How to "Not Screw Up Your Kids" (Talking to Your Kids About Health)
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
We've been getting a lot of questions about how to talk to kids about health and fitness. On the one hand, you want your kids to eat healthy and move their body, but on the other hand, overemphasizing these topics can really backfire and have detrimental mental health effects. On this episode, we talk about what we want our health for, how to talk about bodies around kids, and finally, how to navigate a food environment at home that has been invaded by your teenagers' frozen pizzas and sodas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of The Talk. Today we are going to be talking about something |
| 0:05.8 | that we get a lot of questions about which is how to talk about health and fitness in front |
| 0:10.8 | of your kids to basically get them to want to eat well and exercise for the right reasons |
| 0:16.0 | and not just to look a certain way. Can I just lower the bar a little bit? Yes. How |
| 0:21.1 | not to screw up your kids? On today's episode, how not to screw up your children? It seems |
| 0:29.7 | so easy to do so. I know. It is so easy. It's so it's so hard. I'm glad I don't have kids |
| 0:35.1 | guys. I'm sorry to say it, but like it does seem really difficult. So I mean I'll sort of |
| 0:39.6 | jump in straight away that there's going to be a balance between sort of the behavior is that |
| 0:46.5 | you want to do because they make you feel good. Yeah. And you believe them to be in concert with |
| 0:54.5 | your best health. Hopefully that's what I hope all of you guys are evolving towards. And that |
| 1:01.3 | sometimes has to be in balance with what's best for your family unit, whatever constellation that is. |
| 1:10.6 | And I would also say that and even when you're doing something as you know already talked about |
| 1:17.9 | how you present it and how you talk about it maybe as important in this case as what you're |
| 1:23.8 | actually doing. I think this is an example of how you describe something may be much more |
| 1:31.9 | impactful than even what you're doing. So yes, it would be beneficial to you all as individuals |
| 1:42.0 | to get enough physical activity, to eat well, to sleep well, it's you know, maintain your |
| 1:46.8 | relationships, not use too many substances, etc. But if in doing so you become kind of the |
| 1:55.2 | what do we talk about like the nanny state? You become like you know don't do this or why can't you |
| 2:00.2 | do what I'm doing and why do you need a you know a second or a third dessert. That is probably more |
| 2:09.6 | detrimental than just kind of like living your life and keeping your mouth shut. |
| 2:14.4 | Yeah, so I wanted to talk about this because I heard on one of my favorite CrossFit podcasts, |
| 2:22.9 | the one I've quoted before, it's called Chasing Excellence with Ben Bergeron. But they were discussing |
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