Free Your Child from Overeating by Michelle P. Maidenberg

Author:Michelle P. Maidenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Experiment

Check Your Baggage

This chapter focused on how the family can be instrumental in facilitating healthy practices in your household. The intent is not to blame you as a parent or the family as a whole, but rather to empower you to recognize that you are integral to contributing to your child’s health.

As parents, we need to set examples for our children and model the behaviors that we hope they will learn. Consistency is key! We have a responsibility to assess ourselves at the core level, as well, and take an inventory of how we think, feel, and behave so that we can be most helpful to our children. We also have the responsibility to create an environment where health is openly talked about, where there’s safety in asserting needs, and where individual family members’ needs can be addressed. It’s our obligation to ensure the health of our children and ourselves.

In this chapter, you were encouraged to examine your actions and pay attention to thoughts and feelings that may influence your child. Check in with yourself. Assess both your and your child’s core beliefs and how they affect your and your child’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Also, question whether you are effectively practicing mutual respect and partnering in your child’s health goals, rather than being demanding or micromanaging.

Consider how you think and feel about your child’s specific behaviors, such as hiding food, overeating, emotionally eating, etc. How does that impact your perceptions of your child, how you communicate, and eventually how you behave toward your child? Your child’s behaviors will likely evoke thoughts and feelings that you cannot control, but your behavior toward your child is something you can effectively work on.

Working as a team may be a shift in how your family has functioned in the past—consider how you are experiencing that change, as well. With changes, there may be doubt or enthusiasm. Monitor where your family is during different stages of the process, and check in with how you are feeling about it all.

This is a learning experience for you. As long as you are monitoring where you are in the process, accommodating your thoughts and feelings, and being cognizant of how you are behaving, you are doing all that you can to facilitate a positive family dynamic, connection, and mutual support.

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