- eating healthfully is impossible in an overcluttered kitchen (many people resort to takeout or eating out when their sink, refrigerator or cabinets are a mess)
- children model the behavior of their parents, including all of the excess
It served as a good reminder that environment plays a huge role in a child's healthy development. If we want kids to move freely in their surroundings and learn appropriate amounts of everything, we need to do our best to resist excess. If we want our children to eat right and exercise, we better eat right and exercise. Sometimes it's easy to forget that those little ones are watching all of our healthy or unhealthy habits. Here are some tips from Peter for tackling the excess:
- stop buying "stuff" - de-cluttering is first and foremost
- choose what's good and not what's easy (in other words, nourish yourself with a homemade meal and give the takeout menus a leave of absence)
With these points in mind, I think I'll go do the dishes and then get dinner started!
