Top Tips To Get Your Kids Off The Couch

Do you struggle to convince your kids to get off the couch and put the consoles and tablets down even when it’s warm and sunny outside? If you’re keen to be more active this summer, there are loads of ways you can make exercise fun and encourage your children to spend more time in the great outdoors. 

Making your garden child-friendly

When there are blue skies, and the sun is beating down, you want to be able to make the most of those long summer days and enjoy some quality time together. If your garden is more of an adult oasis or it needs some TLC, take steps to make it more appealing to your children. If the backyard is a child-friendly area, your kids are much more likely to want to swap the living room for the open air. You don’t have to sacrifice your own space to make your garden more versatile. Use fences, structures, or different materials, such as decking, bark chippings, and flagstones to create distinctive areas that are geared towards different members of the family. If you have young kids, they’ll love playing in a sand pit or taking on a mini obstacle course made from logs, stepping stones, and slides. If you’ve got older children, set up some soccer goals or place a basketball hoop on the wall. 

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Encouraging friendly competition

Even if you don’t think you’re the most competitive person in the world, we all have that competitive spirit. If there’s something up for grabs or somebody to beat, we’re likely to try harder and enjoy the process more. If you’re keen to get your kids to be more active this summer, why not have a look online for trophies and medals, and plan a competition based on the mini leagues or the Olympics? You can find out more by shopping around online and get some ideas for games from the video games your kids play and the kinds of activities they participate in at school. Create a score sheet, set a time frame, and reward the winner and the runner-up at the end of the event. 

Plan some active days out

If your days out usually involve going to the movies or visiting museums and galleries, try and introduce some more active adventures. Dust down your bikes and go on a ride through the hills or visit a national park and hire some kayaks. Go for a walk along the beach on the weekends or take a frisbee, a football or a cricket set to the park. Go ice skating or rollerblading or visit the local outdoor pool if the weather is nice. 

Summer is the perfect time of year to make it your mission to be more active as a family. If you’ve got kids who are glued to a screen in their free time, or you’re eager to get out and about more, there are loads of fun activities you can try. Spend time together in the garden, get competitive, and plan some outdoor adventures.

Keeping Your Business As Secure As Your Home

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Recently, I posted about recovering from a break-in on your home, but what about your business? It’s fair to say that these days it can seem as though, with fantastic tech resources, companies and businesses are safer than ever. If you’re working from home, you can keep all your files secure on a digital server. In the office, there is plenty of tech security add-ons for commercial addresses like CCTV and even personal ID systems. But a break in or theft can still be a problem for businesses, and that’s why owners need to know how to protect their properties inside and out. 

Getting Back To Normal: How Can You Feel Safe After A Break-In?

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There is no doubt that a break-in is by far one of the most horrible and traumatic things that you and your family could possibly go through. It's the kind of thing that can have some seriously long lasting effects on you and your kids. Sure, there's the initial horror of realizing that valuable things have been taken, but things can be replaced. What tends to have the strongest impact of all is the feeling of discomfort and fear that comes from knowing that someone else was able to invade your most private and personal space without you ever knowing. Your home is meant to be your sanctuary. It's the place where you feel the safest and most secure in the world. So when that safety and security is violated, it's pretty understandable that many people find it incredibly difficult to deal with. However, you can't spend your life living in fear, especially when you have a family. Because of that, here are some things that you can do to help you and your family feel safe again after a break in.

Doing Away With Digestive Problems

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The likes of constipation and diarrhea affect us all. Such digestive problems can disrupt our day to day life either by causing pain or discomfort or keeping us glued to the toilet seat. Fortunately, there are many remedies to get your gut back in good shape. Here are a few methods to try out next time your bowels decide to bother you.

Keep Your Home Cool During Summer without AC

During the summertime everybody wants to feel and revel in the heat that the sun provides… but not all the time. Everybody wants to get their fix of Vitamin D and give their tan a little bit of a top up… but not the whole summer long. As much as we may love it when the sun appears for the year, we do need a break from it from time to time. But where’s the best place to get this break? Where’s the best place to seek shelter from the sun? The answer is, our homes. And because our homes offer us the best protection from the heat of the sun outside, we don’t want to feel stifled and too hot within them. If your home is your shelter from the sun make sure to read on to find out how you can keep it cool the whole summer long… without having to rack up your electricity bill by using air conditioning.

The first thing you should do in this venture is target your windows. Specifically, you should target the 30 percent of unwanted heat in your home that they let in. Yes, your windows are one of the biggest contributors of heat in your home; so, you need to target them. And the first thing you should do when targeting them in this fashion is to invest in a good pair of blinds, and keep them closed. By utilising shades, curtains and blinds in this way you can find that the indoor temperature you have to contend with is lowered by up to 20 degrees. So, if you don’t want your home to feel like a greenhouse, keep those windows covered!