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30 Days to Becoming a Better Parent Day 15: Set Aside Bad Habits

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Whether it is eating unhealthy, watching to much television, spending too much time on the computer, not being active, we all have our bad habits. The challenge as parents is to not let these habits become so chronic that your children begin to emulate what you are doing. As I have mentioned before, your children have a keen eye and notice when you do or do not do something.
An example of this was a child that I know who was spending a lot of time in front of the television. The child’s parents wanted their child to spend more time being active and reading as they were finding that the lack of these was impacting the child in school as well. The parents mentioned to me that in confronting this older child, they received a response of: “You and Dad don’t do either of these things!”
What we do or do not do says volumes about what is the right thing to do. Thus we as parents must find ways to curtail our bad habits to let our children follow our examples (as they will follow – especially when they are young).
For me personally, I need to do a better job at not staying in front of the computer as much (at least when the family is awake). I also need to be able to get back into an exercise routine so that my kids see that being active and fit is important. I know that these are things that I have to work on, it is not always easy though to follow through with the actions that you know you need to follow. One of the pieces of advice that I have for you in working on this is to have a person that will hold you to the task you set before yourself. This can be a friend, significant other, family member or other person that will keep nudging you and trying to keep you on the straight and narrow.
In researching this post I came up with a number of resources that I wanted to share with you all:

 

Today’s task is for you to sit down and list the bad habits that you know that you have. Second is to ask someone close to you to write a list of habits that they see that you may have. Swap lists (do not get defensive when you read the other person’s list). Have a discussion about the list and brainstorm ways between the two of you that you could begin to take control of your bad habits. Once complete, come back and share these ideas with the rest of the group. I also recommend that you read the above articles, for some ways to thinking about changing and breaking bad habits.

If you are so inclined please leave your responses in a comment below or link to a blog post if you are going to commit to joining me on this journey so that others can learn from you as well.

Good luck with day 15 and I look forward to your thoughts and comments!


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