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Eat Sleep Play: Children’s Museum Exhibit
The Children's Museum of Manhattan recently opened a new exhibit, EatSleepPlay: Building Health Every Day. First off, we like the play on words from the popular book/movie Eat Sleep Pray. As far as this exhibit is concerned, it's an all-ages interactive experience and way for families to be healthy together.
While it's geared at being fun for the kids (take a look at some of the pictures on their site -- I'm sold!) it also seems to be an excellent resource for parents looking for advice, research and information on issues that they may be going through with their children. These concerns span from whether or not a child is getting enough exercise to how their bedtimes (presumably getting later as they get older) could be impacting them. Besides being pretty interesting, the exhibit says that all of the fun kid-friendly activities and info is based on recently medical and behavioral research.
While a few aspects of the exhibit may border on hokey for adults (like NYC Green Cart's "Meet the Super Sprowtz," a team of super-powered vegetable heroes), most of the exhibit highlights are truly made for everyone. The Decision Center, which uses games and simple routines to help develop the brain to make healthy choices. "Consequences," which lets kids crawl through a giant digestive system and follow nutrients into the body and pump a giant heart. Very cool! The Sleep Center shows kids why nothing can replace sleep for good health and disease prevention, and finally, the Play Center makes exercise fun at an early age by letting kids pedal, dance, run, bounce and jump together as a family. I feel like I need to go to this just to get a refresher on how to make good, healthy decisions and why my body needs more than 6 hours of sleep!
Credit: cmom.org
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