Work part-time, raise healthier kids?
After my long last post, I know this one will give your eyes a rest by being much shorter. According to some Australian study, it was concluded that parent’s who work part-time raise healthier kids. Is there actually real money spent on these studies?
Seriously, I know it really takes a study or some genius to figure out that 90% of the time that a child that has a functional and loving parent who spends a large quantity of time with them in order to police things such as diet, exercise and encourages them in positive activities is going to be an overall healthy child. It’s the children of the parent’s who have full-time jobs and are too busy and too tired to monitor and be fully in tune with their child’s well being who end up suffering.
I’m not sure when, if or how the roles of parent’s will be given the importance they need in order for us to be able to raise healthier children and future generations, but maybe that’s what these studies are pushing for even though I find them a little ridiculous (eye roll) 
Handling The Death Of A Parent
Not too long ago I wrote a personal post on my mother going through some medical issues that she has been struggling with for the last two years. A few weeks ago she passed and like many children who experience the death of a parent, I have found it to be a very emotional and life altering experience. Even though it has been very hard to comprehend that she will no longer be a part of my physical world (minus the obvious like her surviving through me and my children), there have been a few comforting things about her death. First there was the fact that she wasn’t suddenly taken. There’s something to be said for being able to tell someone you love them 100 times before they die and being there for them in any way you can in order to also show them how much you love them. I was the last person to wash my mother’s hair, clip her nails and give her a Valentine’s day card. I really see more now of how meaningful the small things are in life and death.
Children’s Weight Poses National Security Threat?
Was Michelle Obama wrong for raising awareness about America’s children being overweight and using her experience with her own children as examples?
We all know that we have a larger overweight population now. I’m sure it has nothing to do with all of our unhealthy food choices or that healthy food is not easily accessible, tasty or inexpensive. I’m sure it also has nothing to do with the fact that physical education has been reduced in schools and that video games and televisions have been put in our kid’s rooms and not restricted. With all of the demands on working parents, who has time to think about cooking healthy meals over the stove or watching over their kids as they play outside? It may seem like I’m making excuses, but these are simply reasons that help to create a population full of vices that are more convenient than healthy.
The Imperfect Parent
I think too often as parent’s we can easily carry around the weight of the world on our shoulders in order to hide who we truly are by hiding what we feel and what we are going through. As a parent we feel the need to protect our children from certain things, which often includes protecting them from our own imperfections and failings. In the end, they are simply not realistic standards for ourselves and rob our children of a certain understanding and empathy that they really need to be okay and happy. When life throws us curve balls like parent’s dying, losing our job or a failed marriage then there has to be a healthy way to cope in front of our children.
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