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Are you a good role model for your kids?

Posted: Jun 10th 2007 8:57AM by Rigel Celeste
Filed under: Healthy Habits, Healthy Kids

If living better for your own health isn't enough motivation, what about living better for your children's health? Your kids watch and learn from everything you do, so are you showing and teaching them the right eating and health choices? Things you may not even think about, like reaching for the salt shaker all the time or piling your plate high with meat and potatoes (while leaving out the vegetables and grains) soak into your children's sensitive personalities and help to form the habits and lifestyle perspectives they will carry with them through life. Are your kids soaking up good stuff or bad?

And remember that making an effort to be a good role model for your kids and leading by example won't just help them, it will help you too!

The Road to Fitville 10.3: we all need role models

Posted: Oct 3rd 2006 4:02PM by Larissa Brown
Filed under: Fitness, Healthy Habits, Motivation and Inspiration, Healthy Kids

The Internet is chock full of advice to parents who ought to be good fitness role models for their children. Like these tips for being a healthy role model to your daughter, most advice is specific, sound, and...focused on kids.

Clearly this is important. But what about us grown-ups who struggle with the ups and downs of trying to build and maintain a fit lifestyle? Who commit to exercise and then don't feel like keeping it up, or who want to eat mindfully and healthfully but then blow it? Repeatedly? Don't we need someone to show us that everyday people can and do make fitness a fun and normal part of their lives?

I say yes! And I'm not talking about professional ice skaters and Linda Hamilton in T2. We all need regular people like ourselves to be fitness peers with--to admire, emulate, and look to for support and mentoring especially because we are so much like them. Not a world apart.

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