Any adult who is caring for a child needs to make sure their child eats correct and knows what wholesome eating is all about. It is no secret that our eating routine have a tremendous impact on continued health, or lack thereof, in later life. You know how much your children are subjected to harmful food and eating influences. Of course it is impossible to protect them from such harmful messages. That is why healthy diet habits are a must, so they can make the best selections for themselves. What you can also do is give them the best choices for healthy food. Going further, actively teach them about the benefit of eating healthily and why it is so important.
There is an effective strategy that involves encouraging your kids to think about food from the viewpoint of what they value in their lives. They will not necessarily see that, so you must suggest to them how the foods they eat have an impact on what is important to them. For example, healthy meats that are not fatty can be presented as helping them to become more powerful which will help them with athletics. Another illustration concerns veggies and fruits, so what you do is talk to them about how those foods contain antioxidants, etc. At that point, you relate antioxidants to their appearance in terms of good skin, their smile (teeth) and even their hair.
Never discipline your child by refusing to let them eat on a normal routine. You may have read stories from your mother and father about that happening to them, but psychologists have concluded that it is not healthful for your child. If your child is repeatedly subject to this kind of food restricting environment, there can often be harmful habits or conditions developed later. If you do this too much, you can actually harm your child due to poor nutrition. This type of abuse can even cause your child to become obese as a teenager.
Whenever possible, try to organize everybody's schedule so you can all take supper at the same time. There are correlations involving this simple act of family members eating together and more positive behaviors later during teen years. One excellent lesson that does seem to occur is greater understanding of nutritious eating as well as more healthier formed eating habits. We do recognize that this may be hard on everyone due to schedules, but it is worth trying to do this as much as possible. The advantages can still be seen even if only done a couple of times per week.
If you are at a loss about where to begin - then begin with your own self and start reading solid information about the topic. You will uncover no shortage of information on this particular subject and mainly thanks to the internet. Once you do this, you will feel more self-assured about teaching your children. The effects of either doing it or not will be far-reaching.
