kids to a local art museum and make them to explore art and culture from different countries.

9. Hiking: We don't need to stress younger kids with miles of hiking. We can take kids out to local parks with trails and make them get used to walking in trails. If incase of elder kids, find your nearest state or national park or national forest.  This would help them to spend more time outdoors in a clean environment and get fresh air.

10. Movie Marathon: Make them to collect all their classic or Favorite Disney movies and allow them to continuously watch movies. Pair this with Pizza night or order food from kid's favorite restaurant. For teenagers, allow them to watch their favorite 

11. Let's have a picnic: Picnic or grill in the backyard or in your local park. This will help kids to spend some time outdoors. Also, see if you can add some outdoor sports Ex: Play Soccer, Bubbles, Basketball etc.

12: Lemonade Stand: Help Kids to set up a lemonade stand and give the proceeds to a good cause.

13: Declutter:  We might be busy with our school and class schedule during academic year. It is a good to do deep cleaning and make sure we remove all the unwanted things from the house. 

14. Bike Riding: Summer is the time we get a chance to spend more time outdoors. That paired up with Bike Riding would allow us to spend more time outdoors.

15. Baking: Roll your sleeves, out your apron and get into the kitchen and have fun with kids baking their favorite cookies or banana bread. Kids would love to see what they have made with their hands. while cookies are baking, make some lemonade and turn that into Tea party.

16. Library: Summer reading would help kids to maintain the vocabulary. This would also help them to explore new books they would enjoy reading. Make frequent visits to local library.

17. Go Stargazing: Finish your dinner early and go out for a walk with kids. These summer walks would be cool and sky would be clear. Watch for stars and make kids to looks for clouds and ask them to connect to shapes. 

18. Sandcastles: If feasible, make a sandpit in your backyard. Kids would have fun building castles and decorating them. Have fun Sunday morning building castles with kids. Tip: It is easy to buy a foldable bath tub and fill the tub with sand. 

19. Sleep outdoors:  Hammock. Kids can get their favorite books and spend their summer afternoons swinging in Hammock and reading their favorite cartoons.

20. Mini Golf: Make a visit to local Golf. you can also invest in Golf Mat and reuse every summer.

21. Eat something new : Explore local restaurants and find out a place you would like to enjoy.

22. Watch Fireworks : Independence Day fireworks generally come during summers. Find some time to go out and watch Fireworks. Also, make kids to see local parades and sing national anthem.

23. Have a pretend campout: Camping is fun way to spend more time outdoors. If we are busy with our schedules, it is fun to make kids do camping in their backyards. Join kids inside camping tent and play games.

24. Beach: Hot summers always would get better with sometime inside water and playing with sand.

Enjoy your summer's.