You won’t always get it right. You can’t control everything in every environment. You will not always know the answer.
However, as a Mom or Dad you can make some easy choices everyday to bring your children to better health, develop good habits and change the future.
Here are some healthy ideas. Your Mission, if you choose to accept it – Pick a Few and Just Do!
Stop making excuses. Stop the bad habits you created yourself. Stop finding ways to justify putting them off just one more day.
Some ideas on good habits to start:
- Drink water with every meal. Bottom line: We’re dehydrated more than we should be. There’s no reason to drink our calories. Water is the best choice there is and making it a habit is easy!
- Keep the t.v. off during meal time. Bottom line: Engaging with your family is much more fun and healthy than that box.
- Eat fresh fruit and vegetables everyday. Bottom line: They are good for you and you can eat them raw! Less time cooking and more time with the family!
- Spread food thinly over the plate. Bottom line: It’s the piles of food that brought us to an obesity epidemic. Spread it out and you’ll reduce your portion size without feeling the pain.
- Leave time in the morning to start the day off right. Bottom line: We all know if we get out of bed on the wrong side that it’s going to be a rotten day. Why would you choose to start your nutrition in the negative?
Can you pick one or two of these things to start today? Not tomorrow!
People ask me all the time if making healthy choices in our family is hard. Absolutley not. Sickness is hard. Doctor visits are hard. Medication is hard. Making healthy choices and enjoying our days feeling well – EASY!
Our family also chooses a multi-vitamin for our children that has a probiotic built right in….sooo cost effective! See our choice here. (NOTE: The bottle is a two month supply for one child.)
What do you do everyday to help keep your family well?
