Help Your Children Live Their Best Lives
On occasion I find myself at a Dunkin Doughnuts drive-thru for coffee. I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that my kids recognize the sign and associate it with “treats” (aka munchkins.) About half of the time, I give in to the pleading. I buy five munchkins, give them two each, and save one for myself. It is so [Read More...]
I’m a lazy person. I like to sit down. I love to lie down. I often choose not to do something if it requires too much effort. When faced with the question of whether to walk or drive, I almost always pick ‘drive’. When kids are small, they naturally want to run, jump, crawl and [Read More...]
Gentle Weight Loss is a healthy way for children who are obese to lose weight. Gentle Weight Loss focuses on: Very slow weight loss with long term maintenance Savoring food rather than fearing it Eating food only when you are hungry and only until you are satiated Self respect rather than self abuse Understanding the [Read More...]
Lately my 2 1/2 year old daughter has been saying she’s hungry. A LOT. It’s difficult to know when she is truly hungry and when she is just wanting to eat. Boredom seems to be the going trigger these days. It’s made me think about how to explain what it means to be hungry and [Read More...]
I just did something I have wanted to do for a while. I threw away my scale. Why? Because it has never done me any favors. And because I don’t want my 2 1/2 year old daughter to base even a single day’s worth of happiness on what that piece of digital technology says. [Read More...]
We have forgotten all about hunger. We don’t even know what it means. And if we, as parents, don’t have a sense of hunger, our kids certainly don’t, either. Hunger is a sensation. A way for our brain to tell our bodies that we need energy. Yet we’ve fallen so far off the mark with [Read More...]
As one of my old college professor’s would say: “It’s a sticky wicket.” More and more kids are becoming overweight and obese. This has an enormous impact for both short and long term health. It’s something we need to be discussing. But we have to be careful, too. We can’t set our kids up for poor [Read More...]
Some people prefer to dive right into a cold lake, getting the shock and pain over-with so that they can enjoy the fun of swimming. I’m more of a toe-dipper. While some say that just prolongs the torture, I disagree. It may take longer, but I prefer to immerse first my feet, then my legs, [Read More...]
