According to the survey by the Centre for Disease Control about one-third of American children are either overweight or at risk for becoming overweight. But the obesity epidemic is also evident throughout other parts of the world especially the industrialized nations.
One of the most loving things that you can do as a parent is to provide your children with nutritionally sound food and make sure they are active. With the recent rise in childhood obesity it has become apparent that too much fast food and a sedentary lifestyle is to blame. Try to lead by example by keeping the sweets and fatty foods to a minimum in your home and encourage regular exercise by making it part of your families regular routine.
Happy Parenting
Monicka
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Gift of Goal Setting
When I was at university, I learned about Goal Setting and about various study techniques (watch out in the next Kids Goals newsletter for some interesting ways to help your kids with homework, by the way) ... and I was so taken aback by the power of these techniques that I have felt compelled ever since to figure out ways to help kids learn these things at a much younger age.
I believe that I would have been much more successful in everything in life if I had been given the gift of being taught to set and achieve goals when I was a small child. Like learning a language, if something like goal setting is taught very early on, it can become a natural part of a person, so that they do it successfully without much effort or thought required.
Imagine if your parents never taught you the habit of brushing your teeth - how much more difficult it would be to acquire that habit as a grown up?
THAT's why I say that any parent (or aunt, teacher, etc) that takes the time to teach a child how to set goals is giving them a wonderful gift!
Happy goal setting with your kids,
Cassie
I believe that I would have been much more successful in everything in life if I had been given the gift of being taught to set and achieve goals when I was a small child. Like learning a language, if something like goal setting is taught very early on, it can become a natural part of a person, so that they do it successfully without much effort or thought required.
Imagine if your parents never taught you the habit of brushing your teeth - how much more difficult it would be to acquire that habit as a grown up?
THAT's why I say that any parent (or aunt, teacher, etc) that takes the time to teach a child how to set goals is giving them a wonderful gift!
Happy goal setting with your kids,
Cassie
Monday, February 26, 2007
A Star is Born
Happy Monday Everyone
Just a very short blog but hopefully one that will really make you think. I just finished watching the Academy Awards and Jennifer Hudson pretty much a nobody a few years ago took home the Oscar for best supporting actress for Dream Girls. I saw an interview with her a few weeks ago and she said she owed it all to her family because they believed in her and had NO DOUBT she would accomplish great things.... kind of says it all doesn't it.
Happy Parenting
Monicka
Just a very short blog but hopefully one that will really make you think. I just finished watching the Academy Awards and Jennifer Hudson pretty much a nobody a few years ago took home the Oscar for best supporting actress for Dream Girls. I saw an interview with her a few weeks ago and she said she owed it all to her family because they believed in her and had NO DOUBT she would accomplish great things.... kind of says it all doesn't it.
Happy Parenting
Monicka
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