05 July 2018

Raising Happy, Healthy & Well-Rounded Children

Raising Happy, Healthy & Well-Rounded Children

Every mom only ever wants the best for their children. But whether you realize it or not, this is often so much harder to achieve than you could ever imagine. A lot of the time, you tend to just go along with parenting - much like you do with anything else in life. You find your feet and you just try to get through each and every day. However, this isn’t always going to allow you to bring your children up to the best of your abilities. Instead, you need to set intentions with your parenting. If you want to raise happy, healthy, and well-rounded children, not only do you need to set boundaries, but you also need to work through five key areas, as shown below.

Create A Supportive Family Environment

So first of all, you’re going to want to make sure that the environment you bring your children up in is just right. This is something that we don’t always think about, but it really does contribute to how your children can grow. So make sure that you’re being a supportive parent, and that your home environment is welcoming, positive, and encouraging. This is often hard when you’re stressed out in life, but if you want the best for your children, you really have to focus on this.

Let Them Choose Their Path

As a step on from that, you’re also going to want to make sure that you let your children be themselves. Sometimes parents can take the above point too far. You want the best for your children so much that you push your desires on them. But this only ever suppresses your child. So it’s always going to be important to let them decide on their life for themselves. You will need to guide them and keep them on track, but ultimately, the choice should be theirs.

Focus On A Happy Childhood

Focus On A Happy Childhood

Next, you’re going to want to make sure that they just have a happy childhood. So think about days out, playdates, having a pet - there’s more info on that here - and just anything else that makes their life enjoyable. Remember, they’re only a kid once, so just make sure that they enjoy their childhood.

Support Their Growth

From here, you’re then going to want to make sure that you’re caring for their health. Diet and exercise is so important. If you’re not too sure on this, there are details here on the best nutrition for kids. Then you can ensure that they’re going into a healthy adult.

Encourage Their Strengths & Interests

Finally, you should also ensure that you’re doing what you can to nurture their strengths. This can involve things that they’re good at in school - whether that’s academics or sports or arts or anything else. This is a great way to help them figure out what they want to do with their futures. But that’s not all, you’ll also want to make sure that they’re pursuing their interests too, as these could also lead on to something. Then you will find that they’re not only happy and healthy, but they’re well-rounded too.

8 comments:

  1. Focusing on contentment is the right move....

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  2. Yes let them choose their path but guide them to the right one...

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  3. Your picture reminds me of being little & playing in the woods...

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  4. "They are only a kid once" that hits me hard cause it's easy to forget & admit when you're wrong & it's important to ask for forgiveness & say I'm sorry I was wrong...

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  5. I've always said i would support my kids to the fullest. I only want them to chase their dreams and succeed at it! As long as they put their heart into it and don't let failure stop them i will forever be their biggest cheerleader! I love my girls!

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  6. Letting kids be kids is important. Unplugging is a huge thing.

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  7. Really no concrete rules in raising children, it all varies. I think that there are only guidelines

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  8. It is very important to be well rounded

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