A Healthy Attitudz is All about BALANCE

Healthy Attitudz® LLC – Let’s begin our journey together with one of the most important aspects of inspiring and educating a child on the benefits of making healthy choices. That aspect is balance. It is imperative for a child to start learning early that more than anything, being healthy is all about finding balance. As a child grows, he or she will learn to identify a balance between food and fun.

As a parent, you can help to instill this message with your child by explaining energy. The ‘energy in’ is the food they consume. The food is fuel that fills up their tanks. Explain to your child that some fuel is better and lasts longer than other fuels. For example, the energy obtained from a simple sugar snack food item such as a cookie does not provide the sustained energy that an apple provides. Try this! Here is a fun way to interact with your child to educate them on this lesson. Simply ask your child whether or not a food choice provides their growing bodies with good fuel or not so good fuel. Observe as their minds churn as they start to assess what they select before consuming it. It’s fun, try it!

The second half of the balance equation is ‘energy out’. Explain to your child that they fuel their bodies with good fuel so they can produce sustained ‘energy out’. They produce ‘energy out’ when they perform physical activities such as playing, running, skipping, jumping, and even laughing! Here is a fun way to interact with your child to educate them on this lesson. Create a simple fuel tank meter picture with numbers on it from 1 -10, where 1 means that the fuel tank is close to empty. Then, ask your child a couple of questions after they have finished playing their favorite physical activity. Simply ask your child how much ‘energy out’ they feel they created and ask them to point to the fuel meter to show you how full or empty their fuel tanks are. Again, observe their minds churn as their creative minds visualize their own inner fuel tank meters! It’s fun, try it!

Let me know how it goes!