If you have a child that is dealing with weight issues and you find yourself nagging him or her to lose weight, then you may not realize that nagging is not the best way to help them lose weight. You can actually run the risk of straining your relationship with your child. However, as a parent of an overweight child, it is your duty to help them lose weight and develop healthy eating and exercise habits, which means learning how to help your child in the best possible way. Correcting the diet habits of your children can become increasingly harder as they age, especially as they become increasingly aware of bad foods like McDonalds and other fast food choices. For this reason, you should aim to help your child lose weight early, and let them grow up with healthy food and exercise habits so that they can make smart decisions as they grow up.
- Avoid pushing new diets on your child.
Rather teach them the basics of good nutrition and exercise, so that he or she has the necessary tools to make the right decisions. Your children are old enough to make the right decisions, and you need to facilitate that rather than simply forcing it on your child. Diets may seem like the answer at first, but it is much more useful to teach them correct eating and good nutrition so you can be a good role model rather than the person that forced a diet on him or her.
- Avoid forcing exercise on your child.
Find ways instead to get your child more active without stressing him or her out. There are plenty of ways to exercise that are fun. Get your child involved in a sport or an after school activity. Even games like "Dance Dance Revolution
- Avoid projecting your feelings onto your child.
You may have had body issues as a child, but you do not need to project this onto your child, who is probably already dealing with issues. You do not want to create self image problems in your child if you can help it. Let your child develop his or her own self image rather than forcing your self image issues onto him or her.
- Praise your child for weight loss, but only sparingly.
You do not want your child to feel pressured into weight loss, you are going to want it to be healthy and proactive. Your children may be over weight, but they need to learn about healthy weight loss, not unhealthy weight loss for the sake of pleasing you, or avoiding negative comments.
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Originally posted 2009-01-21 05:05:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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As far as exercise goes, if your kids are asking to participate in a physical activity, then if possible let them participate. They may already have the motivation, they may just need equipment and a ride to practice a couple of times a week.
My parents never got this, I would have loved to join a sports team, but all they ever did was push areobics tapes on me which I hated. And I loved to ride my bike, but when I outgrew my old one they bought me one that was too big for me and I couldn’t ride anymore. I loved to go running outside, but they’d never let me out of the house or take me someplace where I could go for a run. You’d be surprised at how much your kids want to get up and move if they only had the opportunity…
Great article, which I really think nails the key on the head is to start early, so that your children become accustomed from the get-go to a lifestyle of eating healthy and exercising daily.
Jade also makes a very good point. Sometimes all you need to do is listen to your children and let them guide you instead of trying to fashion everything for your children. Children in general will want to run around and be active and expend all the excess energy they have. If you take them out on fun activities over weekends and after school if time permits and then listen to them and see which things excite and engage them, it will go a long way to supporting them effectively.
I think limiting tv and gaming time and being a role model to get out and go for walks, play at the park are good ideas too.
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