How to Help Kids Eat Healthy

by Caitlin O'Shea - Dental Practitioner
(New Brunswick, Canada)

How to Help Kids Eat Healthy

I would also like to share my own experiences onhow to help kids eat healthy. This has something more to do on how you will let kids have their own way when it comes to food even if it is no longer eating healthy. You see, when I was a child I was hardly active and ate most of the time. The thing is I always had my way because my parents were afraid that I would throw up a fit.

Until I started getting sick. I was hospitalized for a week because I was having hypertension at age 12. They stuck with me needles which I remembered as very painful because the nurse found it hard to get a good vein to stick the needle in. I saw my mom crying every night and I really felt sorry for her because I knew she wanted to see me happy. I heard her ask the nurse about any tips she might know on how to help kids eat healthy

The doctor showed a different way on how he could help kids eat healthy. When I got better, the doctor talked really seriously to me and said he never wanted me to be his patient again. He looked a little stern. He told me that the best way for us not to meet was to drink my medicine and eat the right kind of food.

He will meet with me from time to time just to make sure I was following orders but not in a hospital bed again. If I did not obey everything that was told to me, he will just prick me with the large needles that he uses for grown ups so everything will work fast. I took all that seriously so I obeyed everything. In my later years, and when I got better he said that I was a notorious little brat and he just wanted to have the upper hand.

When I became a parent myself, I did not want to raise a child like me. I was so spoiled rotten that even my eating habits were affected. I researched the net for proper ways on how to help kids eat healthy and I was glad I found a lot of help myself. Actually, I learned a lot from my parents regarding ways on how to help kids eat healthy, and that is not to spoil them.

Let them cry, let them throw tantrums but do not show that you are affected. The situation will not last long that way because the child will see that it does not do her any good. It does not mean however that you will keep a barrier between yourself and the kids. Have a change of mood only when they are acting up or trying to challenge your authority as parents.

My parents realized there was nothing wrong with the food nor with their own eating habits. It was only a case of spoiling me and giving in to everything I wanted even if it was not healthy anymore. I realized later on that it was not the food that I liked but the hold I had over my parents. I demanded attention by acting up and eating as much food as I can. I thought, the chubbier I get, the more they will squeeze and hug me. Soon enough we all learned that it only led to my deterioration

My parents started to change. They did not give me the things I wanted just because I cried and hollered for it. I had to earn it by behaving and eating right. It was hard for me then and I guess for them too because I often heard them arguing. My mom always wanted to take my side but my dad said that letting me have my way will only lead to future problems.

If my parents did not heed advices on how to help kids eat healthy, I would have had a lot of health problems aside from turning out obese. Fortunately, they stopped spoiling me for my own good and things turned out well. Today as a parent I also spoil my children but not materially or through food. I spoil them with a lot of attention and by teaching them to be active. I do not use food as a reward but let them eat crazy once in awhile just to break the monotony of home cooked meals.

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