Get your child into the habit of eating healthily early on
Eating healthy habits may take a while to form, especially when we've been eating so badly for so long, but instilling those habits in our children could make all the difference to their future.
Dr Ben Gardner, lecturer in healthy psychology and also an expert in habit forming, is a firm believer in child’s habits being informed by those of the parent:
“If you would like your child’s habits to change, you need to look at you own. Set yourself a routine for feeding your children in a certain way, and stick to that routine.”
He talks more about research he has performed into children’s eating habits in the video below.
His comments come as nationwide research by UK lifestyle magazine, Psychologies reveals that a surprising 70% of us will already be thinking about the opportunity that the New Year presents to make changes in our lives, by the first week of November. The findings indicate that we’re holding out for January 1st, despite the fact that one in five of us admit that we’re currently ‘desperate’ to make a change – and that we’re also almost certainly doomed to fail.
Life coach and editor of Psychologies, Suzy Greaves, believes that the problem lies with the New Year tradition itself and is urging her readers to boycott January resolutions and just start right now, instead: “It’s not just the post-festivity blues, empty wallets and grim weather that make January a bad time to make positive changes. The January 1st tradition focuses us on one huge goal, like ‘fix my relationship’ and we feel that we should be able to magically transform our behaviour overnight, rather than implementing smaller changes that work towards the bigger goal, over a realistic time period.
“When we fail to meet this inflated demand, feelings of ‘failure’ negatively reinforce our behaviour to the extent that, as our research has found, over a third of us (39%) don’t try again for another year. Simply put, January 1st creates a vicious loop when it comes to making important – and often vital - changes in our lives. My advice as a life coach is simply to forget January and start now – our current issue has a special report to help readers ditch bad habits and take up good ones by making tiny changes that deliver huge results.”
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