Active Family Project & Sweepstakes!

Being a parent comes with a lot of responsibilities.  The house constantly needs attention, food shopping is hard to keep up with, someone always needs to go to the doctor for something, and let’s not even talk about the laundry.  Oh, and if you’re really lucky, you get to “work” too.  (As if all of that and the millions of other things don’t count as work.)  It’s easy to get caught up in all of the daily tasks that need to be done and end up missing out on important family moments.  I try to arrange time for us to do something together on the weekends, but with so many errands to get done and not having a lot of time to plan, it doesn’t always happen.

Merck understands what it’s like to be an overwhelmed parent trying to balance everything, and they’ve developed the Active Family Project to provide us with tips and advice to help families be more active together.  A family that takes the time to play together is more physically and emotionally fit, and they tend to be closer and have stronger relationships.  These are things we all want, we just need to take steps to make it happen!

If you need help getting started, try the Activity Finder.  Enter your location and you’ll be shown fun, family-friendly places to go in your area. While you’re there, click the “Tips” tab for great ideas for making the most of your family’s playtime together.  Then you’ll be ready to plan out your playdate!  I’m already working on mine.  My goal is to spend a day this weekend at a local park where they have big fields for us to play in.  We’ll bring balls of various sizes so we can kick some around and play catch.  My 3 year old son will probably want to spend the whole time running in circles, but that’s okay.  As long as we’re all outside and running around together, I know we’ll have a great time.  Maybe we’ll even get to chase some butterflies if they’re out yet.  That’s Mommy’s favorite part!

It’s time to put down the iPad, turn off the TV, and forget about the dishes for a while.  Let’s spend this summer getting outside and moving around instead!  I’ve made my promise to have a family playdate.  Will you?

Make the promise and you can enter the Family Playdate Sweepstakes.  You could win weekly prizes including a Family Beach Vacation Prize Pack!  Hurry though, because the sweepstakes ends 11:59:59pm ET on 5/26/13.

I received $100 from Merck Consumer Care, and any opinions expressed by me are honest and reflect my actual experience. This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Merck Consumer Care.