Friday, July 6, 2007

What kind of role model are you? Do you reward your child with a piece of candy or some other food prize? Do you involve your children and family in your healthy lifestyle? Do you not think that they are worth it? Do you not think that they deserve the best in life? Do you not love them enough to want them to be healthy too?
Your children, do they find themselves going outside to play, climb in the trees, run in the sprinkler or do they sit in front of the tv watching cartoons, playing some video game?
When you say its dinner time, do you sit at the table as a family enjoying each others company or do you find yourselves in front of the tv or computer eating dinner possibly even in seperate rooms? Or do you think the family dinner is when you order pizza or KFC?

What do you do with your life and your familys' life to show that you value their life? What do you want for yourself? What about those precious ones in your life?

This comes from me observing the family life of some of those who are around me. I have seen the parent reward their child like a dog and give them a piece of candy everytime they did something right. Its not that they shouldnt be praised but should be praising our children with food, most of all candy especially at an early age. What is that teaching them about the values of food?

And families these days, have so little time together, why not make sure that you are spending at least one meal together. Asking about each others day, teaching your children the value of meal time, family time.

I know that there are some adjustments in my own life that I need to make before having a child. But I am glad that I see it now, want to change now and working at the changes now. I want my family to have a good strong outlook on life, I want them to be able to make good decisions on life. I want them to be healthy, strong.

So let me ask you, what do you want for yourself and your family? What decisions are you going to make that will impact your family?

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