Change Yourself to Improve Your Children
Change Yourself to Improve Your Children
Problems and bad habbits that children develop can often be attributed to the actions or reactions of us, their parents. Therefore, a careful examination of our attitudes, beliefs and actions and how they might affect our children can be a very worthwhile exercise.
Below is a list of some common bad habits that if recognised now can be easily changed before they damage your children.
Bad Diet
We all know that sometimes it's really not as easy as it sound to say no to your child's demands for high calorie foods, especially if your son or daughter is a fussy eater, many parents would rather have them eating something rather than nothing. However, try to think to the future, of your child. You don't want a child at 18 or younger struggling with their weight or health because you've indulged them on sweets and chocolates. Remember, you control their diet now, so now you're setting the ground work for their life-long eating habits.
Inactivity
Do you drive everywhere? Is your physical exercise limited to walking from the house to the car and running around after the kids? Many of us are guilty of it, let's face it, it's not easy to fit physical exercise into a busy lifestyle even if you have some spare time, you probably feel you don't have the spare energy!
I'm sure I don't need to stress how important it is though, for both you and your child. Try family bike rides, family hiking trips or swap family treats from the cinema to roller-skating or ice-skating. Try walking or cycling your child to school instead of driving them. Start good habits now that your child will keep for life.
Uncontrolled Anger
Even if your anger is not directed towards your child, they will feel the effects of arguments going on around them between parents or friends of the family. If your anger is directed towards your child, it could leave them feeling insecure, unhappy and unloved as well as causing behavioural problems. What your child sees in you is all they know and they'll replicate it. If your child sees lots of uncontrolled outbursts of anger, they'll react like this too.
No Clear Guidelines
Most of us know that children need guidelines; when you tell them NO stick to it! Don't give in to tantrums or crying or begging for sweets or more TV or whatever it is they want. If you tell your child one thing and then give into their pressure, you're teaching them that's how they can get their own way and they'll continue to act in that way.
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