I was astonished to find out one day when I was doing my research that kids get their eating habits from Moms and exercise habits, or being active in life, from their Dads. Yep, I had the same reaction like you just probably had.
It doesn’t matter whether it is a girl or a boy, the kids watch and learn the eating habits from their moms. So it is important to me that I display and live by good eating habits to my children. I love my little desserts – and I show that I enjoy and celebrate eating them.
I absolutely cannot imagine my life without steamed with garlic sauce and herbs cauliflower recipe! And that, too, I show to my kids.
I do my best to Celebrate All Foods, in all seasons and for many reasons. Food is what we love when we get together. Food is what binds us together. Food Is Good. Food Is a huge part of our lives. Why not make it an accepted part of our lives?
Just remember these little things and show to your kids how Foods could make us stronger, more beautiful, more satisfied with life.
In this coming season of New Year Resolutions, please make your smart choices when it comes to weight management. Weigh out your choices among a ton of products, plans, offers.
What moms teach their kids by restricting calories themselves, leads to too many of their kids having eating disorders or gaining too much weight. And that is increasingly what is also happening to little boys, too.
Dieting is known to be the major cause of weight gain — weight re-gain — in adults. And we need to be hyper aware about how it affects our kids, too.
Maybe the next time you want to try to lose weight, shouldn’t you try an UnDiet?
Maybe you ought to look into the #CoreUnDiet.
19 thoughts on “Kids Get their Eating Habits From Moms – Choose #CoreUnDiet”
I can understand how children get their eating habits from mom since mother’s are the main ones cooking in the kitchen the meals. It still very interesting to know these facts so thanks for sharing!
It is amazing how unhealthy our overall food culture is. I’m so relieved that I addressed my emotional issues around food and switched to a plant-based diet. Now I don’t even have to think about calorie counting …
My teens and I are on different eating schedules due to work and school. We all try to eat healthy but sometimes it is tough when life gets busy. They haven’t adopted my love for chocolate yet 🙂
I can see how this is true! With all my boys except my little vegetarian, they seem to have my habits.
I love eating veggies but it is something that my son is not picking up from me at all. He is so picky. Hope it will change in the future.
My toddler is already picking up on my bad habits. I am trying to be better so he can see that it is okay to enjoy fruits and vegetables more often!
At first thought, that is a weird observation/statistic. But I guess when you think of it, due to the gender roles in our society it does make sense. Maybe we can improve our plight one generation at a time!
I tell my girls that it is important to be . Sometimes I do over eat especially this time of year. I just tell them mommy needs to get exercising again so I can be healthy. I try to avoid saying I need to diet or I am getting fat because I think that would send the wrong message. Both of my girls are thin especially my oldest. They are both picky eaters so I am just happy when they sit down and finish a meal because they need the weight. I did once mistakenly say to my youngest that if she ate too much of the desert her stomach would get sick. As innocent as that sounds I did not explain it to her enough. She started not eating very much food and a week later when I asked her to finish eating her food. She said she didn’t want to and I asked why? She said she did not want to eat it because then her stomach would be sick. I explained it to her and then she started eating more again. It does matter what we say and do. The kiddos are always watching and listening.
Esther,
I so much agree with what you said!
Kids are very sensitive to our comments, as well as our behaviors. I do watch what I say when commenting on any issue, no matter food or not.
Your example is exactly what happens: Kids take things literally, plus a notch up to explain to themselves and justify their behavior. I am so relieved that you were able to catch it in a timely manner and bring peace and explanation to your precious child. Bravo!
Wow, that is interesting but not surprising since Moms are the ones who mainly do the cooking. It does however encourage me to cook a bit healthier since I want them to pick up healthy habit. Thanks for sharing this.
I so agree that kids are a product of the parents eating habits. Even if the kids are overweight it doesn’t mean that they are healthy. I’ll check out the Core Undiet program.
I have to agree – some habits are hard to break and most habits are what we have seen to our parents – thus this is just so true.
Hmmm I remember my mom eats healthy too! So glad that I followed her lead!
This is really interesting and it’s good news for me. When the time comes that I have kids, I may not have a problem feeding them with healthy stuff. Lol. Anyways, I was doing a quick trip down memory lane and it seemed like I enjoyed the meals my Mom made more over my dad’s.
I can see the healthy eating coming from mom since we do most of the food prep. The exercise habit was a surprise to me.
My kids eat way better than I do! They est healthier and mofe variety than I. Which is odd, but I love it! Makes my job a lot easier!
I never thought about the boys learning from how we eat, but of course that would be true too. Funny how the obvious can escape you . We eat well though, and I’ve taught that to all of the kids. 🙂
I try to teach my kids to make healthy choices, not diet necessarily. I think they get it.
Typically, parents have the misunderstanding that they should feed their children more so they can grow up faster and get more nutrients their body needs from food. However, it’s really ideal to choose only ones that are good and also track their caloric needs. Eating habits should consist of smart choices.