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As a mom, it’s natural to worry about your kids’ health and overall well-being. After all, most of your time goes into ensuring that they get everything they need in just the right amount. However, despite all the loving toil you put in to raise your lovely kids, sometimes you can’t help but wonder —
Is there a secret to raising healthy kids?
Maybe a secret you don’t know?
Well, yes and no. There is a secret (three actually) to raising healthy children, but you aren’t unaware of them exactly. Let’s just say it’s an open secret. One that ensures your children’s holistic development — be it physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or psychologically.
Holistic Development Is Key To Healthy, Happy Children
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Before we lay down the three secrets to raising healthy kids, let’s talk a little about why focusing on the holistic development of your children is crucial.
You know what they say — a happy mother is equal to a happy child. So while we understand some amount of worry about your kids’ well-being is bound to make its presence felt, staying stress-free is a surefire way of ensuring your kids stay happy and healthy. Giving them your love, attention, support, and understanding can go a long way in nurturing them. So can talking to them, spending quality time with them, and ensuring them that you care. As long as you treat your child as the unique, wonderful being they are, they will grow up to be healthy and happy.
The Three Secrets To Raising Healthy Kids
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Curious to find out these three secrets? Just keep reading, and you’ll find them out soon enough!
1. Ensure Your Kids Get Good Sleep
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Sleep might be the most underrated activity in the world of adults, but for kids, it’s a definitive way to ensure optimum health and well-being. When your child sleeps well, and for the requisite number of hours they’re supposed to, they do their mental and physical health a ton of good (1)!
Proper sleep plays a vital role in the development of children. Sleeping 8 to 9 hours a day can help them stay active, focus better and do well in school. You’ll see a marked improvement in their memory power, learning capacity, resiliency, and vocabulary acquisition. That’s not all, children who sleep well also experience a positive effect on their mood and are happier overall.
Lack of sleep, on the other hand, can rob them of all the benefits listed above. Thus, it’s important to ensure they get their required number of hours. We know that can be difficult, but having a strict bedtime routine can help. Try not to make exceptions every weekend as that can disrupt the routine.
2. Balanced Nutrition Is Vital
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Fussy eaters can be a real problem! And we totally understand if you live in a constant state of worry because your child goes “yuck!” and never finishes the food on their plate. Ensuring your child gets proper nutrition can seem like a Herculean task!
But to be honest, you don’t need to worry so much either. You might think that your child lacks nutrition due to unfinished food on the plate, but quality is actually more important than quantity here. So instead of focusing on how much they eat, focus on what they eat instead. That’ll save you from a ton of worry.
3. Ensure Plenty Of Physical Exercise
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Physical exercise is an easily ignored aspect of life in the digital age we currently live in. Most kids are hooked on video games and cartoons and don’t want to step out and play. However, physical activity in any form can help children in a number of ways. From helping them build strong bones and muscles to reducing anxiety and depression as well as the risk of developing diseases, the healthy benefits of physical activity are many (2). Therefore, it’s important to ensure your kids get an hour of exercise every day. An easy way to make them sweat it out is to let them indulge in the kind of sports they like best.
Call these the three pillars of health — the golden trifecta that guarantees the well-being of your children. But no matter how you refer to them, making sure your children get good sleep, adequate nutrition, and exercise is an easy way to keep them healthy and happy.
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