Exercise With Your Child!

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Dates:	Fri, Sat, Sun from 9/1/17 - 12/1/17
Hours:	Hours Vary see below
Ages:	Toddlers, Kids, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	Free
Category:	Health & Wellness

We are interested in finding out how active families are together and how much they enjoy being physically active together during different activities!

We will first ask to measure you and your child’s height and weight and then we will have a trained research assistant take you and your child through a physical activity session together.

The session will include 5 different physical activities for 8 minutes each.

The 5 activities include: jumping games, dancing, body-weight exercises, brisk walking, and a tag game.

We will briefly interview you at the end of the session and then we will give you a take-home worksheet with a detailed description of the activities and how to complete them at home, along with a calendar that will help you to plan out activities together and record how long you exercise for.

We will ask you to complete a brief phone call one week after attending our session to see which activities you completed at home, how long you completed them for, and where you completed them.

Also, each child will receive a free jump rope at the end of the community center session.

HOURS

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1.5 hours on either a Friday morning/afternoon, Saturday morning, or Sunday morning.

LOCATION

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100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA, 02125 map
Phone: 570-691-8813

Location at GoKids, on the Campus of UMass Boston

Subway:
Take the Red Line to JFK/UMass MBTA station. A free shuttle bus will carry you to campus.

Commuter Rail:
Take the commuter rail to the JFK/UMass MBTA station from the South Shore on the Middleboro, Plymouth and Greenbush lines. A free shuttle bus will carry you to campus.

Bus:
Take the Number 8 bus or the Number 16 bus to the JFK/UMass MBTA station. A free shuttle bus will carry you to campus.

By car from the north:
To campus
Take Interstate 93 South through Boston to Exit 15 (Columbia Road/JFK Library). Take a left at the end of the ramp onto Columbia Road, and then take your first right in the rotary. Follow the University of Massachusetts signs along Columbia Road and Morrissey Boulevard to campus.

By car from the south:
To campus
Take Interstate 93 North to exit 14 (Morrissey Boulevard/JFK Library) and follow Morrissey Boulevard north to campus.

By car from the west:
To campus
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) east to Interstate 93. Take I-93 South one mile to Exit 15 (JFK Library/South Boston/Dorchester). Take a left at the end of the ramp onto Columbia Road, and then take your first right in the rotary. Follow the University of Massachusetts signs along Columbia Road and Morrissey Boulevard to campus.