How The Toy Industry Is Keeping Kids Active

Friday, 7 September 2012


In the modern world it is getting easier and easier for people to live sedentary lives. Most people will own their own form of transport, but even if they don’t transport links in towns and cities are so good that most people don’t have to walk more of a metre outside their front door to be transported to wherever they want to go.

Not only this but most people have desk jobs in offices or work from home, meaning getting daily exercise is becoming a thing of the past. one of the best ways to beat obesity and sedentary lifestyles early on is to foster a passion for exercise and sport at an early age, and the toy industry is doing their part to bring in a series of great sports related toys which will excite children and get them to exercise without even realising it.

One of the best ways to get a child interested in exercise is to make it fun and thrilling, and bikes and scooters do this. You can now buy scooters and bikes for children as young as 18 months, which are completely safe to use and easy to ride, and give children that early sensation of the rush you can get from exercise, in a fun enough way that it just feels like an adventure. Bikes are great because they give children the kind of freedom they have never experienced before. they get to decide where to go and what to do, as well as how fast and how far they go. Taking your kids to the park with their bikes can be a fantastic way to get them to fall in love with bike riding, and it will give them more than enough daily exercise.

But it doesn’t stop here, and many children will enjoy the competitive aspects of sport, which is where more clever sports toys come in. A toy like the Jakks Pacific UltiMotion Swing Zone Sports is both a fun and exciting gadget and a way of getting fit at the same time. It is a video game which plugs into your computer and encourages kids to take part in a series of different sports. But unlike other sports video games, the child does not use a motion sensitive controller, but a series of actual sports equipment, such as balls, golf clubs and so on, to get a real feel for the sport. In this way they can decide which sport is their favourite, with the specialness of getting to play computer at the same time. Even better, the game can be played in groups but can also be played alone, giving your child a first taste of enjoying sports activities when they are on their own and not just with friends.

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