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Welcome to the Wealthy Generation Podcast. I am your host, naomi Jerez, your Bronx race, dominicana wife, mother of two new BFF and food and holistic health coach. I went from living a surface level healthy life to learning firsthand how to live my best life, rooted in wellness, and get my status back. Whether you're a wellness enthusiast, a food lover or simply curious about creating a healthier, more vibrant life, this podcast is your guide. We're going to dive deep into topics that will inspire you to make positive changes and elevate not only your well-being but those of generations before and after you. Stay tuned for exciting conversations, expert interviews and a whole lot of inspiration that will lead to action. Welcome to the Wealthy, wellthy Generation Podcast with me, your host, naomi Jerez. Welcome back to Wealthy Generation Podcast. That is WELLTHY.
Speaker 1:There's a lot going on in this episode today. Number one I am recording in my robe on my bed, with my blankets over me, with a lamp on and my laptop on my pillow, and I am holding my mic. I just had to paint this picture for you. I am also kind of whispering. I'm not talking in my regular louder voice because it is currently almost 9 pm here in New York and this is when I'm recording this lovely episode for you. So I don't know if my neighbors are sleeping. I just feel like it's inappropriate to talk so loud at this time in a bedroom. So that's one. Two it is absolutely pouring outside, so if it gets loud or you hear some random noise in the back, it's probably the rain slamming against the window, because there is one next to me. So that's, I guess, story or disclaimer number two, because it is just pouring outside and it gets loud at some points and at other points it just quiet down. Now I have a very, very, very good topic for you today, but before we get into that, I'm going to share with you why I am recording this podcast at almost 9 pm the night before it's supposed to drop, and that's because I was last week.
Speaker 1:I was in Las Vegas at my mastermind event. I am part of a business mastermind, so that's very exciting. I was planning out a lot of things for my business. I was reviewing a lot of things. I was deciding what I wanted to focus on for at least the next six months and what my business needs right now. What's my clients need right now, what my audience needs from now all of that in my community like you. What? How can I better serve you? That's a lot of what I was doing out there.
Speaker 1:In addition to, I also went to the Bad Bunny concert because it just so happened that Bad Bunny had his concert in Las Vegas at the same on the same day as my birthday. So to me it was kind of a no, a no brainer that I was going to go, because I love concerts and I really love Bad Bunny and I always find that seeing shows in Vegas make it extra fun. And when I shared with my friends, silvia and Soledad, about what was happening back in October, when he announced his concert dates and he announced when the presale was happening, which was in October of 2023. They did not blink or hesitate or hold a breath. They were just like, yeah, let's go, let's do it, so you don't need to ask me twice. I was like my party is going to be this concert and it's going to be so much fun. And it was, needless to say, I usually try and record my podcast like a week in advance, but I was out there so I didn't get the time to do that and, to be honest with you, I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to talk about, but now I really, really, really do. That's one. Two, I was going to record this podcast during the day today.
Speaker 1:Earlier in the day, however, I spontaneously decided to go to my son's field trip. A few meetings moved throughout my day and I was on the train with him taking him to school. He was begging me to go, and then I checked my email and all my meetings moved around and I was like, yeah, I'll go with you, trust me, it wasn't that simple for me to make that decision, but I figured that you know, my son had been asking me and he was really upset that I couldn't go. And then, when I checked with the teachers and when I told him that I was going to go, he got super, super happy and I realized that that was the right decision for me to make, instead of coming home and working on my business at the time. I wanted to, because what was most important is for me to be present for him, and I can't get that time back right Like we had that experience. We went to the museum, I shaperoned his trip, and here I am recording this for my community, for my people, for my clients, for my business. Right and I'm still doing it. Am I doing it at an ideal time? Absolutely not. Is it getting done 100%?
