CAREABOUTKIDS

PARENTS: If you are interested in starting your family on a healthy lifestyle by making some nutrition and physical activity changes, here are a few ways to get started. You can turn off the TV and the video games. You can choose to get off the bus one stop earlier than usual and walk the rest of the way, especially when you are with your children. You can give your family more vegetables for dinner. MY WORD: You are their role model. Just do what you want your children to be like and they will mimic you.

careaboutkids

PARENTS: The father's role in bringing up children, from infancy on,is now recognized as every bit as important as the mother's. Parents might well consider encouraging children to follow their interests rather than restricting them to activities once considered appropriate for their sex. Such restrictions can limit development for some children.MY WORD: Today's society want boys and girls to be able to understand each other better than in the past.

CAREABOUTKIDS

PARENTS: One way a child grows beyond a self-centered world is by talking to other people. When this communication process begins to feed back information, what happens can be very exciting for a child. She wants to talk not only to parents and friends but also to people she does not know. She wants to know people's names, where they live, and what they do. This is how children first learn about roles. MY WORD: Listening to your child and responding to all his/her questions is part of the communciation process so necessary for the development of your child.