44 – Good parenting habits, kids and food

16 August 201026 February 2011Podcast admin 2 Comments

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Join us in our continuing discussion about childhood eating and the best methods of parenting (feel free to comment below the show notes). Promoting reason, respect, and rational self-interest is key to great eating habits. The quest for good nutritional knowledge must be engaged in by both adults and kids, as a partnership. It’s important not to enable bad eating habits, which entails living with integrity and practicing self-responsibility, which is in line with wanting the best for kids. Oh, and dates are ok carbs (like fruit in general), but should be consumed in moderation to minimize insulin levels.

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2 thoughts on “44 – Good parenting habits, kids and food”

kem

19 August 2010
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I have only recently come across “unschooling” and my first reaction is quite negaitve… the piece on our evening news wasn’t encouraging.

I really think it is the parents responsibility to encourage (require?) the growing child to do a lot of things. If you don’t learn to speak a second language by 10, it will be much more difficult later. If you are forced to sit at the piano for several dozen lessons as a child, you will not regret it (you might become the next John Lennon). If you don’t learn your “times table” by heart before 10, you won’t and you WILL be taken advantage of in later life. If your child is exposed to a variety vigourous exercise play schemes (especially outdoors!) like hiking, skiing, bicycles and even climbing, they will love you till they die.

If your child acquires millions of extra fat cells early in life that is what they will have to live with till they die. And it is the parent’s fault. CHildren are not completely rational beings.

kj
- Wes
  
  20 August 2010
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  Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Kem. Letting kids formulate their own interests and allowing them to make their own choices is certainly not a common practice of parents. Yet research has shown that using rewards and punishments on others (not just kids) not only diminishes their intrinsic motivation, but they also beget more of the same lack of self-responsibility and thus more perceived “need” for rewards and punishments. As a result, coercive parenting tactics tend to be self-fulfilling prophecy; not viewing them as completely rational beings tends to discourage rational behavior.
  
  That said, as you say, it is important to offer rational guidance in the realm of food and nutritional information. The more adults understand how to achieve a healthy mind and fit body for themselves, the easier it will be for children to do likewise.

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