Margaret Yen-Chuang Matthews: Getting kids to move

The Union – Margaret Yen-Chuang Matthews

With distance learning and homeschooling, children are spending more time on screens and indoors than ever. Our community sport teams, pickup basketball games, swimming pools, park playgrounds, summer camps, dance studios and physical education classes are all closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. With these and so many other venues for children and teenagers to exercise being closed, how can we get our kids to move? Even without organized activities, parents can help get their housebound children moving and have fun doing it. As families shelter in place together, keeping active is a great way to spend family time.

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