Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has always been important to me. Making sure I’m eating healthy, getting enough sleep, staying active, and ensuring that my body is well hydrated. As a teacher/mother and grandmother I find it equally as important to teach my children this healthy lifestyle through role modeling and fun conversations! Hearing that my little ones are grasping the importance is heart warming. I love to hear my two year old grand-daughter saying “Im drinking water to be hydrated? ...Water makes my tummy feel good Avo!”.
Proper hydration is incredibly important for our overall health as a child and throughout adulthood. By teaching this importance to our young ones, and reminding them to drink water will instill a healthy habit that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.Let’s be honest we all love juice and pretty much anything loaded with sugar so it comes with no surprise that our children love it too. At times there are the tantrums for the chocolate milk or apple juice. But these are opportunities to teach our little ones how these drinks have too much sugar will have a negative effect on our bodies and “can hurt our teeth and tummies”. Children run around A LOT and naturally get thirsty. If we offer water (the healthier choice) they will drink it! If our children get accustomed to drinking water they will enjoy drinking water.
Maintaining proper hydration is a part of proper health. Drinking enough water keeps you hydrated. And the truth is keeping yourself hydrated means keeping yourself comfortable! Staying hydrated means avoiding chapped lips,headaches, fatigue, sleepiness, and many times even hunger! Thirst is often confused with hunger which may lead us to over-eat. If this is an ongoing occurrence we gain unneeded weight which is uncomfortable and brings about more health related issues.
