One Of The Keys To Healthy Kids

Being a parent is by far one of the most important jobs you will ever hold. While this child may just show up in your life one day they will be there watching your every move. It is important that you not only tell your children the right way to act and behave and how to manage their lives but you also must choose to model behaviors that coincide with the habits and values that you are looking to teach them.

Good healthy habits should not just start at birth for the child, but should start before the child is born and continue on after birth. A good role model is the most effective way to train young developing minds the right habits to keep the rest of their life. Many parents realize that they must clean up some areas of their own lives to bring up a child in the right environment. Many see the necessity of quitting smoking and other very negative unhealthy habits. Kids will mimic what their parents or guardians do, always. Being a parent is a real big deal, regardless of the angle you view it from.

Setting the bar high for yourself will help your children to learn the healthiest habits from the beginning and this can help them to live a longer, healthier, and happier life. Good eating habits and daily exercise are things that can be role modeled for your children even before your child is walking, talking, or eating solid foods. Children learn a lot during those initial months and while it may seem that they are just sitting in their baby seat drooling and gurgling they are actually watching and listening to everything that you say and do.

This mimicking is what helps children to become adults and they can learn very quickly either the rights things to do or the wrong ones. Many parents fail to realize how easily influenced an infant is but when you look at children who spend only their first few years in an abusive or neglectful situation and are damaged for life it is easy to see how much of their behaviors and attitudes towards the world are formed in those initial years.

A parent that realizes the importance of healthy habits and the impact they will have on their child should be incentive enough to take a good hard look at their own habits and behaviors and change the things that need to be changed for the sake of the child. Making the right changes in your own life could be the edge your child needs to copy to have a healthy and happy adulthood.