How Your Grandchildren Can Keep You Young

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lyn_J_Rayner]Lyn J Rayner
As we grow older and reach our senior years we suddenly take on a whole new interest of what is going to slow down the aging process. We start to take a close look at our lifestyle and we take a closer look at those fountain of youth products. All of a sudden eating better, getting proper rest and counting each day as a blessing becomes the priority. Yet for many of us we have possessed one of the best anti age commodities known to man and we don't realize it. This precious commodity is our grandchildren.
We often don't realize it but we can really escalate our aging process just by the way we think. Its not uncommon to all of a sudden when you hit the age of sixty five and society says you are a senior that you all of sudden begin to think old. Maybe being out in a field throwing a baseball is not such a good idea, or getting up at the crack of dawn to venture out on a fishing trip with the kids is going to cause too many aches and pains. You are what you think you are. If you think you are old then you are going to act this way. Sure you may not be able to run a relay race with the grandkids but I be if you think about it you can walk many miles right along beside them.
The key is to become involved with the grandkids on an active level. Its wonderful for the kids to come over and have a wonderfully cooked meal prepared by grandma, followed by her famous apple pie. But hey, how about  spending the afternoon apple picking before this great event.
You are going to be actively involved, get some great exercise which you can bet is going to make you feel good. Instead of sitting by the swimming pool enjoying watching the kids play about, get in there with them. Again the benefits that you will derive from this are immense.
Let your grandchildren play an active role in keeping you young in mind, body and soul. By doing this you have the extra bonus of leaving your grandchildren with a legacy of memories that will last them a lifetime.
How many times do we as seniors make the comment that things aren't like the way they used to be. Yet we are often the culprits for allowing the modern world to rob us of the values and lifestyles that we were used to as kids, instead of passing these own. We are in fact contributors to the old fashioned family drifting apart.
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