Speaker 1:But there's a lot of feelings that come up and I wrote all about it in a post on Instagram. Whether you're listening to this when it drops or later on is a post where my son is laying on the floor and it's like it's just him on the floor. It's kind of gray around him, if you want to find it. But I had a lot of feelings come up of guilt, of shame, of embarrassment, of feeling like I'm letting my business down, feeling like if I didn't go, I would let my son down.
Speaker 1:These decisions, when you're passionate about many things or two things that are kind of tugging at you, are never quite easy and the feelings don't necessarily feel right because, although I knew that it was the right decision to go on my son's field trip and everything was going to be fine and I still got everything done, it doesn't mean that I was 100% okay with it from the start. I actually started crying on the train as I came to terms with the right decision. That was that I needed to take and it's just such a I don't know if it's at Noxymoron or what is it. But it's such a mind fuck, if you will, when you know that that's the right thing to do, you know that you want to be present with your kids or whatever decision is that you need to make, and it doesn't feel good, it doesn't feel exciting immediately. You just have to process a lot of emotions and I feel like oftentimes we stop ourselves from taking some sort of action or when we take action, we feel like it's wrong because the feelings kind of don't match. And I just want to reassure you that it doesn't mean that anything's wrong. It doesn't mean that anything's wrong with your decision or with you or the situation or anything like that is just really that we're human and we have many emotions at once.
Speaker 1:Right, and as part of my business growth, it has been trusting myself that I will get what I want to get done done, even if it doesn't seem ideal is just how I work, like I will always get something done. At the same time, obviously, like I'm a food and holistic health coach, I am mindful about my overall health and how it's being like implicated in whatever decisions I make, and relationships and my family is part of my health too. So how are they being affected or not affected by what's happening? So that was a super long introduction. I just really wanted to paint a picture for you as to how this episode is coming about. I feel I didn't feel right to me to just jump straight into what I wanted to talk about today without really explaining how I got here, because how I got to the point of recording this episode because it is part of the journey it is very important to me, is not?
Speaker 1:I don't want it to ever seem like it's so easy for me or I don't have any drama about things or I always get things done yeah, those things are true but also like I have to do a lot of work to get to these places. I have to ask for a lot of support. I have to do a lot of mindset work. I have to go through my own feelings and cry on the New York City public train. Often I cried on the train going. I cried on the train back, like today has been. I cried at the restaurant where I went to go have breakfast. I went to the church and I don't think I cried there, but there has been a lot of processing of emotions today. Okay, so you don't even know what I'm gonna talk about yet, but I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 1:So what I wanna talk about today is how I've, as a health coach right, how I've handled my kids eating outside, whether it's at restaurants or in family members' houses, and this can be a very a topic full of, like tension and resistance and like what's another word I'm looking for. It's along the lines of tension, but I'll just keep it moving, like friction maybe. Even it has happened to me throughout my journey with family members when my kids go to their houses, or the way I have kind of guided my kids in when we eat out at restaurants, and I've had to do a lot of growth around this area because I've had to set a lot of boundaries with family members right. So I just wanna give you a few of the tips that have helped me along the way in the journey of trying to educate my kids on food and how they feel, and also trying to explain that to older generations and how to handle my own feelings about it. And all of that Because the truth is that this podcast is called Wealthy Generation.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I am very passionate and one of my values are helping not only helping myself and helping you, but also having that ripple effect of our success or our knowledge and our healing being dispersed to other generations, whether that's the ones before us or after us, like our children, nieces and nephews or whoever. It is okay. So I know that I would have a lot of tension when I used to bring my kids to certain family members' homes, because the thing is that at least in my family and I feel like this is true for a lot of first gen immigrant families where we show love through food right, that's one we get together, people cook for you, we go. Maybe it's part of your family too that you go out to eat together and it's just part of community building. It's just part of showing each other love, and sometimes that is more important than what you're eating itself, because you are feeding a different part of your holistic health. When you are in community, when you are surrounded by people you love and who love you, and you're spending quality time with each other. That is actually part of holistic health and holistic wellness.
