Raising A Healthy Child

In my opinion a healthy child is a child who is cognitively, emotionally and physically performing to their best abilities and who is thriving in all aspects. All areas should have an equal amount of attention from a parent to make sure that their child remains healthy and happy. Raising a healthy child can be both strenuous but rewarding. A lot of parents strive to obtain the goal of raising healthy children, where as some parents fail to even recognize the importance of their child’s over all health. The main thing that makes a healthy child is parenting. How the parents are being involved, engaged, and encouraged. Good parenting can promote honesty, cooperation, empathy, self-esteem, self-control, joyfulness, and even thoughtfulness just …show more content…
Within most of my parenting goals above, they all have to do with connection, connection between my child and me, which is so incredibly important to have when one is a parent. The first example as to why playing, laughing, joking, and engaging in activities with my children is beneficial to developing a healthy child is that those activities are all showing a connection between my child and I. I am able to show love and compassion to them in all aspects, which every child needs to develop emotionally healthy. When playing and engaging in activities with my child that is helping my child know that I am spending quality time with them and am interested in things they are interested in, even if that means I play with bugs with my children. It also can help children learn. Learn social, confidence, creativity skills, etc. In order to help my child become physically healthy, being active by playing and engaging in activities can also play a role. I am being a role model in showing them that exercise can be fun and that it is …show more content…
If I am not respectful towards my children or anyone else my children see me be in contact with, how am I supposed to expect them to show me or any other person respect? It is important as a parent to respect your child and to visually show them respect starting at a very young age. By being respectful to your child as a parent, I think it means to talk to them respectfully, pay attention when they are talking or doing whatever they are wanting to show you, and even respect their opinion on certain things they may disagree with you on (in regards to certain issues like food and pickiness, others you may not be so lenient on because it may not be safe or appropriate, etc.). If a child knows how to be respectful because that’s all they know from you showing them respect, then in turn this will show in all of their other relationships they begin to form throughout the