Some parents struggle finding activities for their children, including teenagers, in the coldest days of winter.
When the temperatures drop below freezing for days, and sometimes weeks, in a row, many families have a difficult time finding ways for their energetic children to stay busy from the time they come home from school until it is time to go to bed. These same parents can also face long weekends when the only option is paying the high price of indoor entertainment options like indoor trampoline centers and other activities.
One option that makes perfect sense when the temperatures plummet is the installation of a back yard ice rink. From the daughter who is busy watching for any and all kinds of news about her favorite Olympic and professional figure skaters to your son who loves to be active but never has enough snow to suit his purposes, a back yard ice rink can be a great solutions. Included with ice rink liners and ice rink tarps, a back yard ice rink can take complete advantage of the coldest days of the winter. Without requiring you to get in your car to provide rides or to get in your wallet to pay expensive private rink fees, an investment in a back yard ice rink can make the decision to go skating for a few minutes or many hours is always an option.
Homemade ice rinks have often been a popular attraction in homes in the northern part of the U.S., but the availability of manufactured products, including ice rink brackets, can make these popular activity areas more accessible and manageable.
Are You Looking for Ways to Keep Your Young Children and Teenagers Active During the Winter Months?
It probably comes as no surprise that participating in sports can make significant improvements to cardiovascular endurance. Furthermore, increased cardiovascular health decreases the risk for heart disease, the number one killer disease claiming almost 800,000 lives in in the year 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Getting your children and teenagers in the habit of being active rather than sitting in the house gaming can be a challenge for some families. Chances are, however, if you model a healthy and active lifestyle your children will follow your example. Building a home ice skating rink can help you model a great activity, teach your children a new sport, and encourage them to invite their friends to your house so that you know who they are hanging out with.
Back yard skating rinks enable families to host winter events that allow parents and their children to spend quality time together. Whether you have the rink set up so that a group can play hockey, or you allow the ice to be used for figure skating practice, parents who skate with their children can create a lifetime of memories.
Are you aware how popular ice skating is? In the year 2014, for example, the number of ice skating participants participants who are six years and older amounted to approximately 10.65 million. Unfortunately, getting ice time for these skating enthusiasts can be difficult. In fact, the U.S. only has 1,900 indoor ice hockey rinks and a mere 500 outdoor ice hockey rinks. This means that free ice time can be both challenging to find and expensive. Building your own back yard rink means that instead of spending money in the winter to pay for a very popular and pricey sport you can actually invest in your own rink.
In addition, some high school and college age students can actually earn an income from the back yard rink. Just like kids who make money teaching swimming lessons in their back yard pool, a back yard rink allows your hockey player or ice skating enthusiast to teach basic skating lessons to beginners, both children and adults.
You do not have to build your own rink to spend time with your children, but sometimes a special sport or location can help parents and teenagers bond. To Pew Research reports that since the 19703 the time fathers spend on child care has almost tripled; and, even though 71% of mothers now work outside of the home, they now spend 57% more time with their children that they did in the 70s.