Speaker 1:So sometimes when my clients tell me things like oh, I ate certain things that I feel like I shouldn't have, but they were in these situations where they were having social time, connection with people they love. I'm like you know what. That's actually more important. But anyway, that's one thing. Another thing is that because and I'll speak for my own family, right Because they did not have these little luxuries of having treats around, let's say, candy or chips or things like that, then out of love they want to buy that for my kids and give it to them often, right? Or give them large quantities of it or things like that. And although I love that they love them, as a health coach I also know the big implications that it can have on their health in the long term.
Speaker 1:So part of my strategy has been educating them, educating my kids. I'm gonna get into the tips, but it has been a lot of work for me and for them, because I feel like when I set a boundary, it sends the message to them Like don't love on my kid, or you're not allowed to love them in that way, or like it's something bad that they're doing. And I don't think it's necessarily something bad that they're doing. I just want to really protect the health of my kids. That's one thing. And then another thing is that a lot of these foods are so extremely addictive that I don't want to create those patterns in their brain of getting so used to those kinds of messages through food. So I also want to be careful with that because once they get the hang of these certain kinds of sugars and chemical ingredients and all that and certain kinds of foods, then that is all they want, all they crave, and it becomes a bigger problem. So I have set and this is when, since my kids have been very young, but now, like they're nine and seven, you know, and they have a lot more autonomy in their choices, and luckily my family members have also learned through boundaries, even if they don't like it and even if I don't like setting them. I know they're important but at the same time I don't want to be mean or rude about it, but sometimes they do have to be stern.
Speaker 1:But let's get into the tips of how I handle it. Usually in restaurants the kids are like with my husband and I, but when they're in family members' homes it's a little bit different, because other loved ones are there, right, and it's just not my husband and I. And it's been so insanely funny because one of my kids thinks that whatever we say, I don't know if your kids are like these two, but whatever we say holds no weight because their grandparents are there and my kid would be like, oh, but that's your mom, oh, but that's your dad. Like, you need to listen to them. Therefore, whatever you say doesn't matter and it was the funniest thing, and this has happened often and they believe, like you know, whatever you have to say doesn't matter, because our parents are there and we need to listen to that messaged name, because they need to listen to us.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I have a few tips for you. I have about six tips that we're gonna get into. Okay, the first one is, I think, the most important one. The first two tips are the most important one and it has nothing to do with family members or restaurants. It has everything to do with your kid or your younger loved one. Right. Number one is to teach them how to listen to their body. Okay, this is super important because, although I want to protect my kid from eating certain kinds of foods or overindulging or anything like that, because I know exactly what's gonna happen, I cannot protect my kid from these kinds of experiences all the time, because if we know something as grown as humans is that sometimes we just don't get it. Until we go through the experience ourselves, we just don't.
Speaker 1:So I've let my kid eat as much candy as he wants. I've let them eat as many cookies and pieces of cake as he wants. I've let them do that. Why? Because eventually I know that their stomach is gonna hurt and they're not gonna feel well. And I don't shame them, of course I don't. I just try and help them build a connection, right? Because I bet, I can bet, that some of us don't even know why certain symptoms we get certain symptoms or we don't feel well. And if you build the self-awareness, you can most likely pinpoint why you're not feeling well. So I teach them how to listen to their body, and I need for you to also learn how to listen to your body, because it's kind of really hard to teach somebody to do that when you don't know how to do that for yourself, right?
