Love Your Child month continues with this double-duty tip: Build your child’s brain and body. Provide healthful meals and snacks and model good eating habits. Encourage exercise by being active with your child and limiting time in front of the television or video games. Support your child’s efforts in school and provide opportunities to learn by visiting the library, exploring museums, zoos or other places of interest.

The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston is always free to visitors — why not stretch your body and mind by strolling over to enjoy some stimulating art? Other free, family-friendly, body-and-mind enhancing activities in Houston you can do today include a visit to the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum, Holocaust Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston Center for Photography, The Jung Center, Lawndale Art Center, the Menil Collection, Rice University Art Gallery, or the Rothko Chapel.

Have you visited any of these exhibits before? What were your thoughts? Please post other local, free and family-friendly ideas in the comments section below!