By Margaret Heaps
Our responsibility as a nation and especially as parents is to protect our kids from becoming fat adults. When we do this adequately, we will also be protecting them from adult diabetes, high blood pressure and heart attack. If your kids had the judgment of an adult, they would be very grateful for your seeming interference in their lives, as you teach them at a very early age, which foods are acceptable for building up their good health. You must know of their future gratitude within yourself and listen to your knowledge of that talking to you in the years to come.
When we talk about "acceptable foods", we have to start with, "'Who is in charge in your house?" Is it you, the parents or them, the kids?
Succulent Strawberry
We know they, the kids, do not have the judgment to be the parents, so why not stand up to the plate and become the parents now!
Alright, so now that you have taken over your role as parents what are you going to do? Let's start here: GOOD EXAMPLE from you. This is a top motivator for kids who see their parents doing what they want their kids to do, willingly. Eating Honey Smacks behind the pantry door will not do. They will know it and you will have lost the fight.
Do not serve foods that are high in sugar or fat. If you are doing the shopping and the cooking of the food you buy, you are in charge.
Do not buy the salty chips or the Twinkie type foods that are subsequently stashed in your cupboard. Your children will love and appreciate you for your delicious, nutritious, homemade cookies. Children climb into cupboards where you may think things are safe. Have you ever undergone your closet being ransacked while you are temporarily out of the house? Do not hide stuff in there either! A secret tunnel underground may work, but do not rely on it.
There should be nothing else around the house to eat but what you serve, or that you have condoned for their use as snacks. Portions of food should be monitored for each child, quietly, and modified to an adequate size for the size of child you are dealing with.
Even the teenagers!
Everyone exercises every day except the on the Sabbath. Everyone means Mom and Dad and the children and the dog. This comes under the GOOD EXAMPLE rule. To get started, you must take your child by the hand and show him the way. And when you both get thinner and are absent of adult heart "aches", you will be able to congratulate each other heartily.
I know that this is a big order for you, Parents, but if we let this stand as it is, we have been defeated have been defeated by the cereal companies and the Twinkie people who have spent fortunes advertising to our kids to shape their appetites to the cereal companies' and Twinkie peoples' needs. We have to ask ourselves whose needs come first, our kids or the huge cereal corporations'. And then, we must act accordingly! We cannot sacrifice our kids by our lack of interest, know-how or energy!
Margaret Heaps is a native born Californian who sees life as not long enough to fit everything in. She has grass roots in Petaluma, California and Nicasio, California, where her great grandfather bought land from gold that he mined in the Gold Rush of 1848 and created a high yield dairy farm. With this background legacy, she married and raised six boys, went back to school and became a registered nurse; this was her profession for many years. Now that she has retired, her energy level still high, she has built a new physical fitness website, and an entertaining blog to go with it. We are featuring many physical fitness products like home gyms, jump ropes, home exercise bicycles, pilates, punching bags for kids and adults, and many other exercise products.
You are invited to visit us at http://bloodcirculationhealth.com, or at our blog, http://Homeexerciseblog.com.
Our responsibility as a nation and especially as parents is to protect our kids from becoming fat adults. When we do this adequately, we will also be protecting them from adult diabetes, high blood pressure and heart attack. If your kids had the judgment of an adult, they would be very grateful for your seeming interference in their lives, as you teach them at a very early age, which foods are acceptable for building up their good health. You must know of their future gratitude within yourself and listen to your knowledge of that talking to you in the years to come.
When we talk about "acceptable foods", we have to start with, "'Who is in charge in your house?" Is it you, the parents or them, the kids?
Succulent Strawberry
We know they, the kids, do not have the judgment to be the parents, so why not stand up to the plate and become the parents now!
Alright, so now that you have taken over your role as parents what are you going to do? Let's start here: GOOD EXAMPLE from you. This is a top motivator for kids who see their parents doing what they want their kids to do, willingly. Eating Honey Smacks behind the pantry door will not do. They will know it and you will have lost the fight.
Do not serve foods that are high in sugar or fat. If you are doing the shopping and the cooking of the food you buy, you are in charge.
Do not buy the salty chips or the Twinkie type foods that are subsequently stashed in your cupboard. Your children will love and appreciate you for your delicious, nutritious, homemade cookies. Children climb into cupboards where you may think things are safe. Have you ever undergone your closet being ransacked while you are temporarily out of the house? Do not hide stuff in there either! A secret tunnel underground may work, but do not rely on it.
There should be nothing else around the house to eat but what you serve, or that you have condoned for their use as snacks. Portions of food should be monitored for each child, quietly, and modified to an adequate size for the size of child you are dealing with.
Even the teenagers!
Everyone exercises every day except the on the Sabbath. Everyone means Mom and Dad and the children and the dog. This comes under the GOOD EXAMPLE rule. To get started, you must take your child by the hand and show him the way. And when you both get thinner and are absent of adult heart "aches", you will be able to congratulate each other heartily.
I know that this is a big order for you, Parents, but if we let this stand as it is, we have been defeated have been defeated by the cereal companies and the Twinkie people who have spent fortunes advertising to our kids to shape their appetites to the cereal companies' and Twinkie peoples' needs. We have to ask ourselves whose needs come first, our kids or the huge cereal corporations'. And then, we must act accordingly! We cannot sacrifice our kids by our lack of interest, know-how or energy!
Margaret Heaps is a native born Californian who sees life as not long enough to fit everything in. She has grass roots in Petaluma, California and Nicasio, California, where her great grandfather bought land from gold that he mined in the Gold Rush of 1848 and created a high yield dairy farm. With this background legacy, she married and raised six boys, went back to school and became a registered nurse; this was her profession for many years. Now that she has retired, her energy level still high, she has built a new physical fitness website, and an entertaining blog to go with it. We are featuring many physical fitness products like home gyms, jump ropes, home exercise bicycles, pilates, punching bags for kids and adults, and many other exercise products.
You are invited to visit us at http://bloodcirculationhealth.com, or at our blog, http://Homeexerciseblog.com.
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