Speaker 1:So, for example, if my kid over indulged and then they came to me and they're like oh, mommy, you know my stomach is hurting, I don't feel well, I feel kind of sick, then I try to explain to them that there is a connection with how they eat and what they eat and how they feel Right. And I might point out, hey, like, maybe you had too many pieces of candy or too many pieces of this, so next time maybe you just want to have less, and that's it. You know like, not don't have nothing at all, it's just maybe have a little bit less. And then there were times where my kid wanted to do the same thing again. And I would remind them hey, puppy, you remember last time you had three pieces of cake? Your belly hurt, do you remember? And the most likely they're like yeah, yeah, I remember that. And then I'm like okay, well, what about if this time you just had one piece of cake and if you really want another one, maybe we can take that piece home for later. That's all, that is it. Or let's say, sometimes there's a cookie and the cookies really big, is not like one of these small cookies. And I would tell them I'm like hey, what about if we cut this cookie in half and you have half now and maybe you'll have half later or after you have a few bites? See how you feel and see if you need to finish the cookie? Right, and I'm not placing restrictions.
Speaker 1:What I want my kid to learn is how to listen to their body. That is it. So there has been times where my kid has taken three bites of cake and they're like okay, I'm done, like I've had enough, or they finished all the cake Right, or they finished whatever it is. The point is to teach them self awareness, to teach them that it's okay, not like if they listened to their palate, if they listened to their body, and they're totally satisfied with two bites, that they're not forced to finish it. And that's so powerful. That is so powerful for you to teach your kid how to listen to themselves and how to take care of their body and how to advocate for that as well. And my kid. One day I told him you know they were going to a family member's house and I was like you know, I'm going to talk to a family member because sometimes they have just a lot of stuff around and I know you love to eat all of it, but I know it doesn't make you feel good and all this. And you know what he told me. He was like, mommy, I can just tell my family member, but no, thank you that I'm going to listen to my body. You don't even know. You don't even know how proud that made me, because they were listening to themselves, they were communicating, they were willing to communicate with the other family member and they were willing to take really good care of themselves, and that made me so proud.
Speaker 1:And that goes straight into tip number two, which is begin to educate them at home about food. Begin to teach them about food labels, begin to teach them about what's in food. Begin to teach them about what is food that nourishes your body versus what's a treat that is fun food. This is language that I use with my own children, and we've had tons of conversations about food and I always like to tell them that there's a difference between food that nourishes our body and that is needed for us to feel well and to heal and to grow, especially for them. They're growing, their brain is growing, their body is growing, their hormones are developing and there's just so many things happening in their little bodies. They need appropriate energy, they need appropriate nutrients, vitamins, minerals, proteins, the sugars like carbohydrates, fats, like they need, really need all of these things to develop to grow well, right? So I like to teach them that there are foods that are meant for that. And then there are such fun foods. There's donuts and there's ice cream and there's candy and there's all these fun treats that they also can indulge in. But there is a time and a place, and there is also quantities right, there are appropriate.
Speaker 1:And by giving them the knowledge to be able to read ingredients, to be able to pick between one product versus the next, to be able to know which one is going to help them thrive versus not, that is giving them power. That is giving them education, the same way you would educate them about anything else like stranger, danger and money and going to college and getting a good career. This is pivotal information for them, because if they're not well, they cannot do the rest. Okay, and again, I encourage you in order for you to do this for them, you need to do it for yourself first, because one thing that is true is that kids will listen more when they see you taking action than when you're just talking to them. If your actions are not matching your words, they are not going to listen or to pay attention, because they are observing you and what you're doing. So oftentimes, when I hear parents say, oh yeah, I might teach my kids how to eat vegetables, but you don't eat not one vegetable. It ain't going to last long. You can now fool your kid for too long, trust me. So this is why they say that it is a growth journey for the parent to and we grow right alongside with them, because we obviously one of the goals is to make them a better person, to give them extra tools and all that, but then that forces us to grow. It forces us to grow as well. So, literally, the first two tips that I am offering you is all about empowering your kid, your little friend, your little niece or nephew, your little person, your little human. This is what I would love for you to help them do. Empower them by giving them knowledge, empower them by teaching them self awareness. Okay, let's keep it moving.
