High School: How To Help Your Child Learn Bodily Kinesthetic Skills

How can I help my high school-age child learn bodily-kinesthetic skills?

By the time a child's in high school it's going to be very hard for us to get them up off the sofa and make them get up and go. What we can try to do to improve bodily-kinesthetic skills is to create situations in which they might want to do that. If we have a vacation planned, we may be able to do something active - rent a kayak, or take a hike somewhere. I think what parents can do for kids who are of high school age is to model the best behavior. If we're couch potatoes ourselves, if we don't engage ourselves in bike riding or weekend activities, there's going to be no real motivation for a child who's already struggling in the area of bodily-kinesthetic skills to get up and go. Modeling is the best thing we can do as parents for out high school children.