Got Kids? 
No Comments The Parental Diet
Any halfway decent parent wants to have their child be healthy. We look out for them as best as we can by getting them helmets to protect their heads when bicycling along with elbow and knee pads to reduce the number of scraps from falling down. The list can go on all the way from prenatal care until they are out of the house.
(No it is not helpful to clean their room for them for the sake of their safety. That’s enabling bad behavior. )
We can take every precaution we can think of but still fail miserably because we forget the most crucial aspect of keeping our children healthy. That is us, the parents, being a role model of what it is to be healthy. The kids watch us and copy us all the time. If you drink alcohol, your actions are approving it. If you smoke cigarettes, they will likely smoke cigarettes. The list goes on and on. But there is one part of the list we often overlook.
Are we, the parents, eating healthy? Are we stuffing pizza and sodas down our throats or are we sticking to the salads, chicken, fruits, vegetables and drinking our share of milk and water? Or are you slamming 8 cans of Coke or Mountain Dew a day and eating like a bird?
This is a lesson we have learned as we guide our daughters down the path of nutrition for a healthy body and healthy teeth. Yuri eats what I eat and has copied me for a long time. So I have to watch what I put in my mouth and where I eat it too. Her skills of watching and listening to anything I say or do no matter how sneaky or quiet is picked up by her.
So for the sake of my daughter and her future health, I have to eat right. I have to exercise and lead her in such things. After all, I am a parent who wants a healthy child. I’m the role model. Tag, I’m it.
Live well and make it a great day,
Anah
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