Speaker 1:I have a tip for restaurants that I used to do, often all the time, with my kids, especially before they knew how to read. If you are a parent or you hang out with little ones, you know that there is a dramatic shift between them not knowing how to read and them learning how to read Totally different ballgame, anyway. So at restaurants, what I did not do was introduce my kid to the kids menu at restaurants. Why have you ever taken a look at these kid menus, it is full of just fried food, ultra processed food, very low nutrient foods, and often if we were going to restaurants, it was for one of our meals, right? I don't expect ingredients to be perfect, like that is not the expectation I want to have, but there are certain things that I can do for them. So for a very long time I never introduced them to the kids menu, especially when they when they didn't know how to read it themselves or they didn't understand what the waiter or waitress was saying, and I just gave them the options I would like them to eat. So even like at Hispanic restaurants, like we go to Cuban restaurants, dominican restaurant, whatever, and the kids menu was like burgers, french fries, hot dogs, mac and cheese. I'm like no dude, like I really want you to eat like rice and beans, like a roscoe richella and like some sort of protein, if you want to, right, I wanted them to eat something that held some nutritional value, right. So I would.
Speaker 1:I know the kids menu is cute and I know oftentimes it's a lot less expensive, but especially when they're young, where you're kind of sharing plates with them or they're sharing plates with each other, there's more than one. I would encourage you to stray away from the kids menu Now when, as my kids got older, it was kind of a little bit unavoidable, especially when the waitress or reader would be like and in the kids menu, here's the kids menu, here's your kids menu, or this is what we have for kids, and I'm like like shut up and I would cut them off sometimes and I would be like, no, thank you, like we don't do kids menu. Later on they got a hang of it and they knew there was a kids menu. But even around the kids menu I would set boundaries and I'm like you can choose between this, this and this, right? And another thing I would do is I would avoid double fried food plates.
Speaker 1:For example, if it was chicken tenders and french fries, I would try to make one of them not fried, so they were not having double fried things. Usually they always wanted the french fries. So most of the time I would always ask if we can get grilled chicken instead with the dipping sauce. They love barbecue, sure, but I would always tell them let's get the grilled chicken with the french fries if you wanted. And if they really wanted the chicken tenders, then maybe there was another side that they could have, like some fruit or like broccoli or something like that, but in general, that was the type of rules, or those are the type of rules I like to use at the restaurants and in terms of drinks, I often most of the time every once in a while they'll like get a juice, but 90% of the time I order them salts or water with lemon, and they're super happy about that. They don't even really know the difference and the waiter or waitress would always be like we have Coke, sprite, pink lemonade, da, da, da, da. And I'd be like, nope, just seltzer sparkling water with lime is okay. And they'd be like they drink that, like they would always be so surprised and I'd be like, yeah, like that's totally cool. Okay, let's move on. Number tip number four is going back to family and loved ones, and this tip is to communicate what foods you would like to limit with your loved ones and why. Okay, this is continuing education for them as well.
Speaker 1:I don't I don't like to do like hard nose sometimes, but I also don't think that my kids need like a ginormous bag of candy or 15 lollipops. You know, I think one lollipop is enough. I think a small little bag is fine, like a little something. It doesn't have to be so so much right. Or it doesn't have to be ice cream and cake and cookies and candy all in one day. It just it just hurts me to think of everything that happens in the body. And it's not that I'm trying to be a stickler and it's not that I'm trying to be like a tyrant, and it's not that I'm trying to be like all these things, and I need to be willing for the other person to think whatever they want to think about me. I really do and my parenting, but I know, I know that I just have a set of knowledge that I'm trying to have help them understand too, and I'm also responsible for the long term care of my kid.
Speaker 1:So something I would do a lot is I would explain why I was making those decisions right. Not because I felt like I needed to, I just felt like it was also good information for them to know. If they chose to apply it to themselves, that was another story. However, I really wanted them to respect what I was telling them because it was my kid right. So I would explain to them that maybe 15 lollipops in a day wasn't needed, or maybe like 48 ounces of juice in a day was not needed, things like that. And I would just tell them like okay, like that's fine, but can we just like do a little bit less, like can we save some for tomorrow? And I would try to explain to them.
