Is Your Child or Teen At Real Danger?

Why do most mothers and fathers have so much problems with the overindulging or obese youngsters? Probably it’s because as parents we were all trained to be nourishing, give love and take care of all the requirements of our children. Our love is generally identified by feeding. No one wants to be confronted with the fact they are not as great a parent as they should be. Remarkably, hundreds of thousands of mothers and fathers of overweight young children think being underweight is more important than overweight. 80% of the mother and father believed their children to be only “slightly overweight” or even “normal.” when they are blatantly obese.

If you imagine your son or daughter or teenager is overeating or overweight , don’t justify it as a “phase.” Chances are the issue won’t go away. Ignoring your child’s eating problems can lead to more dangerous problems in the future. Poor eating routines take time to learn and therefore are difficult and sometimes almost impossible to alter. On the other hand giving your overeating kid a diet, reducing foods or insisting that they eat different meals from other family members will only lead to much more eating in the end.

As a mother or father you might believe that talking about your overeating boys and girls and teenagers is politically inappropriate and less importance should be placed on body fat and physical appearance. You may fear talking about overeating with a girl will promote an eating problem later on in life. If you battled with your weight as a boy or girl you may possibly be far more vulnerable about the issues and do not want to utilize disparaging terms about your children, particularly when play ground bullies taunted you years in the past.

Nevertheless, excess weight gain is a significant problem. If you dismiss overeating in your child or teenager, he or she will gain pounds and suffer not only the difficulties that obese adults experience- high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes but anxiousness, depression and problems due to reduced self respect. You may have already witnessed the dreadful teasing your obese children and teenagers are uncovered to from their classmates. It’s the teasing and ridicule that your youngsters deal with that may actually be more important than their body weight.…

Tips For Helping Your Child Become a Savvy Consumer

Every holiday from New Year’s to Christmas and everything else in between provides opportunities for families and businesses to celebrate. It offers a time for families to gather and do something special and it gives business a chance to increase their revenues. As a result, the holidays and other occasions, such as back to school, are always accompanied by ample media messages in print and on the screen. We have come to know these as commercials and advertisements, and every holiday comes with new enticements to buy, buy, buy!

Commercials and advertisements have been around since the 1950’s and every generation has been exposed to the shopping hype during the holiday season. Tis’ the season for a constant barrage of media messages from various sources. Everyone that watches receives overt or subliminal messages from businesses that desperately want us to buy their wares – from a company trying to convince you that your child needs a particular item in order to reach his or her potential, to playing upon a parent’s fear that their child’s safety is at stake and a cell phone is what is needed to bring peace of mind.

As difficult as these messages may be for us adults to sort out and resolve, we are able to filter out what these cooperate conglomerates are attempting to do. We are able to think for ourselves and we have our values to guide us. Most of us are confident about our parenting identity and what we want for our children.

So where does that leave our children? Unfortunately, young children are very easily influenced by media messages, especially television commercials. Young children will use them to determine what is cool and what they think they need. The average child sees more than 40,000 commercials each year. Commercials are quick, fast-paced and entertaining. They are easy to remember with catchy phrases that try to convince your child they can’t live without a certain product.

How many of you have experienced a constant request for certain toys, products, or clothing that your children have seen advertised on TV or on the internet? Once a commercial has enticed your child, the nag factor sets in. We have to expect that when kids are bombarded by ads telling them to buy certain products in order to be popular – that nagging will soon follow.

According to a national survey of youth commissioned by the Center for a New American Dream,

??? the average American child aged 12-17 will ask their parents for products they’ve seen advertised on TV an average of nine times until their parents finally give in.

??? for parents of so-called “tweens”, 12-13 year olds, these children admit to asking their parents more than fifty times for products they’ve seen advertised.

Ask yourself if this is what you want to deal with when your child is that age?

We may not be able to control the images and enticements our children are bombarded with out there in the community at large but we certainly can maintain some control over which messages creep into our homes. How does a parent in today’s media generated culture keep excessive commercialism from negatively impacting their child and the true spirit of the holidays? Here are some tips to help you get started.

Help Your Child Think Critically about TV

Whenever possible, talk to your child about what they see on television. If your child is very young she may not be able to tell the difference between a show, a commercial, a cartoon or real life and that characters on TV are make-believe and not real. For older children you can always turn a commercial or an advertisement into a learning experience by helping your child find the appropriate message. Always remember, if you do not want your child exposed to certain messages, you can either turn off the TV or explain why you object.

Help your child resist commercials

Do not expect your child to be able to resist ads for toys, candy, snacks, cereal, drinks or new programs without your help. When your child asks for products advertised on TV, explain that the purpose of commercials is to make people want things they may not need. Limit the number of commercials your child sees by watching public television stations (PBS) or other educational programing. You also can record programs and leave out the commercials or buy or rent children’s videos or DVDs.

Make television viewing a team sport.

If your schedule prevents you from watching TV together as a family, try recording the programs so that you can watch them with your child at a later time. Watching TV with your children whenever you can allows you to mute the television during commercial breaks. This is a great time to discuss …

Healthy Tips Are Required For Child Growth

Maintaining a good health is a habit and it can be start in any age. Today, when people don’t have time to do exercise and due to machinery support, extreme care and maintenance of body is needed, so that each part of our body works well. Bad health of children affects their education as well. There are so many online portals that tell us about good nutrition and fitness tips. You should enroll to such blogs, sites and they will send you good tips to be fit, and fine while enjoying healthy life forever. One mail daily that lands to our inbox can save our life to a good extent.

If a child is healthy then he will take part in all physical activity that arrange in school. In some cases the child does not grow properly due to poor nutrition or lack of some essential nutrients. And the child remains weak for all his life and cannot enjoy the daily life activities. Such children will not take part in any physical activity in schools. A good Health is real wealth that a person can earn in his life. As you have seen the poor people children always suffer from malnutrition due to lack of nutrient. People don’t want to talk to person who is ill in any way. Bad health will affect in carrier growth as well.

Parents should ensure that meals they are serving to their children are small interval and full of nutrient. A good amount of pure water is very necessary for every human being. Fresh salads such as lettuce, carrot, tomato, and cucumber are good option for health and fitness. One glass of fruit juice can help out to detoxify and de-stress. Daily intake of oranges, pears, apples, and papaya will be very helpful. In today’s competitive world, children are much stressed which in turn will be affecting their immunity. If immunity is low then they will fall ill frequently. Eating out on roadside can result in stomach problem, intestine infection and many types of viral attacks. It is a good practice for household to cook at home and serve healthy food which is clean and hygiene.

High calorie or fast foods can make the children dull and sleepy while prevent them from concentrating on their studies. Children should be advised not to drink juices sold at roadside eateries. Perhaps, contains chemicals that affect our health to a large extent.

A balanced diet and regular exercise are not enough to be healthy; people should go for routine checkup of their health in clinics to make sure their body is healthy. Schools are a best place to acquire healthy knowledge apart from health website. Teachers should be aware enough about the benefits of good health.…