Healthy Lifestyle

With our children's health of utmost importance to Australian parent's, it is important to recognise that it's not only our food choices that our affecting our children's health but the choices that we as parents make with their recreational time.

With our lifestyles becoming busier with working commitments - 50% of woman with children under 4 years old going back to work - our kids recreational time is dominated by technology and is often unsupervised.

To help our kids get out and active again and ensure that they stay fit and healthy, we need to regulate and reduce the time that our kids watch television, play electronic games and sit at the computer and find activities that they enjoy and some that whole family can enjoy together.

It can be as simple as putting a weekly schedule together nominating Saturday mornings as the walking the dog with Dad to get the milk and papers day or on Monday afternoons, helping mum fold the washing and taking your clothes -one thing at a time - up the stairs and into the bedroom until it's done. That activity alone could be the equivalent of twenty minutes walking and costs nothing!

Increasing incidental activity is a great place to start. Have a look around the house and at your lifestyle. Try to be creative and find ways to get your kids exercising at home. It's cheap, convenient and if you can make it fun, they won't even miss the TV.

Remember - children need to exercise for at least 1 hour every day.

Depending on the child's personality and activity levels during recess and lunchtime at school, a good portion of this hour may be eaten into but don't rely on that as their exercise for the day.

Healthy Lifestyle Products

DID YOU KNOW that 10 minutes jumping on a trampoline is equivalent to 30 minutes of regular exercise but SO much more fun!!

DID YOU KNOW that over 6,000 children are admitted to Emergency departments in hospitals after being injured while using a trampoline that's not including the thousands who end up at their local doctor or dentist!

THINK SAFE, JUMP SAFE .

So is there such thing as a safe trampoline or do our kids need to stop jumping?

Approved by Kids Connect as a better choice product and endorsed by Kidsafe Australia, the SpringFree Trampoline is the revolutionary trampoline delivering peace of mind to Australian parents through its wonderful safety benefits as well as the wonderful health benefits to kids through exercise and play.

The SpringFree is a high-tech design with its bounce provided by fibre glass rods, positioned under the jumping surface, which means there's nothing hard in the jumping areas.

This is a product that will appeal to safety conscious parents and with massive appeal to kids who love the concept of the net surrounding the trampoline reminding them that they cannot fall off!! No matter how high they jump!

Who said trampolines were just for kids! The SpringFree can be a fun workout for the whole family and a fantastic Christmas present that the kids will never get sick of.

But parents beware - Other manufacturers have come up with band-aid solutions, just adding a net with rigid steel poles to a traditional tramp, that could possibly cause another set of injuries altogether and they can’t get rid of dangerous springs or steel frame.