Speaker 1:You know, the truth is that the kids, like their health, starts to develop in childhood and oftentimes, like these health conditions that we see in adults really started in childhood and it starts to kind of like mold their brain and mold their gut and all this. And I just would really like to protect that for them. And you know, these family members love your kids too and they will try their best to try and protect that. But sometimes they forget, sometimes they don't remember, sometimes they think that they're buying a better option and it's really not so it's just having a lot of grace for them as well, trying to meet them where they are and keep on reminding them. And at the same time you're also remember tips one and two empowering your kid.
Speaker 1:So most of the time your kid will themselves be like no, thank you, or that's. You know, it depends. One of my sons is like that, the other one is like bring it on, I'll have 15 lollipops. So I'm not saying they're all the same, but what I am saying is that you can also make it safe for your kid to say no thank you, right? I feel like, at least when I was growing up, it wasn't okay to say no thank you. It wasn't okay to not accept something because it seemed rude or it seemed disrespectful or all of that. But it's totally fine to for you yourself to say no thank you and to teach your kid that it's okay to say no thank you. It is protecting themselves, it is giving them that a thought autonomy. They're not doing anything bad, right?
Speaker 1:So that leads me into tip number five, which is bring the foods you would like your kids to eat and be fed in their homes. So when I would go away and my kids would be taken care of by family members and actually one of my family members did babysit my kids when they were little is I would just bring the food that I wanted them to feed them. That's it. And you know what? It made their lives easier too. I would bring the pancakes, I would bring the cereal that I wanted them to have, I would bring the yogurts. I would bring the frozen foods. I would bring some things that were already made. I would bring the bread. I would bring the cold cuts. I would bring all these things.
Speaker 1:One, like I said, it would make their lives easier. They're already watching your kid, so that was like a stressor off of them. And two, I knew that at least it didn't happen exactly as planned, but at least 50% of the time they were going to eat the food that you brought. Number one, because it was easier and was already made. Or two, because your kid requested it, because that's what they're familiar with, because this is probably something that you give them at home too, and it's familiar and they know they like it and all that. So I would always put in the extra work to just go to the supermarket or order the food and bring it along, so that whenever my kids were staying somewhere for an extended period of time maybe it was over the weekend or a few days or whatever it was they had the options that I preferred to give them available and that they probably also preferred to eat because it was familiar to them. All right, so that is another good way to just ease the whole situation.
Speaker 1:And then tip number six. This might be a little unexpected after everything I've already shared, but tip number six is you sometimes just got to let it be. Just let it be, it is going to be okay. They probably depends, right, are not spending every single time there, or I think it's different. You know it's a little bit of a different conversation if your loved ones live with you or you live with them or you know your kids spend a great amount of time there, things like that. But generally I'm speaking where you're maybe going there once a week or your family is maybe doing you a favor and they're taking care of your kids so that you and your husband can go away or you can go on vacation or something like that. Have a long time and we want to freak out about every single thing that happens.
Speaker 1:And I remember a community member asked me this at a conference. She's like what do I do? Because my family members, they love to feed my kid this and that. And I told her I said, look, sometimes you just have to let it be for your own sanity, because if you are stressing about every single thing, that is not going to be good for you and that is going to cause conflict and that is not going to be good for your kid either. So if they're having an entire sleeve of Oreos which is what my kid has done like not even the sleeve like the whole pocket, like the whole pack, like it brings like four sleeves in there and he's literally had almost that entire thing on his own and he knows where his family loved one puts it away and he goes and he gets it himself and guess what? The loved one always has Oreos there because she knows that he loves Oreos, so she always has it there. So I'm not even surprised what I see, like his mouth and his teeth all brown from eating Oreos.
