How To Have Healthy Children

Turn off the TV and read a book. In fact, if you haven't finished your education why don't you just register for classes at your local school. You can get a GED quite easily if you didn't graduate. Then you can go to college or a trade school. Or you can study online and get your education via the internet. It is a proven fact that educated people have healthier lives and therefore healthier children.

Turn off the television and read a book to your children. Or better yet, if your children can  read, have them read a book to you to enhance their reading skills. You might be surprised at the number of children who can read, but cannot read aloud. It's appalling.

Educate yourself and educate your children. It follows the saying, "you can feed a man a fish, or you can teach a man to fish and he can feed himself."

Feed youself and your children with knowledge and you will have healthier, happier children. And the children who enjoy learning will enjoy going to school. When you ask them about their day at school, truly listen. Look at them and interact with them. That is how they will know that you are listening. Stop and listen to them actively. If you are doing something else while you are listening, then you aren't listening 100%. And they will know this. We all do. If you want their attention, you have to give them yours.

Having healthy children is easy. Feed them well. Take good care of them and spend good quality time with them. And that is not sitting in front of the TV watching some stupid show. Granted, there are some truly good channels for learning on TV these days, but when all you do day after day is sit in front of the "Boob Tube" as it was called in the early days, you will become nothing but a 'boob'.

Do you really need all that mindless chatter? Try educating yourself and your children for a change. Educated
children do not have children before being married. Educated children finish their education first. Educated children grow up to be well informed, responsible adults. Don't have an education? Get one. Do it today. Do it for yourself and your children. That way your children won't end up in the statistical list of winter babies found on the following website.

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And while you're at it, educate them in healthy environmental ways. If you don't, who will? The Earth belongs to all of us and we all need to become better at taking care of what sustains our lives.

Be safe, be healthy,

Karen