My Little Girl

What an awesome thread!

You know what I noticed right away with my kids and felt more than a little guilty over? When I started tracking portions and calories there was no more going back for seconds, or thirds. I was modelling that behaviour! Now that I'm not, the kids' seconds have all but disappeared (within reason....sometimes they are hungrier than others)!


Since I started body weight exercises at home my kids love to join in too.....my youngest takes the opportunity to do jumping jacks on my bed when we workout in my bedroom, sometimes I tell them I'm going to do a workout and invite them......sometimes they just pop in when they hear the playlist

It's been a little tough with a preteen in the house sometimes, I want to make sure that I'm encouraging healthy body image attitudes and making health and fitness the focus of discussions when questions pop up. My oldest is 9, and asked me a while ago why I was keeping track of calories, do I keep track of her and her sister's etc. I honestly told her that everybody has fat on their bodies, but having too much can be harmful to a person's health. We talked a little about diabetes and heart disease. Also the more I exercise, the stronger and faster I get, and have even more fun playing badminton (my fav sport). So the stronger you get, you'd get faster at swimming and roller skating (her fav sports). Of course I don't track you and your sisters calories.....you're kids! You're still growing and you're both healthy for your ages. We'll keep up the family hikes, eating veggies, walking home from school, having fun in the pool and rink, and you'll stay fit as a fiddle!!!

Very cute! My 2 and 4 year old were copying my husband doing P90X in the living room! I go to the gym for my exercise, but as soon as they see me getting changed, they're like 'are you gong to the gym mummy?'.

In the Summer they were on the seafront and running between 2 post things, and my son was saying 'we're doing our exercises'.

Bumping for all the AWESOME!

That's AWESOME. Way to be a role model, your kids will be better off for it!

This is great. My nephew is pretty active, but now he'll come into my room and grab my old 3lb weights and do shoulder presses. He grunts and says hes going to get super strong like his daddy and his auntie. So adorable.