Speaker 1:We sometimes just have to let it be. We cannot be sticklers for every single thing. If it comes down to my kid eating a whole packet of Oreos and me getting some alone time or some partner time, like time with my husband, and going away, then it's just going to have to be. It really is, it really is. It's just going to have to be and that's what we have to do Sometimes we just have to make, pretend that nothing's happening. We have to learn how to manage our own emotions and feelings around that, because the truth is that we're not going to be able to control every single situation, every single person or kid all the time. Is not? What's the word? Logical, or? I totally blanked out on the word, but I'm sure you know what I mean. Like realistic that's the word that I was looking for is really not realistic to think that way.
Speaker 1:And I remember one of my clients a long time ago. She her grandma, the grandma of her kid would love to give her daughter chocolate milk. Like that was their thing, chocolate milk. And my client, it would drive her nuts. She's like, oh my gosh, she's just giving her chocolate milk all day and it's going to be terrible for her and it has so much sugar and all these things. And then the thing was that her daughter also was expecting chocolate milk at home and that really bothered her. And the truth was that she needed grandma. She needed grandma to take care of the daughter because there was a lot happening and it really allowed her for a break. And I would tell her I'd be like look, it's okay, just let grandma give her the chocolate milk. It could be worse, it's not going to hurt her. Like she's going to be fine. And I would tell her. I'm like, if you want to give her a better version of chocolate milk, then just take it to her and see if she will give her that one or buy her that version for the house.
Speaker 1:And also, it's important to teach our children like that they can expect different things from different people. Trust me, they pick up on this. Like my kid knows that he can find Oreos in his you know loved one's house and he's not going to find that here. And he, he, he knows that and it's not a problem, right? So she knows that when she go to grandma's house she has chocolate milk. And probably she knows that when she comes home she doesn't and that's it, or it's more limited, or it's another version or something like that, right? So let's not make these things a huge deal. Like we really need to go in with a clear mind and see what's really the priority at that moment. Like, is it that you're getting some alone time or is it that your kid is having all these things that you normally wouldn't give them at home? It's all right to have certain rules and boundaries at home. It's all right to have certain rules and boundaries when you go out. It's all right to have them when they go to family members, houses and other times is like effort whatever, like it's one day, it's one weekend, like maybe we'll learn something new.
Speaker 1:Yes, I am a food and health coach. I really, really, really care about everybody's health about my health, about my kids' health but I also know that being under high amounts of stress, trying to control every single food situation, is just as bad, if not more terrible, for our health than what we're eating. And if you need a little recap of what happens to your body under stress, I invite you to listen to the podcast right before this, one where, I believe, is the podcast on perfectionism, where I give a rundown of what happens to our body under stress, right, so we need to have discernment about really how big of a deal this is to be. You know, having arguments about, or picking fights over, or trying to like control everything, right. So I think that, out of all these tips, like the first two are just really so important, because then your kid is just going to speak up for themselves, right, and they're just going to be so much more knowledgeable. They're going to be able to make better decisions, and that's exactly what you want, because eventually your kid is going to grow up and they're going to be making all these decisions on their own and they're going to remember what you taught them, okay, and they are going to feel empowered to say no, thank you, or to stop when they're full and satisfied or, you know, to like pick different options. So it's not and also it's not worth being under large amounts of stress consistently over these things. But it doesn't mean that it's totally not valid and fair and appropriate to educate, to communicate, to set boundaries. Okay, I think this podcast has been long enough. Thank you for hanging with me.
Speaker 1:I hope these tips were super helpful. I know that once my clients and once I as well, started becoming more knowledgeable about food, about what it does in the body and all that, then it is human nature and like very appropriate of us to want to spread this word and to want to protect our kids and all that, but at the same time, with a grain of salt, right, like we want to put. One of my favorite things is that we want to put things into perspective. We really do. We don't want to isolate certain things or certain situations and just hone in on that, because it maybe won't serve you. Maybe it won't serve the relationships. Maybe it won't serve your children Right and in this, like over protecting them, sometimes it won't serve them because they won't learn their own lessons.
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