Health
Education for Kid
"Teaching
a child to listen the signs of wellbeing coming from its body "
~Teaching
my child about health and wellbeing is the first step in providing a
lifelong basis for a healthy life. Second for a parent like me is to
actually be a rolemodel and life a healthy life so that my kid can imitate
and be familiar with a healthy lifestyle as part of her normal upbringing
~ But for me child health education also means enjoying sweets in balance
to healthy food and being seen to learn along side my child rather than
assume an air of superiority.
~For me healthy living is more than just providing a healthy diet for
kid, it is a nurturing positive attitude towards all kinds of foods
and the teaching a general awareness that the nourishing of the body
enables kids to live a funfilled life.
~ For me, when I teach my daughter about child health education and
food choices I am hoping to enable her to make an informed decision
for herself rather than simply providing food for her..
~ There are so many people doctors and health practitioners, mother
in laws and well meaning friends trying to tell me what is right for
my child, how I should or should not feed my child
~For me I try and follow my intuition, follow my inborn instinct that
is called mothering from the heart and trust
my knowing that I will pass onto my child .
~ For many mums that maybe the hardest part, when bombarded with conflicting
literature, healthy eating books advocating differing fads and your
health practitioners reaching for a pill faster than you can say what
your actual health for kid issue is.
~ When so often the family unit no longer includes a community of women
that support each other in child health education, when women find themselves
as single parents unable to call on feminine support passed down advice
through the ages.
~ So here I am going to write down what have found helpful, what others
have found helpful and create a sharing platform that may bring a different
point of view into the sea of sameness and might just help another mum
to trust her intuition.
