{"id":7493,"date":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/the-benefits-of-a-daily-family-walk\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","slug":"the-benefits-of-a-daily-family-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/es\/the-benefits-of-a-daily-family-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of a Daily Family Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I complain–a lot–about the fact that my family of three can never manage to eat a picture-perfect family meal together. Mornings are too chaotic and we honestly prefer sleeping in 15 more minutes rather than using that time for a breakfast at the table. Then off we frantically go to face our days: my husband gets in his car for his hour-long commute in L.A. traffic, and I go drop off my girl to Montessori preschool so she can learn her ABCs and I can get my work done.<\/p>\n

By the time I pick up my girl from aftercare and bring her home, all she wants to do is have dinner.\u00a0Dad doesn\u00b4t ever make it home before 7pm, and by then it\u00b4s too late for all of us to sit down at the table together.<\/p>\n

It finally dawned on me that instead of complaining about not being the perfect little family and missing out on all the amazing benefits of sitting down together at a table (even when my\u00a0four year old never really sits still anywhere), I could be proactive about it, and came up with our now daily family walks.<\/p>\n

The point of a family dinner is really just to get every member of a family together in one place to share your day, your thoughts, unwind and eat a proper nutritious meal.\u00a0Since our family consists only of three people, plus a small dog, I figured we pretty much spend most of our personal time together.\u00a0Plus, the same benefits of a family meal can be had with a nice evening walk around the neighborhood.\u00a0Even better, if you can actually manage the family meal, why not extend it into a family walk and double the benefits?<\/p>\n

And what are those benefits?\u00a0In our case they have been:<\/p>\n