family walk speed

[Anonymous]

This seems easy but when we go on family walks for the life of me I can't get my kids and DH to walk together as a family. How do you all do it? DH walks ahead and my kids fall behind. Kids are 5 & 7.

[Anonymous]

DH needs to slow down. Adult exercise walking doesn't work with kids, that's a separate activity. He should be looking at flowers and beetles with the kids, or counting dogs, or whatever.

Bring snacks for the kids. I have a six year old and she can walk twice as far with a snack.

[Anonymous]

We take up an entire block a lot. When no one else is around, it’s fine. Why do you need to walk on a group?

[Anonymous]

Walk in single file. Dad in front and you in back or vice versa.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think I have seen a single family walking the neighborhood all together. It’s usually a stretched out line.

[Anonymous]

My DH tends to speed ahead with my 2nd grader and I get stuck behind with the Kinder. So I tell him he needs to take a turn keeping an eye on the little one and I walk with the bigger one. It's not that we all need to walk together, for us it's more that I'm sick of being stuck behind with the more challenging child. For our family walks, I much prefer it when kids are on scooters in that they go a better pace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH needs to slow down. Adult exercise walking doesn't work with kids, that's a separate activity. He should be looking at flowers and beetles with the kids, or counting dogs, or whatever.

Bring snacks for the kids. I have a six year old and she can walk twice as far with a snack.

Huh? How far are you walking? You mean like several miles on a day hike? Then sure, bring a snack. But two miles around the neighborhood? Why would your kids need a snack. I have six-year-old twins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think I have seen a single family walking the neighborhood all together. It’s usually a stretched out line.

Why are all the runners complaining about families spread across the sidewalk then?

[Anonymous]

Agree that if your DH wants to have exercise time, he has to do that on his own. We are resigned to the fact that our daily walks with our twin (nearly) 3YO boys is more for them than for us. It takes us something like 30 minutes to do a 1 mile walk and took us almost an hour to do a 2 mile walk yesterday. Yes, it's a lot slower than if it were just DH and I, but that's not really the point of the walk. Just getting fresh air, enjoying the weather, like others said, pointing out things in nature (favorite activity for them is to point out colors of the cars).

Because your kids are a little older, OP, do you think maybe the older one might want to do a few sprints with your DH here and there? We do that sometimes with our 3YOs, but obviously their ability to sprint lasts about one block.

[Anonymous]

Send the 7 yo to catch up with him.