Be A Healthy Family Home

While all families are challenged to eat right, get enough physical activity and find enough time to be together as a family, the YMCA is here to help parents meet these challenges, as a powerful asset to each and every family looking to respond in their own way to a preventable epidemic. (Espanol)

Four specific, small changes in the family setting have been found to significantly improve a child’s lifestyle, thereby helping them to be healthier both today and in the future. Plus, they help strengthen families and bring parents and children closer together!

1. Eat together as a family
2. Play together as a family
3. Check in daily with each child
4. Parents are the primary and best role models for their kids

Healthy Family Home is the YMCA's resource to help you improve your home environment and jumpstart healthy habits that will lead to a healthier way of living. healthyfamilyhome.org supports and encourages the whole family in making nurturing, wholesome choices throughout each day. 

Ready to get started? Click here to download the Healthy Family Home Starter Kit, full of family fun activities and information for the entire home on Play, Eating Healthy and Family Time. Kids, ask a grown-up to help you download the kit and then pick a family activity to try out today!

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