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Hey hey hey, it's Nichole Kellerman here and we're on to another episode of Health
Nugs. Okay, so today is a part 2 of our 3-part series of I care about my child's health.
If you care about your child's health, make sure you check out the video below with the
part 1 and get all the parts of this awesome series. So you know, you are the BIGGEST ROLE
MODEL in their life. And it is vital. Monkey see, monkey do that you take care of yourself and
speak highly of yourself because if you show your lack of self-esteem in yourself, that's
going to be reflected right into your children. So things that you should not do in front
of your kids. Never talk about calories. Never say the word fat, ugly, stupid or anything
that is talking badly about yourself. So, used to be up upon yourself that we're not
used to thinking highly about ourselves. Never ever talk about a diet that you're on, you're
trying to be skinny or thin. Never ever talk about those things because you could just
imagine what kind of message you are sending to your own child and this could be to your son
too, not just your daughter. The things that you should do when you are in the presence
of your children is talk about foods that make you feel good- healthy food! Always associating
healthy things with good feelings and unhealthy things with bad feelings. So you're eating
vegetables and fruits, you're eating lean meats and you're eating really healthily.
You're talking about how it gives you energy so it's gonna make you sleep good and makes
you happy. And the things that aren t that healthy, you know they're high in sugar. You
talk about how it's gonna make you cranky and tired and sad. And so really associating
those different feelings with food because over time, they will start to make choices
of their own and ideally, as long as you are associating good things with healthy foods,
they are going to choose the healthier. Im also talking about highly about yourself.
Say how you are smart and how you are beautiful because you are, even though Helga when say
yapping your ear and tell you're not. - you are! You need to voice straight that! You
need to speak those things about yourself so your children see that and they ll replicate
it. We are so mean to ourselves. We would never talk to anybody else how badly we talk
about ourselves. Right? Isn't that so so sad? So I want you to really be aware of that this
week. Be aware of the things that you say and the actions that you take in front of
your children and ask yourself, "Am I being who I want them to become?" Am I being who
I want them to become? Write that on the sticky note; put it on your mirror, put it on your
kitchen, put it in places to snap you out of those self-defeating ways of thinking and
ways of living that you are putting on to your children. In the comments section below,
I want to hear from you. What is that one thing that you re gonna start today to be
a better role model for your child. I really really want to hear from you and when other
women come into this page and check out the comments section, you are going to inspire
them to do the same for their children so you can see this is how going to be revolved.